New York-based investor Jason Ader, a Las Vegas Sands Corp. board member, has become the second-largest shareholder in European online gaming giant Bwin.party, acquiring a 6 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange-listed business in February. The investment could seemingly put Ader at odds with Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson.
Las Vegas Police have arrested two former foster parents on charges of abuse and neglect of three children under their care that they later adopted. Janet Solander, 53, and Dwight Solander, 50, face of a slew of felony charges in connection with the case that include child abuse, neglect or endangerment and sexual assault of a minor.
Frank Kaminsky scored 19 points and blocked six shots, and Wisconsin romped into the West Regional final with a dominant 69-52 victory over Baylor on Thursday night.
Jordan Sibert scored 18 points, Kendall Pollard added a season-high 12 and Dayton rolled past Stanford 82-72 on Thursday to make the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 1984.
Bureau of Land Management officials in Nevada won’t say how much it might cost to round up so-called “trespass cattle” from federal land 80 miles north of Las Vegas, but at least $1 million is a pretty safe bet.
Try to read between the lines of these Vegas photos of Morgan Freeman, Adam Sandler, Clint Eastwood, Melissa McCarthy, Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis.
Small-town Kansas is as close as Las Vegas Little Theatre’s main stage this weekend when the troupe opens a production of William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 drama “Picnic.”
The sbe club opens Labor Day weekend and apparently will look like this, minus all the fast edits when you see it in person, presumably.
The goosebumpy, epic-looking opening minutes of “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” which showed the titular mutants battling Sentinels, grabbed me by my geeky parts in way’s last night’s reveal of 35 minutes of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” just didn’t.
Singer Roslyn Kind performs at Cabaret Jazz, staking out her own musical territory despite her close connection with another well-known singer: her (half) sister, Barbra Streisand.
Utah Shakespeare Festival breaks ground on the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts,, thanks to $5 million gift from the Englestad Family Foundation.
Larry Basich’s health insurance nightmare has ended. Insurer Health Plan of Nevada said this morning that it has agreed to cover Basich retroactively to Jan. 1, concluding a four-month saga during which he ran up more than $400,000 in uncovered medical bills.
Billy Gardell seems to have one wish granted by being cast in the upcoming movie version of “Jersey Boys,” directed by Clint Eastwood.
Michael Charles Garcia was sentenced to 18 months in prison Thursday in Las Vegas in a 2012 bank robbery case that disrupted the federal court system.
A search of a park for a missing 8-year-old girl is a “recovery operation,” although District of Columbia police haven’t given up hope of finding the child alive, Chief Cathy Lanier said Thursday.
There are no pink album covers in black metal. Oh, Deafheaven, look what you’ve gone and done.
Progressive rockers Yes hit The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on Aug. 15. Tickets start at $39.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at The Joint box office, 4455 Paradise Road, and Ticketmaster outlets.
As frontman for moody metallers Deftones, Chino Moreno broadens the emotional range of mosh-pit-catalyzing heaviness with a voice that could double as a barbiturate, as soothing as it is scarifying when sharpened into a shriek.
“The Tonight Show” band never had to play pop hits on school classroom instruments when Doc Severinsen was at the helm. But if there had been YouTube back then, the 86-year-old showman probably would have been game.
A consultant for the UNLV stadium board Thursday recommended building a new on-campus multi-purpose stadium with a capacity of 50,000 to 60,000 seats and offered a slew of proposed events the stadium could potentially host.
California’s Naive Melodies pay tribute to the Talking Heads with a wide selection of the art rockers’ songs at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Hard Rock Cafe,
Nick Swardson will work with you when he’s onstage, but he probably won’t drink with you offstage. The comedian says he woke up under the Hard Rock Hotel sign one time too many.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a $9 million judgment against former topless club owner Rick Rizzolo stemming from a 2001 altercation over an $80 bar tab that left a Kansas man a quadriplegic.
A Florida woman who was the target of road rage earlier this week witnessed karma immediately following the incident.
At least the new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movie trailer isn’t taking itself too seriously. I’m joking. That’s sarcasm. The new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” trailer is totally taking itself very seriously.
Matthew Vosburg turns homeowners’ high-end dream kitchens into a reality — even though he knows that meals may never be prepared in the spaces he spends months designing.
The 50-year-old knife-wielding woman who was shot twice by a Las Vegas police officer last week has a history of mental illness and problems with Metro, Clark County Undersheriff Jim Dixon said Thursday.
