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MGM, AEG to develop 20K seat Las Vegas Strip arena
Years of talk about building an arena capable of hosting professional sports and big-name concerts yielded an announcement Tuesday that casino giant ...
Miss Universe contest heads to Moscow
This year's Miss Universe pageant will be held in Russia's capital Moscow. Donald Trump made the announcement Sunday after the Miss USA pageant in Las ...
Miss USA crown goes to Connecticut contestant
The newest Miss USA is leaving a white-collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that go with her new role — and she can't wait. Moments after ...
Miss Connecticut wins Miss USA contest in Vegas
A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA. Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the beauty ...
AP IMPACT: Bites derided as unreliable in court
At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after ...
Investor in Grand Canyon Skywalk dies at 51
A Las Vegas businessman who developed the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge in northwestern Arizona and later became entangled in legal battles about ...
'Kinky Boots' kicks off national tour in Vegas
Fresh off its Tony Award-winning night, "Kinky Boots" is planning a national tour that will kick off in Las Vegas in September. Producers said ...
Rural America posts first-ever loss in population
Living in a rural Nevada town, Moe Royels recalls a more bustling time years ago when retirees poured in to enjoy the warm desert climate, nearby ...
27-car Nev. sandstorm pileup kills 1, hurts others
Twenty-seven vehicles slammed into each other during a sandstorm that blinded drivers on Interstate 80 in rural northern Nevada, killing a truck ...
DA: Brockovich to face misdemeanor boat DUI charge
Environmental activist and movie namesake Erin Brockovich will face a misdemeanor charge of operating a boat while intoxicated at Lake Mead, the ...
Betsey Johnson, Mo Rocca among Miss USA judges
Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant will be judged by experts in cooking, fashion and looking hot. Pageant officials announced this week that Betsey ...
Erin Brockovich arrested while boating in Nevada
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was ...
Police in Vegas clear Canseco in sex assault case
Police in Las Vegas won't seek criminal charges against former major league slugger Jose Canseco after an investigation of a woman's rape claim, a ...
Chinese taste for baccarat drives Macau boom
In the nearly three dozen casinos in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market, there's only one game that matters: baccarat. Almost all of Macau's ...
Bill to legalize web poker introduced in Congress
Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables could soon get a boost from Washington. Republican New York Congressman Peter King proposed ...
Restaurateur wins $1.2M in World Series of Poker
A Canadian restaurant manager is the first poker aficionado to become a millionaire at this year's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Benny Chen, of ...
Fertility drugs, nature better than horse roundups
A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government would be better off investing in widespread ...
Wayne Newton moving out of Las Vegas estate
With a bitter legal fight nearly over, "Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton is moving from his estate of 45 years, "Casa de Shenandoah," to another mansion ...
Nevada lawmakers pass 5 bills in special session
Sleep-deprived Nevada lawmakers quickly passed all five bills they had to deal with in a special session called overnight by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Actress Pia Zadora arrested over bedtime tiff
Singer-actress Pia Zadora was arrested at her Las Vegas home over the weekend following a rapidly escalating attempt to impose a bedtime on her ...
Actress Pia Zadora arrested on domestic battery
Singer-actress Pia Zadora has been arrested on suspicion of domestic battery and coercion after a disturbance at her Las Vegas home. The 61-year-old ...
Police: Nevada woman faked marriage to dead racer
A Las Vegas woman has been accused of forging a marriage certificate so she could keep her racecar-driving boyfriend's possessions after he died three ...
US Marshals auction scammer's diamond, other loot
Want to own a 5-carat diamond from a Texas scammer? The jumbo jewel and other treasures confiscated by the U.S. Marshals Service are up for auction ...
Developer guilty of illegal contributions to Reid
A Nevada powerbroker who headed a billion-dollar real estate company and pulled the strings of state politics as a prominent lobbyist for more than ...
Buffett's Berkshire buying NV Energy for $5.6B
Warren Buffett has found another elephant. Berkshire Hathaway's MidAmerican Energy utility said Wednesday that it will buy Nevada electric and natural ...