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2028 stories by Corey Levitan
Caesars Ent. Files to Dismiss Suit from Sports Better Denied $800 Thousand in Winnings for Breaking House Rules
Caesars Entertainment filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from a sports bettor who won $800K at two of its midwestern casinos last year Caesars refused to pay Thomas McPeek because he violated house rules Though gaming regulators in two states upheld...
New York Shooter Was Arrested at a Vegas Casino in 2023
The gunman who shot four people to death on Monday, before killing himself, was once arrested at a Las Vegas casino Shane Tamura was arrested in September 2023 at the Red Rock Resort for trespassing Tamura refused to leave the casino cage...
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Zac Brown Paying to Play Sphere? Metallica Next? Also, Leona Set to Sleigh Voltaire
Zak Brown says he's going into debt to mount his Sphere residency Metallica will roll into Sphere for their own 2026 residency Leona Lewis books an extended state at Venetian Not only does Zak Brown claim he’s not making a fortune performing...
Manhattan Suspect is Second Recent Shooter IDed as Las Vegas Casino Employee
Shane Tamura of Las Vegas was identified as the shooter who killed four people in a Manhattan office building on Monday before killing himself The motive behind the shootings remains under investigation On Tuesday, officials from Horseshoe Las Vegas confirmed that Tamura...
UPDATE: Reno Casino Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, 3 Others Injured
UPDATE: A shooting outside the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno on Monday morning has left three people dead and at three wounded. The suspected gunman was shot by a responding police officer and taken to a hospital in critical condition....
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Strip Casinos Accept Competitors’ Chips
It's true that Las Vegas Strip casinos once accepted chips from competitor properties Like many things in Vegas, that practice has changed -- and become obsolete -- largely due to gaming and banking regulations Sister properties owned by the same conglomerate (eg,...
VIDEO: Beyoncé Reunites Destiny’s Child in Vegas
Fans attending Beyoncé's final "Cowboy Carter" show in Las Vegas were blown away on Saturday night when Queen Bey reunited Destiny’s Child, the ‘90s girl group that launched the singer to superstardom. The reunion -- the trio’s first since the 2018 Coachella festival...
LOST VEGAS: The Moulin Rouge
Fifteen years ago today, wrecking crews demolished the tower and main façade of the Moulin Rouge casino on Las Vegas's historic Westside. The property opened in May 1955 as the first racially integrated hotel casino in the nation. Yet casino didn’t live...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Las Vegas Strip’s Official Boundaries
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on Dec. 18, 2023. Most people know where the Las Vegas Strip officially starts and ends. It runs from just south of Russell...
LOST VEGAS: More Secret Relics Vegas Won’t Let You See
What closes in Vegas sometimes stays in Vegas. Often, it’s more cost effective for Strip resorts to wall off and forget old attractions and rooms that have outlived their usefulness than conduct a full teardown and rebuild. Last year, Casino.org showed you...
