Nation Glance
LAS VEGAS — After five days of scouring the life of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock and chasing 1,000 leads, investigators confessed Friday they still don’t know what drove him to mass murder, and they announced plans to put up billboards appealing for the public’s help.
In their effort to find any hint of his motive, investigators were looking into whether he was with a prostitute days before the shooting, scrutinizing cruises he took and trying to make sense of a cryptic note with numbers jotted on it found in his hotel room, a federal official said.
So far, examinations of Paddock’s politics, finances, any possible radicalization and his social behavior — typical investigative avenues that have helped uncover the motive in past shootings — have turned up little.
“We still do not have a clear motive or reason why,” Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said. “We have looked at literally everything.”
The FBI announced that billboards would go up around the city asking anyone with information to phone 800-CALL-FBI.
Ivana Trump relives divorce from future president
NEW YORK — A new book from Donald Trump’s first wife pulls back the curtain on a tumultuous period of the president’s life, including the messy divorce that was splashed across New York’s tabloids for weeks.
Ivana Trump, who was married to the real estate magnate from 1977 to 1992, writes in “Raising Trump” that she knew her marriage was over soon after a day in December 1989.
“This young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said ‘I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?’” writes Ivana Trump. “I said ‘Get lost. I love my husband.’ It was unladylike, but I was in shock.”
Trump’s public affair with Marla Maples spawned the infamous “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had” headline in the New York Post in 1990. After divorcing his first wife, Trump married Maples in 1993.
“Raising Trump” is set to be released next week. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.
Teen charged with murder in Arizona woman’s slaying
PHOENIX — A 14-yearold boy accused of killing a woman in eastern Arizona has been formally charged in connection with the attack.
The teen was charged with burglary and firstdegree murder in the killing of TerriLynne Collins. Collins was found dead in her residence in Concho, a small community located 158 miles (254 kilometers) northeast of Phoenix. He remains jailed in Navajo County.
The Apache County Attorney’s Office filed complaint charges Wednesday stating the boy had a handgun, knife and hockey stick during the attack.
Phoenix-area lawyer Ernest Collins Jr. said he was on the phone with his wife when she was killed during a struggle.
Authorities say they took the teen into custody without incident Wednesday evening. The boy has been assigned a temporary attorney for his preliminary hearing next week.