Get set for NAB and its 103,000 visitors

Third-largest convention staged in Las Vegas will crowd roads next week

Local transportation officials are preparing for roughly 103,000 conventioneers from 160 countries to descend on Las Vegas this week for the annual gathering of the National Association of Broadcasters, known as the NAB Show.

As the third-largest convention held in Las Vegas after CES and the Automotive Aftermarket Industry, the NAB Show could make a significant impact on local roads during itsrunatthelasvegasconvention Center from Saturday through Thursday.

“Getting around can be an issue and a challenge, but generally it’s fairly smooth,” said Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters, which has held its convention in Las Vegas every year since 1991.

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contract to become his “slave and property.” The contract required her to kneel and look down when she entered his presence, be nude at all times, have sexual relations with him whenever he wanted and wear a collar in private.

In text messages sent a day

before the March 29 altercation, Sparks asked his fiancée to be tied up and blindfolded and to have sex with other men in front of him. She said the request was her breaking point.

The woman said Sparks fled to Texas and left all his belongings behind. Locke said her office could issue a warrant, or Sparks could be summoned to return to Nevada.

Sparks was fired last week from

his job as political affairs director for Redrock Strategies, a GOP consulting firm. He worked on high-profile congressional campaigns, including that of New Mexico lawmaker Yvette Herrell, and national races, including Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and the anti-recall campaign of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2012.

Sparks’ ex-fiancée told the Review-journal on Friday that she

plans to tell prosecutors about the violence involving Sparks.

“Regardless of the consequences, I’m committed to pressing charges and following through,” said the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Contact Ramona Giwargis at rgiwargis@reviewjournal. com or 702-380-4538. Follow @ Ramonagiwargis on Twitter.