In a cheerful Tuesday ceremony, Henderson celebrated Connor Fields, its resident Olympic gold medalist and bicycle motocross racer, presenting him with a key to the city.
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Olympic champion and American swimmer Cody Miller is taking a victory lap. At the 2016 Rio Games the Las Vegas local won bronze in the 100-meter breaststroke and helped the U.S. clinch gold and set an Olympic record in the 4×100-meter medley relay.
U.S. Sen. Harry Reid voiced support Tuesday for a proposed domed football stadium that could bring the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, but he deferred to local and state officials when asked about the project’s financing.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson on Monday challenged MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren’s support of a proposed $1.4 billion upgrade of the Las Vegas Convention Center, calling a new stadium backed by Sands a higher priority for Southern Nevada’s tourism economy.
A legendary poker champion took to Twitter on Friday, telling his 400,000-plue followers that he was probably the intended target of an armed robbery that occurred at the home of a neighbor who lives down the street from him in the southwest valley.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday asked who would pay for the necessary upgrades to freeways and streets leading to a 65,000-seat domed football stadium proposed by Las Vegas Sands Corp., Majestic Realty and the Oakland Raiders.
After the second day of the Olympics, Michael Phelps waltzed up to the starting blocks and revealed dark purple spots on his shoulders.
Kelly McCrimmon, one of the most successful coaches and executives in Canadian junior hockey, has been hired by the Las Vegas NHL expansion team as the assistant to general manager George McPhee.
