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Miss USA crown goes to Connecticut contestant

Moments after she was crowned at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday, Connecticut accountant Erin Brady said all she could think about was letting her bosses know she...

Beauty queens vie for Miss USA crown in Las Vegas

Reigning queen Nana Meriwether will relinquish her crown and the posh New York apartment that comes with it and usher in her successor during the competition Sunday evening at the Planet...

Chinese taste for baccarat drives Macau boom

Almost all of Macau's $38 billion in gambling revenue last year - six times more than the Las Vegas Strip - came from card game, much of it from Chinese high-rollers betting borrowed money and...

Las Vegas marathon date shifts to Nov. 17

Runners start and finish on the neon-lit Las Vegas Strip.

Shania Twain announces fall show dates in Vegas

Shania Twain has announced 22 new show dates this fall to round out the first year of her two-year Las Vegas Strip residency.

Vegas, Macau help MGM Resorts beat 1Q expectations

MGM Resorts International reports an unexpected profit in the first quarter, as the casino operator benefited from rooms and gambling tables on the Las Vegas Strip, and the strength of Macau.

Bail set at $460K for alleged pimp in Vegas case

A judge set bail Monday at $460,000 cash for a 28-year-old man who investigators allege was a Las Vegas Strip pimp who threatened and beat a woman when she tried to quit working as his prostitute...

Cabbie's son sues man accused of Vegas shooting

The son of a taxi driver killed in a fiery crash following a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting on the Las Vegas Strip has filed a negligence lawsuit against the man being held in Los Angeles as a...

Stalled Las Vegas Strip project to get new owner

The partially-built complex on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip was to be a mixed-use development complete with 5,000 rooms in six hotels, lush landscaping and luxury amenities.

Hearing set for Las Vegas Strip shootout suspect

A man accused of firing gunshots that left a man dead and led to a deadly, fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip faces extradition from California to Nevada.

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LAS VEGAS: Investor in Grand Canyon Skywalk dies at 51

LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas businessman who developed the Grand Canyon Skywalk glass bridge in...

Appetizers: Sacramento-area women vie for $1 million Pillsbury Bake-Off

Kalani Allred of Loomis already has baked her way to Las Vegas.

Obama seeks to expand airwaves for wireless use

Staci Klinginsmith, a 26-year-old pageant pro who works for Cerner, is in Las Vegas competing...

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Not far from the mammoth hotels of the Las Vegas strip is the quiet desert resting place of the...

New-York Style Public Park to Hit the Las Vegas Strip

New-York Style Public Park to Hit the Las Vegas Strip

Hearing set for Las Vegas Strip shootout suspect

Hearing set for Las Vegas Strip shootout suspect

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Hazir Kargaran, third Calif. law student, charged in Las Vegas exotic bird...

A third person has been charged in the beheading of an exotic bird last October at a Las Vegas...

Man Accused of Vegas Shooting and Crash Arraigned

A self-described pimp accused of killing three people in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las...

Ammar Harris Update: Death penalty to be sought against Las Vegas Strip shooting...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Ammar Harris, the man charged in a deadly...