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The DRL Championship will be held at the one of the biggest shows in Vegas this year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES.)

by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby

Today, the Drone Racing League (DRL), the worlds leading professional drone racing property, announced the DRL Vegas Championship Race Presented by T-Mobile. The finale of the 2021-22 DRL Algorand World Championship Season, the race will take place on an outdoor course along the Las Vegas strip at the T-Mobile Arena during the opening night of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Wednesday, January 5, 2022.

The main event during the biggest global tech conference, the DRL Vegas Championship Race Presented by T-Mobile will pit the worlds greatest drone pilots against one another on a custom-designed aerial race track, accompanied by an all-star concert. Thousands of fans will witness the twelve competing elite drone pilots go head to head over the sought-after title of DRL World Champion. The pilots will race the custom high-speed FPV drones at 90 MPH through large scale gates around the iconic T-Mobile Arena. Drones will be lit up by a thousand LED lights while traversing through neon-colored and magenta course elements, turning the race into an eye-catching visual experience on the Las Vegas Strip.

Our Championship Race will showcase the incredible collaboration between T-Mobile and the Drone Racing League on the greatest stage for the worlds top technology leaders, said Rachel Jacobson, President of DRL. Our must-attend event will unveil groundbreaking technology, cutting edge sports competition and visually stunning entertainment.

On Saturday, February 12th and Sunday, February 20, 2022, the DRL Vegas Championship Race Presented by T-Mobile will air at 1pm EST on NBC and Twitter.

DRL partners such as the leading high-performance blockchain platform Algorand, global insurance leader Allianz, award-winning, industry-leading drone solutions and systems developer Dragonfly Inc., and the U.S. Air Force will be incorporated into the championship race through unique, branded activations and course elements. The event will be open to the public, with fans able to sign up to experience the action first hand here.

Through the use of innovative technology and immersive, high-speed races through virtual and live events, DRL aims to create a new era of sports by merging esports and real-life competition.

Read more about the Drone Racing League: leadership, STEM Education, sports deals, and betting.

Ian attended Dominican University of California, where he received a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong passion for writing and storytelling and a keen interest in technology, he is now contributing to DroneLife as a staff writer.

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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) today announced registration for the annual Dice Game Summit is open. The event will run from February 22 to 24.

The 2021 Dice Summit in-person event was canceled due to health concerns surrounding the ongoing pandemic. The AIAS confirmed in June that the next event would be in-person once more. Attendees can now register to attend the event, which will be held at Las Vegass Mandalay Bay resort.

The theme of this years event is Better Together. According to the AIAS, this theme will celebrate the human connections that drive everything forward in business and in life this summit will explore how communication and collaboration, aided by next gen technology, fuel a desire to grow and share these new experiences.

Meggan Scavio, the president of the AIAS, said in a statement, Theres nothing that can replace gathering in person to show that we are Better Together as we connect and celebrate the art and craft of video games at D.I.C.E. in February.

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Dice Summit attendees will apparently be presented with opportunities to be better together, through go-karting, roundtable discussions, investor meetings, and Magic: The Gathering tournaments.

The AIAS will also present the Dice Awards at the summit. These will honor various parts of the industry, including art, animation, game design, and music. It will be the 25th anniversary of the Awards. Hades was last years Game of the Year at the awards.

Potential attendees will have to present proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test before the event.

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) Road Equity Alliance Project says the "Crosswalk Fairy" will make its debut on the morning of Oct. 26 to help drivers, walkers, parents and kids remember the rules of the road as this is the most dangerous time of year for vulnerable road users.

Be on the lookout for the fairy on Boulder Highway, a street with a long reputation for being dangerous for those not in vehicles.

So far this year, there have been four pedestrians killed, four critically injured and one bicyclist killed on the street.

Two of the critical injuries happened on Oct. 16 in the dark, when two adults and an infant were crossing at the crosswalk and were struck by a vehicle, the young man was then also struck by an RV.

The crash force ejected the infant from his stroller, and he sustained critical injuries, as did the 19-year-old man.

The organization reminds drivers and pedestrians as the three-day Nevada Day/Halloween weekend approaches to be aware of their surroundings while on the road.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Traffic, Clark County School District Police, North Las Vegas Police, Henderson Police and Nevada Highway Patrol will all be taking part tomorrow.

