The body of the Stephen Paddock, who sprayed more than 1,000 bullets into a Las Vegas country music concert, is to be sent to Stanford University for study.

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Investigators have met the brother of the Las Vegas gunman while friends and relatives of the 58 killed and other concert-goers returned to the scene to reclaim shoes, phones and bags left behind in the panic as they fled.

Investigators still have not found a motive for the Las Vegas shooting rampage that killed 58 people, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill has said.

Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals before shooting scores of country music fans in Las Vegas.

He may be Pacman to most of the world, but in his homeland, Pacquiao is the ‘Pambansang Ninong’ — national godfather

A woman hurled a shoe at Hillary Clinton as the former secretary of state was delivering a speech at a Las Vegas hotel, but Clinton dodged it and continued with her remarks, said a US Secret Service spokesman.

WOW. It’s a small word with a big impact, and one used unsparingly in Vegas.

An argument at a Las Vegas hotel triggered a shoot-out that left three people dead and at least six injured, police said.

AMIR KHAN is relishing his return to “the Mecca of boxing” when he takes on wily American veteran Zab Judah in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR was arrested at a Las Vegas casino on a misdemeanour battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his gated community, authorities said yesterday.

Manchester’s light-welterweight king Ricky Hatton faces Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Casino in the early hours of tomorrow morning in the first super-fight of 2009. But has the economic downturn impacted on the appetite for big time boxing Stateside? Simon Lewis reports from Nevada.

Bernard Hopkins has revealed that a contract to fight Welshman Joe Calzaghe in April will be signed “by the middle of next week at the latest”.

Phil Taylor will meet Mark Dudbridge in the pick of the first round matches at the Las Vegas Desert Classic VI, while John Part begins his title defence against Steve Maish at Mandalay Bay.

DONEL HARDY and John Allison figure they must be a very lucky couple indeed.

Sting will headline next year’s Tiger Woods US benefit concert.

Ronald 'Winky' Wright will gain the recognition he has craved after unifying the light middleweight titles with a unanimous points verdict over Shane Mosley in Las Vegas.

WAYNE MCCULLOUGH has given himself five months to make it back to the top.

Howard Eastman watched Lennox Lewis exact revenge from Hasim Rahman on Saturday night two hours after the Battersea man claimed to have been robbed out of the WBA middleweight title.

Emanuel Steward says the impact of the recent confusion in Lennox Lewis’ backroom staff must be put into perspective, branding the former world heavyweight champion ‘‘the most loyal boxer I have ever dealt with’’.

Lennox Lewis will make his next world heavyweight title defence in Johannesburg on April 21.