Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. is being sued by a bank in Las Vegas for more than $167,000 unpaid on a loan for a half-million-dollar luxury car.
Harrah’s Entertainment is buying up the Planet Hollywood Resort’s debt in what an analyst said could be a bid to take over the financially troubled Strip property.
The city of Las Vegas is considering donating 4.5 acres downtown worth about $12 million to the Cleveland Clinic to entice the nonprofit academic medical center to build a satellite operation there.
He weighed more than 1,000 pounds. He huffed and puffed. He drooled and he pooped. He charged. … “Olé!” screamed the crowd, several hundred strong. … They were watching a rare bullfighting event staged Monday afternoon at the South Point hotel-casino south of the Strip. … The event, dubbed a “bloodless” bullfight, features a patch of Velcro fastened to the bull’s back. Rather than using actual weapons, the matadors try to attach a Velcro-coated stick to the bulls. It appears as if they’ve stabbed the bull, but the animal is unhurt.
A Henderson businessman was sentenced Monday in Missouri to five years in prison for a fraudulent scheme to sell mineral rights to investors.
Vic Vickrey appreciated his place offstage in the Las Vegas casino pantheon, and he respected the entertainment legends he mixed with for six decades.
• Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons says she isn’t the author of the Twitter feed for “FirstLadyDawn.” The sole post, or tweet, from the feed was reported Monday on page 2B.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday asked the State Department and Pentagon to investigate the electrocution of a 25-year-old private security contractor while showering in his dormitory in Baghdad.
Nevada’s Nuclear Projects Agency chief said Monday the state has filed five new challenges to the Energy Department’s application for a license to build a repository for the nation’s highly radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain.
A memorabilia dealer who blames his heart attacks on the stress of being robbed at gunpoint by O.J. Simpson is suing the former football star and five other men who were in the room during the heist.
A view of crime in North Las Vegas is now just clicks away thanks to a new Web site launched by the city’s Police Department.
Grant Haertter is a married man, so, naturally, he had questions about whether he’d be able to enter into a domestic partnership with Carl Cottrell.
Celebrities piled on the anti-Kanye West bandwagon Monday, a day after the rapper grabbed a microphone from Taylor Swift, as she was accepting an MTV award for Best Female Video, and said, “I’m sorry, but Beyoncé did one of the best videos of all time.”
A free press is the best check on government power. For too long, a federal government that’s supposed to be “of the people, by the people and for the people” has not provided journalists with the protections they need to better uncover abuses and misuses of power.
World Market Center Las Vegas officials plan to add three more trade shows next year, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Maricich said Monday as the Fall 2009 show opened.
Like a teenybopper collecting letters from pen pals, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has compiled quite a stash of missives.
Donald McGhan, the 75-year-old kingpin in a $97 million fraud at Southwest Exchange, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in prison for four counts of wire fraud.