“the FR search engine is not very user friendly”
Yeah, sometimes if you don’t come up with the right key search terms it can be a chore. In this case that he was born in *Clinton* Iowa doesn’t help a lot, you get a gazillion hits just from “Clinton”.
This might be of some help on this case in particular, if you haven’t yet tried it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stephenpaddock/index
And google advanced search gave me the newspapers page: Title: Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints