An anonymous gambler hit the Megabucks jackpot Friday at CityCenter’s Aria, winning almost $12.8 million. The winner had played $6 in a Megabucks slot machine at Aria when the jackpot hit.
MTV’s Spring Break will come to Las Vegas for the first time March 6-9, with daily live broadcasts from the Palms pool, site of one of the world’s premier parties.
The webcast features a look at the latest unemployment numbers for Las Vegas and Nevada. It also features the UNLV Rebels basketball game Saturday with New Mexico.
Las Vegas police on Friday arrested a 27-year-old man for a fatal shooting last week in the northwest valley. Donnell Patrick Pugh was nabbed in downtown Los Angeles by the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force about 7:30 a.m. He is being held on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.
Almost all of the Clark County School District students who want to switch schools through open enrollment for the 2011-12 school year will get their wish, school officials said Friday.
Travelscape, a Las Vegas-based online hotel bookings company, has been ordered to pay as much as $6.3 million in back tax revenue to South Carolina in a ruling that observers said is part of a larger push by cash-strapped states to grab money from Internet companies.
The loss of some 200 jobs at Ford Motor Credit company’s Henderson office underscores the need for any sort of job creation in Southern Nevada, even in an industry that once drew scorn for its relatively low pay scale.
WASHINGTON — In a symbolic show that politicians can get along despite their differences, Democrat and Republican lawmakers from Nevada plan to sit together during the State of the Union speech next week.