In a verdict challenged just four minutes after it was read, a 12-person jury awarded Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen $70 million for the consulting work he did a dozen years ago to help Las Vegas Sands Corp. enter the booming Macau market.
Station Casinos said Tuesday the company’s net revenues fell 2 percent in the first quarter as customers, feeling the effects of increased taxes and delays to federal tax refunds, gambled less.
The accused mastermind of a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations was indicted by a Las Vegas federal grand jury Tuesday on charges of evading roughly $1.2 million in personal and company taxes.
Former lobbyist and land developer Harvey Whittemore accused of funneling illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
A proposal to name the peak of Las Vegas’ Frenchman Mountain after President Ronald Reagan will receive a second hearing by a state naming board in September.
The 9/11 attacks launched the United States into a new era of military readiness which continued Tuesday with the opening of the $25 million, 65,000-square-foot North Las Vegas Readiness Center, next to the 20-year-old Clark County armory on Range Road in the north Las Vegas Valley.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority soon will purchase another slice of Sierra Vista Drive for a cool $4.6 million.
Damn the rule about impartial journalism.
LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Top basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins will play his college basketball at Kansas.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seemed to lose control of his second-term agenda even before he was sworn in, when a school massacre led him to lift gun control to the fore. Now, as he tries to pivot from a stinging defeat on that issue and push forward on others, the president finds himself rocked by multiple controversies that are demoralizing his allies, emboldening his political foes and posing huge distractions for all.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — A man unhappy with a neighbor’s fence is accused of using a bulldozer to destroy three houses, damage another home and crush two sheds, a pickup truck, lawn mower, fences and other property.
Robert Guerrero’s attempt to bring a gun onto an airplane will not land him in jail after all.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH — The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a warship in the Atlantic Ocean, as it wades deeper into America’s drone program amid growing concerns over the legality of its escalating surveillance and lethal strikes.
U.S. Sen. Dean Heller said Tuesday he will seek to cut off funding for new Internal Revenue Service agents following disclosure the agency targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Shareholders of Affinity Gaming voted Tuesday to expand the Las Vegas-based casino operator’s board of directors from five members to seven.
One of the largest shareholders in MGM Resorts International said Tuesday it would be willing to sell its stake in the hotel-casino operator for the right price.
Sprouts Farmers Market LLC is going public and hopes to raise $300 million in its initial public offering. The Phoenix-based grocer filed its plans for an IPO in the near future with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments to determine the fate of a dog that fatally attacked a toddler last year.
Fifth Street Gaming, developer and operator of the Downtown Grand, has signed a long-term agreement with William Hill to operate a race and sports book at the downtown Las Vegas casino, the company said Tuesday.
Even by the awful standards of Washington, where hubris and vindictiveness are standard operating procedure, the arrogance and malfeasance uncovered at the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Justice over the past few days is staggering.
A committee vote to extend voter registration in Nevada has been postponed after Democratic opposition spelled doom for the measure.
WASHINGTON — Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.
“Cloud Atlas,” starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant leads the offerings this week in DVD releases. If that’s not to your taste, there’s “Texas Chainsaw.” Dan Brown’s “Inferno” hits the bookshelves.
A pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run accident Saturday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Las Vegas is known for its eclectic entertainment options.
The relationship between a Clark County School District teacher and her student — no more than 15 years old — was cut short by attentive parents, ending the budding relationship before it progressed past kissing, according to the arrest report of 24-year-old Amanda Brennan.
NEW YORK — U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year — the highest amount since the fees became common five years ago.
MOSCOW — A U.S. diplomat disguised in a blond wig was caught red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian agent in Moscow, Russia’s security services announced Tuesday, claiming the American was a CIA officer.
NEW YORK — Bill Hader is leaving “Saturday Night Live” after an eight-year run.