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Nancy Shedleski, 69, of Las Vegas, faces charge of theft of government money

by: David Charns

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) A woman facing a Social Security fraud charge told investigators she dismembered her deceased husband and threw his remains in the trash, prosecutors wrote in federal court documents obtained by the I-Team.

Nancy Shedleski, 69, of Las Vegas, faces a charge of theft of government money, records showed.

According to court documents, Shedleski deposited her deceased husbands retirement benefits, which continued for more than four years after his death, into her account.

The total amount is estimated at more than $120,000, court documents said. Prosecutors said the Social Security Administration was never made aware of her husbands 2015 death and continued to deposit the payments.

The administration became aware of the deposits in December 2019 after it received an anonymous allegation that Shedleskis husband had disappeared, documents said.

Investigators reviewed Shedleskis husbands medical records, finding he stopped receiving care in 2015 at a hospital in Pennsylvania. In 2017, Shedleskis address changed from a home in western Pennsylvania to an apartment complex in Las Vegas. Her address was not listed in the documents.

In mid-2019, staff at the Las Vegas Social Security Office attempted to contact Shedleskis husband, but there was no response. Shedleski later returned repeated messages, saying she and her husband lived together in Las Vegas.

In late-2019, investigators visited Shedleskis apartment. Her husband was not there, and she reportedly told investigators he was traveling the country. Later in the interview, she told investigators her husband had died in August 2015 in the basement of their previous home in Pennsylvania.

She also told investigators she dismembered his body, packaged up the pieces and threw them into the trash, court documents said,

She called and reported to her family members that [her husband] had died, investigators wrote in court documents. Shedleski confirmed there was no ambulance, no hospitalization, no funeral, no burial and no cremation for [her husband].

If she had reported her husbands death, Shedleski would have been entitled to a monthly survivors benefit, officials said.

A Las Vegas federal judge released Shedleski on bond on Monday. An email to her public defender was not returned.

The I-Team reached out to police in Pennsylvania for more information and did not hear back Monday. The U.S. Attorneys Office would neither confirm nor deny any ongoing investigations.

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) County Commissioner Justin Jones kick-started a new road construction project Monday morning which will add lanes for vehicles and bicyclists along Fort Apache Road in the southwest valley.

The project will widen Fort Apache Road between Huntington Cove Parkway and Warm Springs Road to create two lanes for vehicles plus a bicycle lane on each side of the road, according to Clark County.

Much of the current roadway has one traffic lane in each direction.

More than 17,000 residents drive this part of Ft. Apache every day, Jones said. This project will make the road safer and more efficient for drivers and bicyclists, who today often share one crowded lane.

The project is expected to be finished in summer 2022 and will also include storm-drain improvements and traffic signal upgrades.

Aggregate Industries is the contractor on the project.

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A preview of Freakling Bros Horror Shows Monday, Oct. 18,2021.

By Arleigh Rodgers (contact)

Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021 | 2 a.m.

The Gates of Hell are located in Las Vegas just off the 215 Beltway and next to a pop-up pumpkin patch in a parking lot near Ikea.

Satanist nun Sister Mary, a stark red cross on her forehead, recruits bewildered passersby to meet their deaths and the devil himself in an immersive haunted house hosted by Freakling Bros Horror Shows and open through Halloween.

Actor Abigail Fitzgerald, who plays Sister Mary, has been with Freakling Bros since 2013. In its 29th year, the horror show company has three haunts available: Coven of 13, Gates of Hell and Castle Vampyre. Unlimited passes start at $50.

Sister Mary is a performance Fitzgerald has embodied since 2016, when she switched from Castle Vampyre, a family friendly haunted vampires castle, to Gates of Hell. The third haunt at the companys Trilogy of Terror is Coven of 13, a dark crawl through a witchs domain.

Set up like a long, curving hallway with a few spooky stops along the way, the haunts place actors intermittently throughout to carry the narrative and direct the group. Gates of Hell is Freakling Bros and Nevadas only R-rated horror house.

At the front of Gates of Hell, Fitzgerald adheres to a script that she said may change per group. She lays out the rules and, importantly, provides a safe word, the only thing that can stop the gruesome show, where the actors can roughhouse and scream absurdities at attendees.

Shes standing out there for all of eternity to try to convert those to Satanism and to follow Lucifer and, you know, damn their souls to Hell, Fitzgerald said.

