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Kevin Federline Named Father Of The Year By Vegas Nightclub

Us | Posted 06.22.2008 | Entertainment


Kevin Federling has been named Father of the Year by Las Vegas club Prive. "I'm surprised," Federline said when asked how it felt to win the title. ...

Trouble In Vegas: Owner Of Tropicana Files For Chapter 11

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The owner of Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, nearly five ...

MGM Mirage Cuts 440 Jobs

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business


Las Vegas casino operator MGM Mirage has said it is cutting 440 jobs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, signaling the effect of a slowing e...

Casino Billionaire Wins Libel Damages After Being Called "Cut-Throat, Ruthless and Despicable"

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


American casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson won damages in London's High Court Wednesday after a newspaper accused him of "cut-throat, ruthless and de...

Conservative Watchdog Group Files Complaint Over Nudity On NBC's "Las Vegas"

Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


On the heels of the FCC attempting to fine ABC affiliates for airing a shot of naked buttocks (which, incidentally, CNN aired by accident during the S...

Vegas Offers Shelter To The Weary Famous

New York Times | STEVE FRIESS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


FOR some time now, Michael Jackson and his children have lived at the Palms resort here while he records a new album in its studio. This might not be...

Fire Closes Vegas' Monte Carlo; 17 Hurt

AP | KATHLEEN HENNESSEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


LAS VEGAS — A fire on the roof of the Monte Carlo hotel-casino forced guests and gamblers to flee and sent flaming embers raining down on the La...

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Barack Bets On Record Turnout

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Las Vegas, Nevada - Predicting a "record turn-out" for Saturday's presidential caucuses, Barack Obama closed out his Silver State campaign last night ...

Marc Cooper

Bill Clinton: Super Surrogate

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Boulder City, Nevada-- When it came to crunch time earlier this month during the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton called out a...

Marc Cooper

Nevada: Full Scale Union Ground War

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Las Vegas, NV -- Forty-eight hours to go before Saturday's Democratic caucuses and it's strictly battle-station mode at the headquarters of the 60,000...

Marc Cooper

Nevada Unions Pump Up For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Throughout Nevada, union activists are mobilized and deployed to support rival Democratic campaigns. In this video, we see Dale Jackson of the Service...

Marc Cooper

John Edwards Not Planning to Quietly Fade Away

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Las Vegas, NV - As he pinballs and caroms through Nevada union halls, vet centers and community meeting rooms packed with cheering, sometimes fervent ...

Marc Cooper

Obama Storms Vegas and Chides Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Henderson, NV -- Just three days before the "tie-breaker" Nevada caucuses this coming Saturday, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama storme...

CES Attendees Are Packing Gadgets, Hand Sanitizers

Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Consumer Electronics Show is packed with gadget freaks, but also with hypochondriacs. Take 140,000 sleep-deprived, overworked people, cram them i...

CES: Thin, Big Screen TVs Were The Star

New York Times | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week was an unabashed display of high-technology gadgetry. Televisions, enormously wide and remarkably...

CES: Same Old Show, Some New Ideas

New York Times | David Pogue | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


One million exhibitors. Sixty million attendees. Four trillion booths spread across an area the size of Rhode Island. Those aren't really the specs f...

Preview: Las Vegas' Greatest Gadgets Show

Forbes | Rachel Rosmarin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Kevin Costner, Yoko Ono, Mary J. Blige and Danica Patrick will be hawking products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week--but they'l...

Breakfast Buffet At The Wynn: The Best Eggs, Turkey, And Sushi $37.50 Can Buy

Amy Ephron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Amy Ephron

It's not about over-abundance, although it sort of is. I'm not the kind of person who loads their plate up full to the brim -- in fact, I don't even like it when my food groups touch, although that's part of it, too, I guess.

DoOver Tonight: Clinton's Chance To Undo Damage

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Democrats' first debate out West gives the party's presidential contenders an opportunity to spotlight the region's issues -- though the focus may...

Blitzer: No Special Treatment For Hillary Tonight

Examiner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Blitzer also defended Russert against criticism by Bill Clinton. "I think Russert was doing his job," he said. "He was trying to follow up and be Tim...

Democrats Debate In Las Vegas

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Read Marc Cooper's debate primer, from OffTheBus. New York Times: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton heads into tonight's Democratic presidential debate...

Vegas Becomes The Capital Of High-Tech Surveillance

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


This city, famous for being America's playground, has also become its security lab. Like nowhere else in the United States, Las Vegas has embraced the...

Goldman Sachs Bets On Wynn, MGM And Las Vegas Sands

Seeking Alpha | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Put your money on gaming names with operations in Las Vegas and Macau because better-than-expected results could emerge from the center of Asia's gamb...

Journo Files For Bankruptcy After Being Sued By Resort Mogul

Las Vegas Review-Journal | A.D. HOPKINS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


John L. Smith, the Review-Journal's most widely read columnist, has filed for bankruptcy after a two-year legal battle with Sheldon Adelson, owner of ...

OJ Allegedly Robbed Man At Gunpoint In Las Vegas

TMZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


Sources say OJ Simpson and five other men barged into a hotel room last night, and took various memorabilia once owned by Simpson -- at gunpoint! It ...