Toppenish police chief's daughter among wounded in Las Vegas

TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) — The daughter of a Washington state police chief was among the hundreds of people wounded in Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas.Toppenish Police Chief Curtis Ruggles says he's "at a loss for words" over the shooting, but that he's "one of the fortunate ones who had their loved one returned to them."He says his daughter is back home and recovering.Fifty-eight people were killed and nearly 500 were wounded when Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending a country music festival.

Las Vegas gunman may have scoped out other music festivals

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether gunman Stephen Paddock scoped out bigger music festivals in Las Vegas and Chicago — and perhaps Boston's Fenway Park — before setting up his perch in a casino hotel and raining deadly fire on country music fans.Paddock booked rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago in August and the Life Is Beautiful show near the Vegas Strip in late September, according to authorities reconstructing his movements before he undertook the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.It was not clear if he contemplated massacres at those sites.Investigators looking into Paddock also came across mention of Fenway Park, Boston police Lt.

He was shot in the leg in Las Vegas. He still stood up for the President

[highlights]LAS VEGAS -- Thomas Gunderson was one of the almost 500 people wounded in the Las Vegas shooting attack at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last weekend.He was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the leg.Gunderson was laying in his hospital bed Wednesday when President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump swung by.

Vegas gunman's secret life thwarts investigators' hunt for motive in shooting

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history led a secret life that has so far thwarted investigators trying to figure out a motive for the attack.In an effort to try to crack Stephen Paddock's state of mind, the FBI spent hours on Wednesday interviewing his longtime girlfriend, who returned Tuesday from a weekslong overseas trip and said she had no inkling of the massacre he was plotting when he sent her to see family in her native Philippines."He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen," Marilou Danley, 62, said in a statement read by her lawyer outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles.Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said it's difficult to believe Paddock acted alone in the attack Sunday that killed 58 and injured nearly 500 people at a country music concert on the Las Vegas Strip.

Some GOP members of Congress open to banning 'bump stocks' that gunman used in Vegas

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior congressional Republicans said Wednesday they are open to considering legislation banning "bump stocks" like the shooter in Las Vegas apparently used to convert semi-automatic rifles to perform more like fully automatic weapons.The comments from lawmakers including the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, marked a surprising departure from GOP lawmakers' general antipathy to gun regulations of any kind.

Vegas killer's girlfriend says he left her in the dark

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman said Wednesday she had no inkling of the massacre he was plotting when he sent her on a trip abroad to see her family.Marilou Danley issued the statement after returning from her native Philippines and being questioned for much of the day by FBI agents still trying to figure out what drove Stephen Paddock to gun down 58 people at a country music festival from his 32nd-floor hotel suite."He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen," Danley said in a statement read by her lawyer outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles.

'You saved my daughter's life': Puget Sound first responders recall Vegas horror, humanity

For the first time, we’re hearing from Western Washington first responders who were in the line of fire during the shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 and injured hundreds.

'Bump stock' gun attachments aren't new -- or sold widely in Seattle area

BELLEVUE, Wash. --- The ATF announced Tuesday they recovered almost 50 rifles, shotguns and pistols after a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday.Attached to a dozen of the weapons were "bump stocks," a product that is not new or illegal.The shots raining down from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay into the country music festival is a sound many won't forget."Currently 47 firearms have been recovered," said Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder from the ATF's San Francisco Field Division.

Australian gun reform leader urges Trump to 'get real'

SYDNEY -- The former politician who helped win over a hostile Australian pro-gun lobby to the idea of massive weapons reform says the overwhelming success of the change should serve as an example for American politicians in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre.

Trump visits Las Vegas on 'sad day' after mass shooting

LAS VEGAS -- Declaring it a "very, very sad day" for himself and the nation, President Donald Trump traveled Wednesday to the city where a gunman killed 59 people at a concert.

Vegas shooter's girlfriend arrives in US, met at airport by FBI agents

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter arrived in the U.S. Tuesday night and was met by federal agents at Los Angeles International Airport, a law enforcement official saidThe official wasn't authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo has said Marilou Danley is considered a "person of interest" after her boyfriend, Stephen Paddock, opened fire from his hotel room, killing 59 people at a musical performance.

Loved ones remember Las Vegas shooting victims from Washington

SEATTLE – We’re learning more about the connections some of the Las Vegas shooting victims have with Western Washington.

Vegas gunman transferred $100K, set up cameras at hotel room (Videos released)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise hotel room and on a service cart outside his door, apparently to spot anyone coming for him, authorities said Tuesday.Meanwhile, investigators are taking a harder look at the shooter's girlfriend and what she might have known about the attack at a country music festival, with the sheriff naming her a "person of interest" and saying the FBI is bringing her back to the U.S. on Wednesday for questioning.Authorities are trying to determine why Stephen Paddock killed 59 people in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.A Las Vegas hospital said Tuesday night that another person had died from wounds suffered in the weekend shooting.

Family gets death threats after internet users falsely accuse man in Las Vegas shooting

BELLA VISTA, Ark. – The family of Geary Danley, the man who amateur, online detectives falsely labeled the Las Vegas shooter, made a statement Monday after they started getting death threats.Investigators said that Marilou Danley, Geary Danley's ex-wife and a person of interest, was a companion of Stephen Paddock.