A 31-year-old Henderson man who plead guilty to a slew of robberies last year was sentenced to nearly 15 years in federal prison Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney for Nevada announced Tuesday.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. and Las Vegas Sands Corp. were upgraded by analysts Tuesday, as international growth opportunities in Macau were expected to remain strong in 2011.
The Las Vegas Convention Center has officially acquired an alter ego as the World Trade Center Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Association purchased the license for the name from the World Trade Center Association in New York and worked out an agreement with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Henderson could end up paying more than $1 million to a former city manager who sued after she was fired in 2009. An arbitrator has ruled against the city in a breach-of-contract claim brought by Mary Kay Peck.
O.J. Simpson’s co-defendant from a 2007 robbery of sports memorabilia dealers at Palace Station was released from jail Tuesday on house arrest after he struck a deal with prosecutors. Clarence Stewart, 56, entered an Alford plea to one count each of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.
LOS ANGELES — Sheriff’s investigators want Lindsay Lohan charged with battery for last month’s skirmish with a Betty Ford Center rehabilitation technician. A two-week investigation shows Lohan violated her probation during the Dec. 12 altercation and details will be sent to the Los Angeles County Probation Department this week.
NEW YORK — An injection of cash that values Facebook at $50 billion will help it delay going public for at least another year, giving the company breathing room to focus on long-term ambition rather than short-term profit. The infusion – $500 million from elite investment house Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor, represents the most emphatic endorsement yet of Facebook’s potential to make money in online social networking.
NEW YORK — A former girlfriend of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has a deal for a “sexually driven” memoir. Lillian McEwen, who dated Thomas in the 1980s, has written a book “D.C. Unmasked and Undressed” that is scheduled to come out in early February. McEwen said Thomas often made inappropriate comments and was “obsessed with porn.”
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