Startup Weekend has arrived in Las Vegas to give entrepreneurs the chance to pitch an idea, assemble a team, then build and demo their product. The event takes place Friday night until Sunday afternoon at the El Cortez.
What would have happened to the Plaza had someone finished the bankrupt Fontainbleau? The Strip resort’s collapse opened up the opportunity for Plaza renovators to buy enough furniture and fixtures for all 1,037 rooms at pennies on the dollar. The renovated downtown hotel-casino is set to reopen on Sept. 1.
Brandon Hill wondered aloud Wednesday why he was spending his 23rd birthday in jail accused of killing Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside a brew pub March 30. Speaking over a video link at the Clark County Detention Center, Hill, who has been in and out of jail the past few years, said he’s not the shooter.
Las Vegas is more than 6,000 miles from Beijing, but that hasn’t stopped criticism of China from emerging as an issue in Nevada races for the U.S. House and Senate.
Harel Zahavi told jurors he never intended to defraud four Las Vegas casinos out of $384,000 in gambling markers. But his testimony didn’t stop a jury Wednesday from convicting him of four felony counts. He faces one to four years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine on each count at an Oct. 27 sentencing.
CARSON CITY — District Judge James Todd Russell met Wednesday with Republican and Democratic lawyers, but set no date for oral arguments on how to redistrict legislative and congressional seats.
LOS ANGELES — An attorney for director Nick Cassavetes says there was nothing improper about a 2007 poker game that sparked a lawsuit over winnings by his client.
NEW YORK — Country music legend Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and will put out his final album this summer.
PHILADELPHIA — “Jackass” star Ryan Dunn had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit when he and a passenger died in a fiery one-car crash this week, according to a toxicology report.
Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport continued to grow in May, with more than half of the gains coming from established market leader Southwest and resurgent Spirit.
CONNERSVILLE, Ind. — Police have arrested a 26-year-old Amish man from eastern Indiana who they say showed up in a horse and buggy for what he thought was a meeting to have sex with a 12-year-old girl.
SAN FRANCISCO — US Airways is defending its decision to allow a man wearing skimpy women’s panties and high heels to fly days before a football player was arrested on a plane in California over a dispute over his saggy pants.
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