CG Technology, the gambling subsidiary of Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald LP, will pay the largest fine in Nevada history to settle an 18-count complaint that the company or its CEO should have known one of its top executives was accepting illegal bets.
Andrew Donner, the real estate developer responsible for most of Downtown Project’s property acquisitions, has been named CEO of the Life is Beautiful music-food-art festival, which took place in downtown Las Vegas in October.
Competent, terminally ill patients have a fundamental right under the New Mexico Constitution to seek a physician’s help in getting prescription medications if they want to end their lives on their own terms, a state district judge ruled Monday.
The Las Vegas nightclub scene boasts good times for patrons and big profits for management, but a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court threatens to disrupt the party for powerhouse local operator the Light Group.
A man accused of holding his former girlfriend against her will for six months inside a Mesquite motel was arrested Saturday night, Mesquite police said. Jason Greniger, 34, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center Sunday on one charge of kidnapping, according to police records.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in finding a suspect in a sexual assault that happened Dec. 27 about 2:30 p.m. at a gated apartment complex near West Sahara Avenue and South Durango Drive.
As critics take shots at coach Dave Rice, whose approval ratings are dropping following UNLV’s back-to-back home losses, he’s getting too familiar with the downside of a high-profile position.
Kiefer Sutherland will return as Jack Bauer in a 12-episode run of “24: Live Another Day,” debuting with a two-hour show May 5 on Fox.
An effort to retrieve a dropped cell phone ended in tragedy on Monday when a 26-year-old man died after falling into the icy Chicago River near downtown Chicago, and a 21-year-old woman who was with him was presumed dead after also going into the river, police said.
A traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of Blue Diamond and Cimarron roads, a dangerous spot brought to the public forefront when a 14-year-old girl was struck and killed by the pickup truck while walking there in November.
A former school teacher was acting in self-defense in 2011 when he fired three shots in the air to warn off crew members of a reality TV production, his lawyer told a jury Monday afternoon.
A motorcycle rider has died after a crash involving a pickup truck just before 9 a.m. Monday in the 6500 block of Centennial Center Boulevard.
A troubled woman left a behavioral counselling meeting in Tempe, Ariz., Friday morning and took a taxi more than 280 miles to the Nevada border, where she committed suicide by jumping from the Hoover Dam bypass bridge.
The Las Vegas Review Journal and the conservative magazine National Review are suing Nevada’s Department of Insurance to obtain records of nearly a dozen Silver State Exchange program workers who might have criminal histories.
A program Las Vegas once considered a method to weed mob associates out of booze sales and other risque businesses has outlived its usefulness and should be pared back, according to a city councilman.
Penn National Gaming has begun construction on a $360 million casino development in partnership with a Southern California Indian tribe, 20 miles east of San Diego.
There’s something about a Neil Simon play that gets to you after the final curtain. A realization bubbles to the surface that, under the comedic foibles of the characters he creates, there’s a truth about the endurance of the human spirit. Despite ourselves, we can bounce back from emotional hardship and see love.
“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about the meaning of art, is really about the meaning of life. Four times the question is asked, “What do you see?” And ultimately the answer is, “What does life mean?”
An argument over texting in a Florida movie theater Monday triggered a retired Tampa police captain to fatally shoot a man sitting in front of him, as about 25 horrified moviegoers looked on, sheriff’s officials said.
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved gingerly today trying to revive a stalled bill that would extend federal benefits to the long-term unemployed.
Jerry Koloskie, who rose from working with UNLV’s training staff to eventually becoming interim athletic director, resigned last week. Athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy said Monday that Koloskie made the decision “on his own.”
Richard Magdayo Dahan told police he ended his wife’s life because she wanted to end their marriage.
A pastor who is also a big San Francisco 49ers fan was faced with a dilemma Sunday morning: Watch his beloved Niners or preach the word of God. He decided to do both … sort of.
The Las Vegas Improvisation Players create on the spot scenes, songs and poems in a format similar to the popular TV program “Whose Line is it Anyway?” They tend to keep the comedy swift, fun, clean and family-friendly. They often perform once a month at the American Heritage Academy. This will be a feature on the performers.
The massive Interstate 15 widening effort in Las Vegas known as Project Neon took another step forward Monday when the state Transportation Board unanimously approved a resolution seeking approval to borrow up to $100 million to purchase right-of-way for the project.
Hakkasan Ltd., which operates the 64,000-square-foot Hakkasan Las Vegas at the MGM Grand, has taken majority ownership of Enlightened Hospitality Group, the hospitality company said Monday.
Talmer Bancorp Inc., the company that recently acquired Bank of Las Vegas, now plans to become a public company.
Ford has unveiled a new F-150 with a body built almost entirely out of aluminum. The lighter material shaves as much as 700 pounds off the 5,000-pound truck, a revolutionary change for a vehicle known for its heft and an industry still heavily reliant on steel.
STOCKHOLM — Nine women in Sweden have successfully received transplanted wombs donated from relatives in an experimental procedure that has raised some ethical concerns. The women will soon try to become pregnant with their new wombs, the doctor in charge of the pioneering project has revealed.
