SAN DIEGO – Anthony Marshall scored 20 points, and Khem Birch’s rebound basket with 25 seconds left lifted UNLV to an 82-75 victory over No. 15 San Diego State on Wednesday night, knocking the Aztecs out of the top spot in the Mountain West and quieting a crowd of 12,414 at Viejas Arena.
The 2013 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, which runs through Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel, is bringing an estimated 30,000 attendees to Las Vegas with $38.2 million in nongaming economic impact. Part of the show is open to trade only. But for $80, the public can see the Fan Fest and entertainment expo areas, and get plenty close to their favorite adult film stars.
The Las Vegas housing market has turned the corner and should continue to show improvement in 2013 unless the government “screws it up,” a former economist for the National Association of Home Builders said Wednesday.
Virgin America will step into an already busy market by launching three flights a day between McCarran International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport on April 22.
Cirque du Soleil, which operates seven shows in Las Vegas, announced it will lay off about 400 employees, or 9 percent of its staff, over the next three months, with the first round of job cuts happening before the end of the month.
The conference room in the Hard Rock Hotel held almost 70 people, wearing various forms of business dress. Collared shirts, brown loafers and smart hairstyles filled the room. They came to hear about using different forms of media to promote a brand.
Boosters of a domed stadium project on the UNLV campus have mentioned an NFL Pro Bowl and NFL pre-season games as potential events that would help generate millions of dollars for the local economy. But the NFL doesn’t appear likely it would stage a Pro Bowl event or sanction a game at the proposed “Mega-Event Center,” as officials for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and their private development partner are calling the proposed 60,000-seat venue.
North Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace has landed a $17.8 million contract with NASA to build, launch and install its Bigelow Expandable Activity Module at the International Space Station. If the module holds up, it might replace today’s aluminum-based space stations for orbital travel and living.
Foreclosure filings in Clark County fell 3 percent from a year ago to 953 in December, and the inventory of homes in some stage of foreclosure dropped to 12,469 at the end of last year, compared with 21,539 at the end of 2011, ForeclosureRadar.com reported Wednesday.
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Conrad Bain, who starred as the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died.
The Nevada State Development Corp. said Tuesday that it refinanced more than 30 small business loans valued at $87.2 million last year, with the help of local banks. The federal refinance program, which ended in September, allowed businesses to refinance loans at interest rates as low as 4.29 percent.