Following a month-long trial, a federal jury convicted a New Orleans lawyer late Thursday in one of the largest mortgage fraud cases in Nevada.
Two Las Vegas men have been arrested in the breakup of what FBI agents are calling a major theft ring that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs and high-quality merchandise from delivery vans and warehouses around the valley.
A top executive from the U.S. Travel Association is the leading candidate to replace retiring American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf.
Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services filed a corrective action plan Thursday to prevent future cases of patient dumping, two months after putting a mentally ill homeless man on a bus to Sacramento, Calif., although he knew no one in the city and had no one designated to help him.
The Las Vegas Club has stopped taking reservations for more than 400 guest rooms at its downtown hotel-casino, a statement issued Thursday by the hotel’s owner said.
A 55-year-old man who hoped to be killed by Henderson police the day after Christmas 2011 was sentenced to 12 to 32 months in prison earlier this week.
U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., and a House Democrat from Mississippi are trying to form a bipartisan Congressional Gaming Caucus to focus on gaming issues and policy.
The Clark County Commission would be allowed to increase the sales tax to pay for more police and raise the fuel tax to pay for more road projects under two bills advanced by a legislative committee Thursday.
In a family squabble over money, Susan Greenspun Fine has sued her brother, Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun, to collect an unpaid $2 million loan.
There are signs of movement in the 6-week-old strike by Yellow Checker Star Transportation cabdrivers.
A man was found fatally shot inside an east valley apartment late Wednesday night, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
Here’s your nightclub and dayclub forecast for the week. It is insanely packed with quality DJ-producers.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Italian restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F. Opinions by R-J critic Heidi Knapp Rinella (H.K.R.) are indicated by initials. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees from $10 to $20; $$$ = entrees from $20 to $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Wines from North and South America will go head to head this weekend at the Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont St., beginning with a dinner at 7 tonight on the pool deck. Tickets are $95 and include the Poolside Champagne & Wine Kick-Off from 8 to 10 p.m. (tickets for that event alone are $35).
Kelly’s Prime Steak & Seafood is nothing if not an old-school steakhouse.
Given the game’s inherent poetry, it’s nearly impossible to make a bad baseball movie.
Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland performs solo at The Pearl at the Palms on June 1. Tickets start at $34 and go on sale at 1 p.m. today at The Pearl box office, 4321 W. Flamingo Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
Ever rewatch a sci-fi flick that blew minds a decade or so ago but, years later, feels as antiquated as it once did cutting-edge?
Coachella is simultaneously awesome and a little overrated.
Professional heels aren’t confined to pro wrasslin’.
Soon, people will get to actually “hang out” over dinner in Las Vegas.
If anyone’s still celebrating 10 years of the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, they’d better not forget Jerry.
