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For a metro area of a little more than 2 million people, Las Vegas has more than its fair share of news.
Local major stories include Tupac Shakur’s murder in 1996, the October 1, 2017 shooting on the Strip, the MGM and Hilton fires.
And, all roads lead to Vegas when it comes to national stories.
Patty Hearst, heiress to the Hearst publishing empire then a forced member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, supposedly stayed on Maryland Parkway when she was on the lam. Marshall Applewhite, leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult, whose 38 members killed themselves in San Diego in 1997, worked at a Vegas casino.
The advent of Name Image and Likeness licensing is the result of a lawsuit by Ted O’Bannon, who lives in Henderson and originally wanted to play for Jerry Tarkanian’s Runnin' Rebels. Timothy McVeigh, bomber of the federal building in Oklahoma, had ties here.
We bring this up because Brett Clarkson is an editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is Nevada’s paper of record.
Brett was born in Ontario, Canada. He’s worked around the country and was part of the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s Pulitzer prize-winning coverage of the Parkland High School shooting in 2018. He joined the RJ in 2022.
Today, he joins KNPR's State of Nevada to discuss major news in our region.
Guest: Brett Clarkson, assistant city editor, Las Vegas Review-Journal
