Randy Kwasniewski, the Hard Rock Hotel’s top executive who was found dead in his home Tuesday, died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Clark County coroner’s office said this afternoon.
Family friend and attorney David Chesnoff said this morning that the family is asking for privacy.
Las Vegas visitor volume climbed 4 percent in January, the fifth straight year-over-year monthly increase in tourism numbers.
Home sales in Las Vegas increased 4.5 percent in February and median prices fell 12.8 percent from the same month a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported. February’s 2,390 single-family home sales are “fairly solid” for what is traditionally a slow time of the year, Realtors association president Rick Shelton said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.
An eight-car accident at the intersection of Lake Mead and Nellis boulevards will cause delays until at least 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Las Vegas police said.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option. The new bicycling directions available on Google Maps starting Wednesday supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians. The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.
LOS ANGELES — If the “American Idol” judges hold sway over viewers, contestants Katie Stevens, Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly should be nervous about making it into the top 12. The three received uniformly negative comments from the judging panel after performing Tuesday night, while the other five female singers all hit high notes.
“How sweet it is. How sweet it is. And it really is.”
That’s how former Nevada Sen. Richard Bryan, a long-time foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, opened his “keynote eulogy” Tuesday night at the project’s mock wake at the Palms. Bryan pumped his fists in victory as more than 100 anti-Yucca activists cheered and the “Rocky” movie theme blared inside the ghostbar at the top of the resort.
Megan Wasiak could have been one of the top goal scorers in Southern Nevada this season.