Another character, the sensual Succubus, played by Joanna Chestnut, is the final performance the group sees before facing the Devil, who slithers close to participants before chasing them out of the haunt. Chestnut, draped in a pink dress, said not many people reach her portion of the hall because they shout the safe word and opt out.

Im really sweet and seductive to get them to come over to me, and then I yell at them, put them in their place, and then I send them to go meet the Devil, Chestnut said.

Like stage actors, hot tea, apple cider vinegar and rest are pre-show essentials, Chestnut and Fitzgerald said. One other key step is the actors makeup, which can vary every year but stays consistent per character through the season.

Makeup artist Anna Prager said she designs the characters looks with the managers of each haunted house, drawing from the characters real-life counterparts as well as leaning into their fantasy elements. Doing all the actors makeup takes approximately two hours, she said, a process she has enjoyed for its creativity.

Creating all these monsters, crazy characters, and seeing the makeup that I designed really come to life with the actors adding the dialogue to it, its really, really fun, Prager said.

Partners Autumn and Jared Harper, visiting from Ogden, Utah, waited in line for Castle Vampyre Oct. 21. Jared, a former Las Vegas resident, said he enjoys Castle Vampyre for the childhood nostalgia it provides.

This brings back a lot of memories of growing up, he said. It was the thing to do for a date or [with] members of the family. Its always been a blast.

This was Autumns second visit to the Trilogy of Terror, and she recalled the intensity and thrill of Gates of Hell.

It was way different than just walking through a haunted house, much more interactive, she said. Youre around people who love it, and the environments just fun.

The attraction opens at 7 p.m. nightly at 6555 S. Riley Street.

Food and drinks are also available near the haunted houses through food truck Alpha Dawg Gourmet and mobile bar Trixie's.

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A sign directs people where to vote at a polling place during early voting in Las Vegas, Oct. 30, 2020. Donald Hartle, a Las Vegas businessman, is facing criminal charges of voting twice in the November 2020 election, including with his dead wifes ballot, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Thursday, Oct. 21,2021.

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For Stop the steal Republicans, recent events in Nevada and Pennsylvania reveal a couple of inconvenient truths about voter fraud.

One is that when cheating occurs, which is rare, cases are investigated and violators are prosecuted. That was evidenced last week by an announcement from Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford that charges had been filed against a Las Vegas man for allegedly casting more than one ballot, and by news that Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had paid a Pennsylvania poll worker a bounty he had offered for evidence of fraudulent voting.

But contrary to the rights false claims that Democratic voters are committing voter fraud on a scale sufficient to flip an election, the two isolated violations were both allegedly committed by Republicans. They involved two fraudulent votes in total.

In Nevada, the defendant is Donald Kirk Hartle, 55, who was charged with two felonies after allegedly voting twice in the 2020 presidential election, including with the ballot of his deceased wife, Rosemarie. Hartle is an executive with Ahern Rentals Inc., whose owner, Donald Ahern, also owns the off-strip Ahern Hotel, which was the site of an event last weekend for QAnon sympathizers and right-wing extremists.

As for Patricks bounty money, $25,000 of it went to a Pennsylvanian who caught a Republican voting twice. The violator was Ralph Thurman, 72, who pleaded guilty in September to voting once with his own ballot and a second time using his sons name.

Patrick had offered between $25,000 and $1 million of campaign cash for violations, and apparently gave the poll worker the minimum because the larger awards were being reserved for bigger fish.

The poll worker, Eric Frank, said he felt he got the minimum because the case he uncovered involved a GOP voter and not a Democrat.

Good assessment, Mr. Frank.

The reality about the Big Lie is that it was investigated in state after state after state, and not a single one found evidence of substantial fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election.

Meanwhile, its become common to discover that Republicans, not Democrats, are behind the few cases of voter fraud that occur.

That outcome is an essential goal of the Big Lie. By promoting the falsehood, Republican leaders are trying to normalize the idea of voter fraud and provide a permission structure for their followers to commit fraud themselves. The delusion goes like this: The other side is doing it, so we should too. This is how democracies die, and voter fraud charges are the stock-in-trade for would-be dictators across the world for precisely this reason.

