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California Woman Killed At Concert Remembered For Huge Heart

By AMY TAXIN, Associated Press PLACENTIA, Calif. (AP) — The pictures on display behind the row of candles show a glowing, smiling woman. In one, she is jumping in the air wearing cowboy boots, her hair flying behind her. That is how friends and family recalled 38-year-old Nicol Kimura at a vigil on Sunday evening, a…
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In Vegas, Pence Praises US Resolve To Find Hope After Horror

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence praised the heroic response by police and the resolve of the American people at a prayer service in Las Vegas, while federal agents hauled away belongings left behind by terrified concertgoers trying to escape raining bullets from a gunman…
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The Latest: Sheriff Says 59 Dead, 527 Injured In Shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) —  Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says 59 people have been killed and 527 injured in a mass shooting Sunday night at an outdoor country music festival in Las Vegas. Lombardo also says investigators found 18 firearms, explosives and several thousand rounds of ammunition in the home of suspected shooter Stephen Craig…
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Las Vegas Gunman Was Retired And Had No Criminal Record

By KEN RITTER and GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press MESQUITE, Nev. (AP) — Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He owned rental properties, held a private pilot's license and liked to travel to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker. But nothing in his background suggests…
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High Rise Sniper Kills At Least 58 At Las Vegas Concert

By SALLY HO and REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A gunman on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel-casino rained heavy fire down on a crowd of over 22,000 at an outdoor country music festival, turning the expanse into a killing field from which there was little escape. At least 58…
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