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‘Parks and Rec': Chicago Bar to Transform Into Pawnee Department of Parks and Recreation for Themed Pop-Up Next Week
If you’re looking to treat yo self, next week might be just what you need.
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Hotel Owner Sues Insurance Company After 2017 Vegas Mass Shooting
More than 4,000 people are seeking damages from MGM Resorts International related to the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that left 58 people dead, the casino giant said in a lawsuit alleging its insurance company has failed to pay promised legal costs. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts alleges breach-of-contract and accuses Illinois-based Zurich American Insurance Co. of failing to pay defense...
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Hotel Owner Sues Insurance Company After 2017 Vegas Mass Shooting
More than 4,000 people are seeking damages from MGM Resorts International related to the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that left 58 people dead, the casino giant said in a lawsuit alleging its insurance company has failed to pay promised legal costs. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts alleges breach-of-contract and accuses Illinois-based Zurich American Insurance Co. of failing to pay defense...
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MGM Might Pay $800 Million in Las Vegas Shooting Settlement
Casino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators Thursday it might pay up to $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in modern U.S. history. “The company believes it is reasonably possible that a settlement will be reached” by next May, it told the Securities and Exchange Commission in a...
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Hurricane Florence, Anthony Bourdain Among 2018's Most Googled Topics
It’s been an overall pretty rough year for the United States, if 2018’s top Google searches are anything to go by. The county’s top searches this year covered everything from destructive hurricanes to celebrity deaths to mass shootings. Many of this year’s most googled topics in the United States were also reflected in the year’s most searched topics...
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Somber Tributes, Dimmed Lights on Vegas Shooting Anniversary
The marquees on the glimmering Las Vegas Strip dimmed their lights for three minutes Monday night as officials slowly read the 58 names of the people killed one year earlier in the country’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history. The names of the 58 slain were recited before a silent crowd punctuated by sobs shortly after 10:05 p.m., nearly the...
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For Route 91 Survivors, ‘Country Strong' Means Community
They have the date 10-1-2017 tattooed on their bodies and have memorial walls of pictures in their homes. One woman made a bracelet out of her Route 91 Harvest festival wristband, while many others can be spotted at concerts wearing shirts that say “survivor.” They fly flags from their RVs and have stickers on their cars. About 22,000 people gathered...
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Vegas Attack Survivors Describe Year of Challenges, Change
The Las Vegas massacre claimed 58 lives, making it the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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Living With Fear: Vegas Shooting Survivor, Wife March On
Every time Chris Gilman leaves her home at the foot of Washington’s Mount Rainier, she fights the gnawing urge to turn around and check that someone isn’t about to shoot her. Sometimes she wins the battle. Sometimes she loses. In the year since the 48-year-old was nearly killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Gilman has had...
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MGM Banks on Never-Used Anti-Terrorism Law in Suing Victims
The unprecedented move from MGM Resorts International to sue hundreds of victims of last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas using an obscure U.S. law never tested in court has been framed by the casino-operator as an effort to avoid years of costly litigation — but the legal maneuver may not play out that way. The company is not seeking...
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New Jersey Couple Who Survived Las Vegas Massacre While Expecting Welcomes Baby
A New Jersey couple who survived one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history have a new reason to smile: they’re holding one of the youngest survivors of that horrible night.
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‘There's People Shot Everywhere!': Vegas Shooting 911 Calls Depict Desperate Cries for Help
Screams and pleas for help, descriptions of people falling amid rapid gunfire, and breathless questions about what to do next emerged Wednesday in 911 audio made public by Las Vegas police eight months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. “Shots fired! Shots fired! Hurry!” a woman screams, crying as a dispatcher asks where she is and the...
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Underwood, Stapleton and Lambert Win at ACM Awards
The 2018 Academy of Country Music Awards marked a memorable night for the victims of the massive Las Vegas shooting, comeback queen Carrie Underwood and triple-winners Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert. Jason Aldean paid tribute to the 58 people who died at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas last October when he was named entertainer of the year...
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After Vegas Shooting, Jason Aldean Carries the Weight of Tragedy
Aldean was onstage when the gunman started shooting with high-powered weapons at the fans from hotel room window across the street from the outdoor Route 91 Harvest Festival. That night in October, 59 people were killed and hundreds more injured in what has become the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in modern history.
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24K Sweep: Bruno Mars Wins Grammy for Album, Record and Song of the Year
Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” is giving the singer a solid gold night at the Grammys: He’s won five of the six awards he’s nominated for, and is still up for album of the year.
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Grammys Pay Tribute to Vegas, Manchester Victims
Three artists who performed at a country music festival that became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. modern history honored those music fans lost at deadly concert attacks with a tearful performance at the Grammy Awards.
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Las Vegas Gunman Carefully Planned Attack; Motive Is Mystery
The Las Vegas gunman meticulously planned how to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, researching SWAT tactics, renting other hotel rooms overlooking outdoor concerts and investigating potential targets in at least four cities, authorities said Friday. But months after Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 800 others with a barrage of bullets from...
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Las Vegas Gunman Carefully Planned Attack; Motive Is Mystery
The Las Vegas gunman meticulously planned how to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, researching SWAT tactics, renting other hotel rooms overlooking outdoor concerts and investigating potential targets in at least four cities, authorities said Friday. But months after Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 800 others with a barrage of bullets from...
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Country Stars From Vegas Festival to Perform Grammy Tribute
Three performers at last year’s Route 91 Harvest Festival where a gunman opened fire on fans will perform a tribute at this year’s Grammy Awards to honor victims killed at live music events this past year.
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Celine Dion, Imagine Dragons Unite at Largest Vegas Strong Benefit Concert
Celine Dion, Imagine Dragons and other top performers appeared onstage at the Vegas Strong Benefit Concert on Friday in Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, the largest musical event to pay tribute to the victims of the October 1 shooting. From inside a 32nd-floor suite at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, a male gunman fired below into the audience of the Route 91...