President Donald Trump rallies supporters on the Carson Metropolis Airport on Oct. 18, 2020. Isaac Hoops/The Nevada Unbiased.
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Former President Donald Trump is headed again to Nevada for a normal election marketing campaign rally subsequent weekend to spice up Republican candidates, together with U.S. Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial candidate Joe Lombardo.
The rally is scheduled for Oct. 8, and will probably be held on the Minden-Tahoe Airport alongside Laxalt, Lombardo and “all the Nevada Trump ticket,” in accordance with an advisory issued on Friday. It marks Trump’s second go to to the state this yr, after the previous president got here to Las Vegas in July for an occasion additionally aimed toward boosting Laxalt and Lombardo.
The rally will coincide with the deliberate mass mailing out of ballots to most rural counties (together with Douglas County, which homes Minden) in Nevada, and two weeks earlier than the beginning of early voting.
Trump held a marketing campaign rally on the Minden airport in 2020, after earlier makes an attempt by the president’s marketing campaign to carry rallies at airports in Las Vegas and Reno had been rebuffed by officers citing Nevada’s at-the-time ban on gatherings of greater than 50 folks through the top of the COVID-19 pandemic. Roughly 5,000 folks attended that rally.
President Joe Biden narrowly received Nevada within the 2020 presidential race, defeating Trump by about 33,000 votes out of greater than 1.4 million votes forged.
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Latest polling reveals that Lombardo and Laxalt are locked in tight races with their Democratic normal election opponents, Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), respectively.
— This story was used with permission of The Nevada Unbiased. Go right here for updates to this and different Nevada Unbiased tales.
A judge in Las Vegas sentenced a Texas man to 100 years in prison for his role in a two-state shooting rampage on Thanksgiving 2020 that included the killing of a man in Nevada and a shootout with authorities in Arizona.
An undated booking photo of Christopher McDonnell, 28. Photograph: AP
Christopher McDonnell, 32, pleaded guilty in October to more than 20 felonies including murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, weapon charges and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
Clark county district judge Tierra Jones sentenced him on Friday to a minimum of 100 years in prison, KLAS-TV reported. If he’s still alive, he would be eligible for parole in 2120 with credit for time served.
McDonnell of Tyler, Texas, his brother Shawn McDonnell, 34, and Shawn McDonnell’s then wife, Kayleigh Lewis, 29, originally faced dozens of charges.
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Police and prosecutors say the trio began an 11-hour rampage on 26 November 2020 that included apparently random shootings that killed Kevin Mendiola Jr, 22, at a convenience store in Henderson, near Las Vegas, and drive-by gunfire that wounded several other people.
The group then continued into Arizona, where there were additional shootings, including one involving a police officer. All three were arrested after their car rolled over.
Prosecutors said Lewis was the driver as the two brothers fired indiscriminately out of the vehicle’s windows. Shawn McDonnell and Lewis are awaiting trial.
The shooting rampage ended near the Colorado River town of Parker, Arizona, after a chase involving officers from the Arizona department of public safety, the crash of a car with a Texas license plate and the wounding of Shawn McDonnell by troopers wielding assault-style rifles, police said.
The Elko Police Department is asking for the public’s help after recovering almost $45,000 worth of stolen goods.
A search warrant was carried out last week on Dodge Avenue in South Fork, and officials found property that had been reported as stolen from multiple different businesses in the Elko area.
The stolen property included handguns.
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Police are now looking for 44-year old Charles Milburn and 36-year old Stevie Loveridge, both of South Fork, in connection to this case.
The investigation is ongoing – if you have any information as to the whereabouts of Milburn or Loveridge, please call the Elko Dispatch non-emergency line at (775) 777-7300, or Secret Witness at (775) 322-4900.
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