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Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday with high-powered rifles, was prescribed an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned... Records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained Tuesday show Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21. A woman who answered the phone at Winkler’s office would not make him available to answer questions and would neither confirm nor deny that Paddock was ever a patient. Paddock purchased the drug — its...

A woman's life was miraculously saved by her mobile phone which blocked a bullet during the Las Vegas massacre. The unidentified woman told a taxi driver on her way home that her rose gold iPhone had saved her life and took a picture. The photo of the device shows the back of the iPhone completely shattered after being hit by a single bullet. No details have emerged about how or where the woman was holding the phone while fleeing the scene of the worst mass shooting in US history. Las Vegas shooting: What we know so far Fifty-nine were killed...

The CBS legal executive who was fired for posting on Facebook that she had no sympathy for Las Vegas shooting victims because they were “country music fans” told the NYPD she’s being harassed online, officers said Wednesday. SNIP She told cops that the post went viral shortly after she wrote the words. She then began getting threats on her Facebook page, according to cops. SNIP

Room service receipts from the Las Vegas shooter's stay at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino reveal his insatiable appetite - and raise questions about the official timeline of the massacre. A man who works at the Mandalay Bay posted a receipt to Facebook Tuesday night, claiming that he served Paddock in his suite on the 32nd floor of the hotel. The receipt shows that on September 27, Paddock ordered a large meal to his room including a burger, a bagel, potato soup, a bottle of water and two Pepsis. Four days later, Paddock used the same room to open...

Police Officer Charles Hartfield was shot and killed while taking off duty action to rescue citizens during the active shooter incident at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Officer Hartfield was attending the concert, with his wife, when a gunman opened fire on the audience from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Hundreds of citizens were struck by gunfire. Officer Hartfield immediately attempted to assist some of the casualties when he was fatally struck by one of the rounds. The gunman committed suicide as members of the SWAT team made entry into the room he was barricaded in. Fifty-eight...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited Las Vegas on Wednesday after a deadly shooting killed 59 people at a country music concert and wounded hundreds more. The Trumps traveled by motorcade to the University Medical Center to visit with victims of the shooting, their families, and medical professionals helping them recover. “We met patients that were absolutely terribly wounded and the doctors, the nurses, all of the people of the hospital have done a job that’s indescribable,” Trump said.

Lawyers representing one of the seven men set to go on trial next week in Las Vegas in connection with the Bunkerville Standoff in 2014, Ryan Payne, say Payne wants the trial delayed because of the mass murder-shooting that occurred there Sunday night. The lawyers cite the carnage involving the use of firearms would prejudice a jury that might hear the Second Amendment defense offered as a defense for the actions of Payne during the April 12, 2014 standoff near Bundy Ranch. The lawyers say their defendant is also worried because the man implicated as the shooter, Stephen Paddock, was...

Investigators are taking a harder look at Marilou Danley and what she might have known about the attack at a country music festival Sunday, with Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo naming her a “person of interest” and saying the FBI is bringing her back to the U.S. for questioning. Danley, 62, was out the country at the time of the shooting and in the Philippines on Tuesday. “We anticipate some information from her shortly,” Lombardo said.

Hillary Clinton never misses a chance to exploit a tragedy for her own personal and political gain. Ever the hypocrite, she urged Americans to “put politics aside.” Then she proceeded to immediately inject politics into the catastrophic shooting in Las Vegas. Clinton knew she could not call for a ban of a weapon already banned by law. The fully automatic weapon allegedly used by gunman, Stephen Paddock, was made illegal under federal law back in 1986. So Clinton invented an ancillary argument that more people would have died if Paddock had used a “silencer.” Survivors were still being treated when...

Stephen Paddock did not vote in Clark County NV. Mesquite NV is a town in Clark County. I downloaded the zip file from the website containing all voters in the county and did a search. Below is a list of voters with the last name 'Paddock'. FYI - the first date is the birth year, the second date is the latest activity date, and the third date is the registration date. I truncated the data for clarity. "DIANE","NICOLE","PADDOCK","","F","DEM","1985","","2046","","WAVERLY","CIR","","HENDERSON","NV","89014","","","","","03/03/2017","08/06/2004" "DONNA","JEAN","PADDOCK","","F","DEM","1940","702-804-5747","8640","","TRAFALGAR","DR","","LAS VEGAS","NV","89117","","","","","12/16/2011","07/21/2000" "ERIN","LEE","PADDOCK","","F","REP","1963","702-788-3811","702","","TONIN","AVE","","NORTH LAS VEGAS","NV","89031","","","","","02/18/2016","06/20/2002" "JOHN","METZGER","PADDOCK","","M","DEM","1935","702-804-5747","8640","","TRAFALGAR","DR","","LAS VEGAS","NV","89117","","","","","12/16/2011","01/11/2000" "LAREE","","PADDOCK","","","NP","1958","","8265","","WILDWOOD GLEN","DR","","LAS VEGAS","NV","89131","8265 WILDWOOD GLEN DR","LAS VEGAS","NV","89131","09/21/2017","09/21/2017" "LEANDER","","PADDOCK","","","DEM","1972","702-340-4652","3840","","ASPEN SPRINGS","AVE","","LAS VEGAS","NV","89115","","","","","08/23/2016","08/15/2016" "MARIA","THERESA","PADDOCK","","","REP","1966","","3330","N","LAS VEGAS","BLVD","APT 2062","LAS VEGAS","NV","89115","","","","","07/11/2017","06/26/2017" "MICHAEL","JOSEPH","PADDOCK","","","DEM","1980","","10639","","OSTEND","AVE","","LAS...

