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Akiya Leggio

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Akiya Leggio

    Forever One Memorial to break ground Friday near Route 91 shooting site (opens the original)

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    Nine years ago, Tennille Pereira was part of a team of Legal Aid attorneys who helped grieving families and survivors of the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre navigate legal questions about what came next. Pereira now leads planning of the Forever One Memorial, which will honor those affected by the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting and is slated to break ground at 4 p.m. Friday. She said she sees the project as the fulfillment of promises she made back then. “The challenges, the struggles, the healing an

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Akiya Leggio

    Former Las Vegas officer who cited alcoholism gets probation in strangulation case (opens the original)

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    A former Las Vegas police officer who admitted to battering his girlfriend and was sentenced to probation Wednesday became an alcoholic after years of exposure to violence and trauma on the job, according to his attorney. Chandler Pike, 30, pleaded guilty to a felony count of battery by strangulation and a gross misdemeanor count of aiming a firearm at a person in July. He admitted to slapping and strangling his live-in girlfriend, who was also a Metropolitan Police Department officer, during a

  3. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Akiya Leggio

    Lowriders, customs compete in Hot Wheels Legends Tour stop in North Las Vegas (opens the original)

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    The Chavezes have owned their 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood for nearly a decade, making it their own with gold trim, engraved rims and custom paintings. So when the family of five received a personal invitation to enter their yellow lowrider, nicknamed “Dream Reaper,” in the Hot Wheels Legends Tour stop in North Las Vegas, Veronica Chavez said they felt they had “made it.” “My boys, who are adults now, grew up loving Hot Wheels,” Chavez said, while sitting in a lawn chair beside the vehicle, which was

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Akiya Leggio

    ‘Call 911 before walking in’: New details emerge in Rio mother-daughter murder-suicide (opens the original)

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    A Utah mother had sedatives and antidepressants in her system when she killed her 11-year-old daughter and then herself in an off-Strip hotel room, according to an autopsy report. When investigators entered the room at the Rio on Feb. 15, they found a chair directly in front of the entryway. A handwritten note was taped to the chair that read: “Call 911 before walking in. Two dead bodies, and one is an 11-year-old.” Police found Tawnia McGeehan, 34, and the girl, Addilyn Smith, lying together in

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Akiya Leggio

    Attorney says couple accused of entering Nevada test site with gun ‘made a wrong turn’ (opens the original)

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    An attorney for a woman accused of entering a federal test site in North Las Vegas with a gun said Tuesday that she and her boyfriend, who also faces charges, “made a wrong turn.” “It’s almost comical,” said attorney Chris Rasmussen, who represents 26-year-old Jessica Zamora. “It seems to me that they took a wrong turn, but the government believes something different.” According to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday, Zamora and Treyvon Jameel Currie drove an unregistered Saturn sedan onto t

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