It was addressed to friends and family, written on advice of a counselor who told the Democratic Assemblywoman that it could help her process the trauma of having survived the mass shooting on October 1, 2017. On Monday, she read that letter publicly for the first time; detailing how her husband Truman covered her body to protect her from bullets, how she hid under bleachers, ran into gunfire to jump a fence and escape — and how she grappled with the guilt of survival.

Federal workers were bracing for a partial government shutdown late Friday as Democrats and Republicans sparred over President Donald Trump’s demand that Congress approve $5 billion to help build a wall on the Mexican border as part of short-term funding legislation.

The Justice Department has awarded a $16.7 million grant to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services to help with the recovery effort in the wake of the Oct. 1 shooting, including funding the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, and victim and first responder support services.

A federal judicial panel charged with determining whether civil lawsuits pending in different districts should be centralized has denied MGM Resorts’ request to do so regarding litigation related to last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.

On the first anniversary of the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas, members of the state’s congressional delegation and President Donald Trump paid tribute to the city and the indelible tragedy it survived.

Cindy Baca was blown away by the support her family received last year after her twin daughters were injured in the Las Vegas shooting. She recently started a kindness project at Escobedo Middle School, where she works as a librarian, as a way to pay forward the kindness.

“It is devastating. Absolutely devastating, and I’m sad all the time for the families, for the people who lost their lives, for what it’s done to the collective emotion of a community and of a state and of a nation,” he said. “But what we have to do is learn from it ... it has brought this state together.”

Sleepless nights. Days trying hard to move forward. Dreams yet to be fulfilled. This is how Marcela remembers the 365 days that have passed since the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Cooking is a kind of therapy Marta uses to cope with her experience on Oct. 1, when she was working to clean bathrooms at a country music festival and started to hear the sound of gunfire.

The Democratic assemblywoman was one of the roughly 22,000 concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest festival on October 1, 2017, where shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire and killed 58 people and injured more than 850 from gunfire and the resulting panic. Jauregui wasn’t physically injured, but said the shock and pain left her unwilling to publicly discuss her experience — until news broke of another mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that left 17 people dead just five months later.

There are few scripture passages more meaningful to Pastor Charlotte Morgan than Psalm 121. Slightly more than two years ago, the founder of the Indigo Valley Church in Las Vegas suffered a pulmonary embolism. Facing death, she said the verses of the psalm — “I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth” — helped her recover.

“We should learn from what’s happened,” said David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at the University of Southern California, who assisted school officials shortly after the shooting and was again training adults in Las Vegas last week on how to help children cope. “You want the events focused on healing and honoring but not recreating.”

Tracy Szymanski was still wearing her Route 91 Harvest music festival tank top when she arrived at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center shortly after the shooting. Unlike the scores of wounded concertgoers brought there out of necessity, Szymanski went by choice.

Mike Whitehead of Medic West wears many hats. Paramedic. Educator. Father. On the night of Oct. 1, 2017, he was getting ready to be a teacher. He was training a class of emergency medical technicians and was headed to bed early after prepping a test for the next day's class. Then he turned on the TV. As the first reports started hitting the air, Whitehead knew he had to head to work.

Assistant Sheriff Charles Hank could hear the bam-bam-bam of gunfire when he first turned on his police radio the night of the Las Vegas shooting. At the time, he was a deputy chief for Metro Police, charged with overseeing the tourist safety division, and on that Sunday night, a bureau commander called him at home.

In a speech Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller lauded emergency responders and the selfless acts of bravery displayed by survivors of the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas that took 58 lives and injured more than 850.

Congresswoman Jacky Rosen told attendees of a Seattle fundraiser last month that she was out “in front” after the mass shooting in Las Vegas because of the perspective she gained working as a synagogue president while other politicians questioned how to respond.

MGM Resorts International has unveiled a controversial legal strategy to protect itself from the potentially massive liabilities related to the Oct. 1 shooting. The gaming giant filed lawsuits in eight states last week, naming more than a thousand victims as defendants, in its quest to vanquish liability

They wore neon-colored T-shirts, sold concert gear and cleaned up the messes left by others. Their faces often went unnoticed. They’re the undocumented workers who survived the October 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip, and they’re now seeking stability and peace.