A UNLV researcher is using the mass shooting in Las Vegas to study whether certain personality types may be more vulnerable to trauma than others.

Oct. 8, 10:03 p.m. “Sweet dreams beautiful girls,” Anna Kopp wrote in a Facebook message to four women with whom she fled the storm of bullets that rained down over the Route 91 Harvest festival a week earlier.

In February, Portland International Airport will unveil the latest additions to its lineup of Portlandian drinking and dining.

It’s been more than two weeks since a shooter killed 58 people and wounded 546 others at a country music concert outside Mandalay Bay.

In June, actress Michelle Rodriguez, dressed in a black tank top, jeans and sunglasses, boarded a helicopter in Nevada to promote a new, exotic tourism experience to Las Vegas visitors.

Nancy Lough, a professor in the UNLV education college and who has a sports-business background, said it’s a good move because the WNBA won’t compete against the NFL when the Raiders arrive in 2020 or the NHL Golden Knights in the Las Vegas market because the WNBA schedule is mostly in the summer.

In the days after the shootings at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, many stories emerged of bystander courage. Volunteers combed the grounds for survivors and carried out the injured. Strangers used belts as makeshift tourniquets to stanch bleeding, and then others sped the wounded to hospitals in the back seats of cars and the beds of pickup trucks.

Nearly 50 years after we went to the Moon, Mars is in our sights.