Bakery Examples

Ferdinand Fercos, left, and his brother Tony learned how to train lions and tigers on their own. They were bitten on more than one occasion. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

‘It is, frankly, dangerous’

Addiction treatment centers raise alarm about Health Plan of Nevada’s Medicaid denials

Ferdinand Fercos, left, and his brother Tony learned how to train lions and tigers on their own. They were bitten on more than one occasion. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

‘It is, frankly, dangerous’

Addiction treatment centers raise alarm about Health Plan of Nevada’s Medicaid denials

Ferdinand Fercos, left, and his brother Tony learned how to train lions and tigers on their own. They were bitten on more than one occasion. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

‘It is, frankly, dangerous’

Addiction treatment centers raise alarm about Health Plan of Nevada’s Medicaid denials

This story first appeared in the Fall 2022 issue of rjmagazine, a quarterly published inside the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Read the rest of the Fall 2022 issue here.

‘It is, frankly, dangerous’

Ferdinand Fercos, left, and his brother Tony learned how to train lions and tigers on their own. They were bitten on more than one occasion. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Addiction treatment centers raise alarm about Health Plan of Nevada’s Medicaid denials

Ferdinand Fercos, left, and his brother Tony learned how to train lions and tigers on their own. They were bitten on more than one occasion. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

A fatal forecast

Sin City is reeling from a record summer, with extreme heat killing more of its residents than ever before. In this series, the Las Vegas Review-Journal takes a temperature on who has been lost this year and what’s to come as population booms and leaders brainstorm solutions to what scientists agree is a burgeoning crisis.

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PART 1

Hundreds are dead after succumbing to Las Vegas’ heat.

Summers are getting more unbearable by the year, and Las Vegas is months away from having a final death count.

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PART 2

Las Vegas is tallying more heat-related deaths.

The party capital of the United States is rapidly becoming a hot spot for heat- related deaths — something officials are beginning to better tally.

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PART 3

Is Southern Nevada prepared for another deadly summer?

Efforts are increasing across the public and nonprofit sector to make Southern Nevada more habitable.

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I suppose the biggest lesson was to be who you are. You can’t be anybody else. He was always calm, confident and comfortable in his own skin, and that made us all feel the same around him.

SUSAN MCCUE, FORMER STAFFER