LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Tourism officials say 3.4 million people visited Las Vegas in January, virtually the same number as last year.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority released its latest statistics Friday that the number of visitors was up one-tenth of a percent in a month when the city was filled with Consumer Electronics Show attendees, New Year's Eve visitors and fans of the Super Bowl leading up to the Feb. 1 game.

The agency says hotel occupancy was down on the Las Vegas Strip and area-wide in hotels, motels and during the week and weekends. The downtown Fremont Street area was the exception with 77.6 percent of its rooms occupied, up 4.2 percentage points.

Average daily rate for a hotel room in the destination climbed 15 percent to $136 a night.

LAS VEGAS -- Two years have passed since a shooting on the Las Vegas Strip led to a fiery crash and the deaths of three people.

The man accused of those murders, Ammar Harris, still has not been brought to trial. An old adage says justice delayed is justice denied but it's also true the wheels of justice turn slowly.

As the I-Team learned, the reasons for that aren't always foot-dragging or delay tactics.

It was in February 2013 when reputed pimp Kenneth Cherry was shot in his Maserati as he drove away from the Aria resort. The mortally wounded Cherry crashed his car into a taxicab, causing an explosion that killed cabbie Michael Bolden and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund.

Since Harris was arrested the trial date in the death penalty case has moved three times and is now scheduled for July.

Bolden's brother, Tehran Bolden, worries about the toll the case continues to take on his 93-year-old mother.

LAS VEGAS -- Millions of people have been awed by the sights and sounds of the Mirage volcano but few have seen the attraction from the other side.

Now in its 26th year of operation, the volcano was out of service for six weeks for a tune-up. The new version has three times as many special effects as the original one, thanks in part to a 135,000-watt stereo system that delivers pounding Polynesian rhythms from Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and renowned Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain through 67 hidden speakers.

It is an enormous task to make sure all of the moving parts fit seamlessly, which is why it takes a six-person team to operate the volcano full time. The I-Team can vouch for this because it became the first television crew allowed to record an entire performance from the top of the Strip attraction.