Richard Nolton Sr. had a lethal amount of methamphetamine in his system when Henderson police responded to his home on July 3, but it was a single bullet from a SWAT officer’s rifle that killed him that morning.
While the outlandishly showy performer and master musician became synonymous with Las Vegas, his memory as one of the city’s holy trinity of legends alongside Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack hasn’t received the same care and nurturing.
SEATTLE — U.S. Web surfers are spending more time socializing on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore Inc. In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook.
LOS ANGELES — A judge has granted Leonardo DiCaprio a three-year restraining order from a woman who he said claims to be his wife and carrying his baby. During a brief hearing Friday, a Los Angeles judge ordered that Livia Bistriceanu stay 100 yards away from the actor. Court filings state Bistriceanu traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles and acted aggressively when she showed up at DiCaprio’s home and business offices recently.
Visitation into Las Vegas recorded its largest single-month percentage jump in almost five years during July, thanks in part to a boost in convention attendance and a record number of customers driving in from Southern California.
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Investigators searched the smoldering rubble of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood tucked into the hills overlooking San Francisco on Friday, looking for answers to why a gas line ruptured and fed a giant fireball that killed at least four people. Firefighters finally contained the fire Friday afternoon, but at least a quarter of the 15 acres of charred homes were still too hot to search. Crews with dogs went house to house and officials said there could be more casualties.
Nevada gaming revenues fell 4.9 percent in July, the state’s fifth consecutive monthly decline. The control board Friday said casinos statewide won $829.7 million from customers in July, compared with $872.7 million in July 2009.
Year-over-year, Nevada gaming revenues have now declined in six of the seven months that have been reported in 2010 and are down 1.7 percent.