Caesars completes sale of Harrah’s New Orleans

Caesars Entertainment Corp. completed sale Tuesday of Harrah’s New Orleans to Caesars Growth Partners after receiving approval from the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.

New Jersey envisions licensing for net payment companies

New Jersey wants stricter licensing requirements for companies that handle Internet gambling deposits and payments, in the hope it would make banks more willing to let online bettors use credit cards.

GM recalls another 2.6 million vehicles

General Motors Co said on Tuesday it is recalling another 2.6 million vehicles globally, raising the number of vehicles it has recalled so far this year to almost 15.4 million.

Rascal Flatts lip-syncs apology for lip-syncing in Las Vegas

When multiplatinum country group Rascal Flatts appeared to be lip-synching at this year’s ACM Awards, the trio handled the aftermath with a little honesty and a lot of humor.

Las Vegas police investigating stabbing downtown

Officers responded Tuesday to Fremont at 14th street and found a man with a stab wound. The man was taken to University Medical Center.

 
Chipotle says no to guns… in stores

Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its Texas restaurants.

Three for your ears

Check out new CDs out Tuesday: Jolie Holland’s “Wine Dark Sea,” Haley Bonar’s “Last War” and Castle’s “Under Siege.”

4 iconic movie roles worth the reboot

New ideas are hard to come by, but remakes are not. Many successful movies and characters from the past are receiving “reboots.” Here are four iconic roles that have been played by multiple actors.

 
Mom goes after wrong kid in bully attack

A Northern California mother suspected of attacking a 12-year-old boy she said was bullying her daughter at school may have targeted the wrong child, a sheriff’s official said Monday.

 
Panel: Nevada margins tax proposal leaves many unanswered questions

If Nevada voters approve a proposed 2 percent margins tax on business in November, there will be a lot of uncertainty about which companies will be taxed and whether the $750,000 annual revenue raised will really be used to increase education funding, experts said Monday.

President Ralphie May? Sure, why not?

“I can out-talk all these (expletive) (expletives), and I’m way more personable than most of them.”

NFL players: League hid injuries by pushing pills

A group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the league, thirsty for profits, illegally supplied them with risky narcotics and other painkillers that numbed their injuries for games and led to medical complications down the road.

10 most ridiculous quotes from Fox’s ‘I Wanna Marry Harry’

“I Wanna Marry ‘Harry,’ ” debuting at 9 p.m. Tuesday on KVVU-TV, Channel 5, tricks 12 extremely gullible American women into thinking they’re dating Prince Harry. The results are hilariously evil.

Lowden, Hutchison spice up election

Whether you’re paying attention is perhaps the most pertinent question strategists for candidates Mark Hutchison and Sue Lowden must answer as they sharpen the knives heading into the start of early voting Saturday.

Nevada faces $70 million budget shortfall as gold prices decline

Decling gold prices and lower production will lower Nevada’s state general fund this year by $70 million, but Gov. Brian Sandoval does not expect the hit to affect the state’s day-to-day stability.

N.C. union votes to accept college athletes as members

The State Employees Association of North Carolina’s governing board voted Friday to open the group’s membership to athletes at the state’s 17 public campuses.

GOP critics say Bilbray opposed Iraq war initially

A video from 2007 shows Nevada congressional candidate Erin Bilbray taking part in an anti-Iraq war protest in front of the Lloyd George Federal Building in downtown Las Vegas.

‘Zumanity’ dancer details relationship with Griffith during trial

“Zumanity” dancer Agnes Roux testified that in early December 2010 she told Jason “Blu” Griffith she wouldn’t get back together with him if he continued to have any kind of relationship with Debbie Flores Narvaez.

Las Vegas hits back at ambulance company complaints

The city of Las Vegas is pushing back against a report by ambulance provider American Medical Response that concludes the city Fire Department has a higher rate of transporting patients to hospitals when they are from wealthier neighborhoods.

Man shot 4 times in southwest Las Vegas

A Monday shooting in the southwest valley sent one person to the hospital with four gunshot wounds, police said.

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