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Las Vegas performers from Japan agonize for loved ones back home

Two Japanese women who live in Las Vegas struggle with a language barrier and raw emotions to explain how their lives were affected by Japan’s triple disaster of a massive earthquake followed by a mammoth tsunami and compromised nuclear reactors at a power plant.

Workers react to closing of Sahara

Michael McClendon, a poker room supervisor at the Sahara, wasn’t surprised when he was called into a meeting at 7:30 a.m. with other employees and was told the nearly 60-year-old Strip resort would cease operations in May.
McClendon, who recently celebrated 25 years at the casino, said the announcement Friday shouldn’t have been unexpected.

Tropicana gives sneak preview to Las Vegas Mob Experience

The Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana held a soft opening “preview” Tuesday. Participants were given “name tags” that boast radio frequency identification technology. Just for fun, they then could have whacked one another. Or they could have gotten “made.”

Impressionist David Frye dies in Las Vegas at 77

Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Las Vegas at the age of 77.