Happy Nevada Day! 🎉
Today, we’re celebrating the state we call home, and there’s plenty to celebrate about the Silver State.
At LVMPD, we’re proud to serve the people who make Nevada such a great place to live. Here’s to Nevada and all who call it home!
🚨INCREDIBLE: A 3-year-old was kidnapped from a public library. 48 minutes later, he was on a city bus crying next to his kidnapper — and no one knew.
No one except the bus driver.
In Milpitas, California, driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert earlier that day: Missing 3-year-old boy, city-wide search underway.
Then a man boarded his bus with a small boy who wouldn't stop crying. Something felt wrong.
Tim looked closer. The face. The clothes. The description. It was him.
But he couldn't scream. He couldn't confront him. One wrong move and that little boy could be in even more danger.
So Tim came up with a plan.
He got on the intercom and told passengers: "Someone reported a missing green backpack, I'm going to take a quick look."
He started walking the aisle, pretending to search for a backpack — but he was really getting a close look at the child.
It was the missing boy.
Tim quietly radioed dispatch, alerted police, and then did the hardest thing of all — he sat back down, stayed calm, and kept driving like nothing happened, with the alleged kidnapper sitting just feet behind him.
He kept that bus rolling until police intercepted it. Officers swarmed the bus, arrested the man, and scooped that terrified little boy into safety.
That child is home with his family tonight because one bus driver trusted his gut and stayed cool under pressure.
He's not a cop. He's not a hero who was supposed to be there.
He's Tim Watson — a bus driver who saw a child in danger and refused to look away.
This man deserves to be recognized.🙏
Looking good, @tjlavin! 🔥😍
The #VegasBorn BMX legend & host of @TheChallenge is rocking the new limited-edition Season X @Vans shoes that you can purchase tomorrow at 10am on Paramount+ Plaza ahead of our Nevada Day game!
Doesn’t matter if the game is at 2:30 PM or midnight.
Show up. Be loud. Make it a living hell for Alabama no matter where the sun is at in the western sky.
Geaux Tigers. 🐅
A Secret Service agent who protected Trump recently said something that SHOCKED everyone: “Trump has RUINED me — I could never protect another President the same way again.” And before you assume he meant that as criticism, WAIT until you understand what he really meant by “ruined,” because his explanation of Trump has left people across the Secret Service deeply emotional.
Here’s what the agent meant by “Trump ruined me”:
This Secret Service agent had protected several Presidents before Trump. He was professionally trained, followed every rule, and performed his duty with discipline, distance, and dedication. He protected each President the same way — until he was assigned to Trump. That’s when EVERYTHING changed.
The agent explained:
“Trump RUINED me for this job. Not because he’s difficult — but because he’s completely different. Trump knows my NAME. Other Presidents called me ‘agent.’ Trump calls me by my actual name.
He knows my WIFE’S name. He knows my CHILDREN’S names. He asks about my son’s baseball games. Trump notices when I’ve been standing for 8 hours and tells me, ‘Sit down, you need to rest.’
During long days, Trump makes sure EXTRA food is available: ‘Make sure my guys eat first.’
When my FATHER passed away, Trump came to his funeral. No cameras. No reporters. No publicity. He simply came to honor the man who raised the person protecting him.
After being treated like THIS — how could I ever return to being just ‘agent’ to another President?
After Trump remembered my CHILDREN’S names, how could I protect someone who wouldn’t even bother learning mine?
After Trump treated me like FAMILY, how could I go back to feeling like FURNITURE?
Trump RUINED me.
He raised the standard so HIGH for how a President can treat the people protecting him that I could never accept the old standard again.
That’s what I mean when I say he ‘ruined’ me.”
Here’s what this confession supposedly shows: Trump didn’t simply have Secret Service agents protecting him — he made them feel VALUED, RESPECTED, and treated like FAMILY. Once someone experiences that kind of personal respect, it becomes impossible to accept being treated like nothing more than equipment.
She didn’t beg or argue. Julia Roberts simply slid a small yellow Post-it across the desk. It said “Please say yes.”
It was 1989. Roberts was 21. Hollywood had noticed her, but she was not yet a star. Richard Gere was. He had already turned the script down. The character—a wealthy businessman in an expensive suit—felt cold and empty to him.
Director Garry Marshall still believed in the story and in the young actress he wanted opposite Gere, so he arranged a meeting.
They sat across from each other and, within minutes, were laughing like old friends. Then the phone rang. It was Marshall, checking in.
While Gere listened, Roberts wrote the note and pushed it toward him. He looked at it, looked at her, and told Marshall he was in.
Almost no one knew the film had not started as a love story. The original script, titled 3000, was dark and bitter. In the ending, the businessman shoved the woman out of his car and drove away.
When Disney’s Touchstone Pictures acquired it, Marshall reshaped it into something warmer.
On set, moments kept arriving that were not in the script. Gere sat at a piano and played music he had written himself; the cold businessman suddenly had a private life.
During the necklace scene, Marshall suggested Gere snap the box shut on Roberts’s fingers. She burst out laughing. They kept the take.
Even the red gown nearly didn’t happen. Some wanted black. Costume designer Marilyn Vance refused.
Pretty Woman opened on March 23, 1990. It cost roughly $14 million and earned more than $463 million worldwide.
Roberts received an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe. A generation fell for that smile. Twenty-five years later, at a cast reunion, Gere finally told the story of the little yellow note.
A film written to end in rejection became one of the most beloved romantic comedies ever made, because a 21-year-old actress was willing to write down what she hoped for.🌹