This is also well above the of 28% average growth in the African-American population in the nationâs 52 biggest metro areas during the same time.. Forbes magazineâs 2015 list of cities where African-Americans are doing the best economically. 8. San Antonio, Texas (tie)
The Las Vegas shooting is the deadliest mass shooting in US history. 49 dead - Orlando nightclub, June 2016: Omar Mateen launched a shooting attack on a LGBT nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 people and injuring 59 more.
Construction Deaths. Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed serious safety flaws on the sites and detailed how lax oversight by safety regulators failed to prevent accidents. The stories forced state and federal investigations and became the subject of hearings in the U.S. House and Senate.