RUSH: You know, I have to tell you, sometimes it’s fun to watch Fredo Cuomo on CNN. Fredo has stumbled across a piece of news that has him totally confused, and that is that a law enforcement official has said that the gunman wired $100,000 to the Philippines before his shooting spree. And so Fredo is asking a financial expert, “How could a guy with such a dark heart send money to people in need or whatever in the Philippines?” I guess Fredo knows that the money was not to retire gambling debt to Philippine credit holders but rather was...

DALLAS -- Gunfire rang out on Sunday night, just two floors below Chris Bethel's hotel room in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. "I could just hear the gun shots, continuously. Just full automatic," Bethel told CBS Dallas-Fort Worth. "There was explosions going off. It was like a bomb just went off man. And then there were more gun shots."The Fort Worth resident was attending an IT conference in Las Vegas when the shooting unfolded. An Iraq War veteran, Bethel told the station he immediately recognized the sound as gunfire.Now, police are crediting the Haltom High School graduate with helping lead them...

RUSH: We were among the first to mention yesterday this CBS employee, this executive by the name of Hayley Geftman-Gold. It was in the opening monologue of the program, and it probably got lost with many other things. But it was genuinely outrageous. Here is a lawyer, she is a counsel, staff lawyer for CBS, nothing to do with the news division. She’s in the junior executive suite. And she said that this shooting, well, it’s a bunch of Republican gun toters that got shot. They didn’t deserve any sympathy. She called Republicans repugs, as short for repugnant, and she...

Country music star John Rich handed over his own firearm to a police officer who used it to defend civilians in a bar during the Las Vegas strip massacre. Rich, who is the star of Big & Rich, explained how it all went down on Fox News. “I had an off-duty police officer, it was a Minneapolis police officer, off-duty, was in my bar hanging out. He came up to me and showed me his badge, and he says, ‘I’m officer – I forget his last name – and I’m [a police] officer and I’m not armed for the first...

RUSH: Righto. Here we are. Here we go. The same thing. It’s the same thing over and over again. What do we do? We have to get up here and we all have to get busy defending something because the left is on the march. Rinse and repeat, 30 years it’s been like this, 29 years. Left gets on a tear, gets on a roll and you gotta stand up and defend and point out how they’re lying about everything. They’re constantly marching forward on their agenda, but I’ll tell you something, folks. As I look at these leftists and...

The true character of a leader is often revealed during terror and tragedy. There was unfortunately plenty of both in Las Vegas overnight, but President Donald Trump’s message to law enforcement has provided a glimmer of optimism on a very dark day. Late Sunday night, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers from a high vantage point in the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. In the chaos, at least 58 people were killed and hundreds were wounded. The president has made several statements since the tragic event unfolded, but one of the most candid was a phone call...

Late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel opened his program Monday with a ten-minute political rant about Sunday’s mass murder in Las Vegas, saying “now is the time for political debate” about gun control. Dismissing as inadequate calls for prayers for the victims by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Jimmy Kimmel Live host said: “they should be praying for God to forgive them for letting the gun lobby run this country.” Kimmel railed against lawmakers who “won’t do anything about this because the NRA has their balls in a money clip,” insisting...

(At :20 News 3 Reporter Reed Cowan)....Cliven Bundy threw up his hands in the air and said he wanted to represent himself in this case against him by the federal government. Well that made his attorney Brett Whipple file papers in federal court here behind me saying his client had requested that. The judge denied that request..... (At :45 Attorney Brett Whipple)....He felt frustrated that he couldn't get his viewpoint out..... (At 1:00)...Everybody thinks its about money. It has nothing to do with money it has to do with who was to receive the money. See, Cliven is of the...

Taylor Benge and his sister survived the massacre in Las Vegas Sunday night, where a gunman killed 58 people and wounded 500 more outside a country music festival. The shooter, who eventually killed himself, aimed at the concertgoers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. His rampage appears to have been meticulously planned.Still shaken, Taylor spoke with CNN anchors John Berman and Kate Boduan Monday morning to offer his eyewitness account. The 21-year-old was at the concert when he said he heard what sounded like fireworks. It wasn't until he saw a man next to him bleeding from...

Marine Veteran Heard Shots, Grabbed Pickup Truck, and Started Saving Lives in Las Vegas Taylor Winston served in Iraq. Kacy Thompson was an EMT. Together they became heroes. KATE BRIQUELET 10.02.17 10:45 PM ET A veteran Marine and his friends sprung into action in an attempt to save dozens of lives during the Las Vegas massacre. Taylor Winston, 29, was close to the righthand side of the stage when gunfire rained down at the Route 91 Harvest festival. He said the first gunshots sounded like fireworks, but he soon realized people were screaming and saw bodies drop to the ground....