Thats certainly the case in Nevada. This year, for instance, 53-year-old Craig Frank of Las Vegas pleaded guilty to voting in both Arkansas and Clark County during the 2016 election. Frank was granted two years probation under a plea bargain. And in the 2012 election, 56-year-old Las Vegas resident Roxanne Rubin was arrested while trying to vote twice at two different polls. Rubin said her purpose in attempting to cast two ballots was to show how easy it would be to commit voter fraud with just a signature. Instead, she demonstrated how effective existing voter integrity measures are. Like Frank, she also pleaded guilty under a plea deal, in which she agreed to pay nearly $2,500 to the state, perform community service and complete an impulse control course.

There have been other examples of voter fraud and irregularities, but nothing on the scale that the proponents of the Big Lie would have Americans believe. For example, the GOP alleged that the ballots of 1,506 dead people were cast in Nevada in the 2020 election, but Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske a Republican concluded after a review that 10 such cases had occurred. Cegavskes office referred all 10 of those cases for prosecution. The party affiliation of those 10 are not yet known.

This brings up another reality of voter integrity: The system is overseen by election officials and volunteers, both Republican and Democrat, who are committed to maintaining fair and accurate elections. Its abhorrent that in promoting the Big Lie, GOP leadership is impugning the work of these individuals and vilifying them to the point where they and their families are being subjected to threats and intimidation by crazed extremists and members of violent right-wing groups.

Can security within the system be improved? Of course. But good, dedicated people are working every day to do that in Nevada and across the country.

On the other hand, Republican primaries are filling up with atrocious candidates like Nevadas Adam Laxalt, who are either actively promoting the Big Lie or are refusing to disavow it.

Laxalt, whos seeking the Senate seat held by Catherine Cortez Masto, openly attempted to subvert the will of Nevada voters by filing a series of bogus lawsuits on the 2020 election results as Donald Trumps capo in the Silver State.

As reported Friday by The Washington Posts Philip Bump, Laxalt and his clan used Rosemarie Hartle as an example of dead people voting in Nevada to support their claim of widespread voter fraud.

Remember that the next time you hear Laxalt or anyone like him attacking voter integrity.

Another worrisome candidate is Jim Marchant, a former Republican lawmaker whos running for secretary of state, with Cegavske having termed out. Marchant was a leading GOP figure promoting the Big Lie in 2020 and now is using it as the tent pole in his campaign. The thought of such a person becoming Nevadas top elections leader is deeply troubling.

In addition, the crowded field in the GOP primary for governor contains fervent Big Lie proponents and others who are refusing to call it a fallacy. The latter were looking at you, former Sen. Dean Heller, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee are just as culpable in spreading the lie as those who are actively promoting it, as they have the ability to counter it with the truth but refuse to do so.

Thanks to responsible election officials and judicious minds in Nevada courts, the likes of Laxalt and Marchant failed and democracy prevailed here. For now.

But voters must not forget what these GOP forces tried to do render their ballots useless and tip the state to a candidate they rejected, all based on a complete fallacy and driven by self interest.

They also must remember the truth about voting integrity. Not only have Republicans not being victimized by massive voter fraud, they often are the perpetrators in the few cases that occur.

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If you would have told any fan of the Las Vegas Raiders that they would be 5-2 heading into their bye week, they'd probably be pretty happy with that result.

Going into the details of everything the team has gone through to reach that point, it makes it even more remarkable to say they're tied for the best record in the AFC.

The resignation of former head coach Jon Gruden is of course one of, if not the biggest story to come out of the NFL so far this season.

His departure and all of the negative aspects behind it could have torpedoed the Raiders season, but instead, it has seemed to galvanize them.

One thing that's been constant the whole way has been the Raiders deep passing attack that's been arguably the best in the league.

Quarterback Derek Carr is on pace to have the most prolific season of his career, firmly putting to rest his moniker as being a check-down artist.

He's seen his young receiving core take a big jump, as the Raiders were the only team entering last Sunday with four receivers having 300 yards or more.

That group of tight-end Darren Waller and receivers Henry Ruggs III, Bryan Edwards, and Hunter Renfrow have quickly become one of the better ones in the league.

They've been able to mask a largely ineffective running game, impacted both by injuries and offensive line struggles.

Defensively, coordinator Gus Bradley has engineered a significant turnaround that has seen the Raiders defense only have three sacks less than they had all of last season.

Maxx Crosby and Yannick Ngakoue have formed a potent partnership at the defensive end, and the performance at the second and third levels of the defense has been much better.

The Raiders look like a team that has a lot more balance on both sides of the ball, something that teams that make the playoffs often have.

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