Men who sued Sands Corp. for Macau aid reach accord

Three men who were suing Las Vegas Sands Corp., for payment for assistance they provided the company in its acquisition of a Macau gaming license seven years ago, reached a confidential settlement with the casino operator Wednesday.

Buddy Holly lives on

No Maybe-Baby about it, Buddy boy: This’ll Be the Day (beat, beat) when you live.

Search for the Elusive Bargain

Juan Ramirez, 23, a busboy at a local casino, has seen a steady decline in his tips in recent months.

MISSING LINKS

When times are tough, sometimes you gotta work with what you have. But what are you supposed to do with a can of tuna, some garlic and a box of rice? For the uninspired, click at www.supercook.com. You enter what you have on hand, and it provides a list of recipes you can make with those ingredients. Sometimes it will ask if you have one more thing (usually something simple) and will open up an entire world of options.

Prolific author Laurell K. Hamilton knows her vampires

Back when Buffy was just a self-absorbed cheerleader, Sookie Stackhouse was having play dates with living humans and the “Twilight” kids were mere embryos, there was Anita Blake.

Charo headed back to Vegas

The famous cry of “Cuchi-cuchi!” hasn’t echoed down the Strip since 2003. But look out boys, Charo is headed to the Riviera, taking over the former “An Evening at La Cage” showroom on July 10.

Quick Takes

Everything Disney

Here & Now

QUEEN BEE

Men’s Summer Fashion Made Simple

Fashion and men don’t always mesh. But all that could change, starting this summer. We’ve taken tips from Tom Julian, author of the fabulously functioonal “Nordstrom Guide to Men’s Style,” and applied them to men’s summer staples to get you started on the basics.

Style Scoop

Sak it to Me: Shop the latest pieces from the Montblanc collection today at Saks Fifth Avenue. Refreshments will be served and expert graphologist Paula Sassi will be on site to analyze your handwriting from 4 to 6 p.m.

Couture: The New Candy Store

Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe was here on business. Jill Zarin and Bethenny Frankel of “Real Housewives of New York” were here looking for their 16th minute. But Candy Spelling was at Couture, the luxury jewelry trade show at Wynn Las Vegas, because there’s no other place she’d rather be.

Municipal nail-biters

Southern Nevada’s municipal elections routinely are decided by a handful of votes — the off-year campaigns have long been plagued by public apathy and low turnout, making races won by just a few hundred ballots seem like blowouts.

Health care ‘reform’

Like any huge government program, Medicaid — the program that rations “free” tax-paid medical care to the poor — doesn’t work as well as Democrats hoped when they rammed it through Congress as a memorial to the martyred John F. Kennedy a half-century ago.

MGM to fight Ho report

MACAU — A top MGM Mirage executive said Wednesday the gambling giant would challenge a recent New Jersey regulatory report calling Pansy Ho, daughter of a famous Macau kingpin, an “unsuitable” business partner for its casino in the Chinese city.

Farmers market at Palazzo provides pleasant surprise to Strip visitors

Portland, Ore., claims to host “the best farmers markets in the country.” … But until those hippies get cocktail service, blackjack and a Cartier watch store within a few steps of the produce, can they really say it’s better than a farmers market at the Palazzo on the Strip?

New owners promising big changes for Tropicana

The Tropicana’s new ownership group plans to spend more than $100 million in the next year for a transformation of the property, the group’s chief executive officer told gaming regulators Wednesday.

Film crews boost state revenue

Nevada’s tourist volume slumped in 2008, but a select group of visitors kept on coming — and they even spent more money here than they dropped statewide before the recession began.

Chrysler, GM aim to shed car lots; local dealers upset

The chiefs of General Motors and Chrysler in Congress on Wednesday told a congressional committee that must eliminate hundreds of dealerships to be competitive, but two dealers in Nevada who are losing their franchises don’t buy the executives’ arguments.

IN BRIEF

Hard Rock Hotel will hire 800 more workers

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