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Las Vegas Aces Guard Arrested on Felony Domestic Violence Charges
Las Vegas Aces guard Riquna Williams, a member of last year’s championship WNBA team, was arrested for felony domestic violence against her wife on Tuesday. Williams, 33, faces five felony charges, including multiple counts of domestic battery by strangulation, coercion with the...
Alcohol-Fueled Mini Golf to Open on Las Vegas Strip
You can take a different kind of golf shot next year on the Las Vegas Strip when an adult miniature golf experience called Swingers Crazy Golf opens in 40K square feet over three floors inside Mandalay Bay. According to Bloomberg, Swingers will...
Lake Mead-Size Water Loss From Colorado River Caused by Humans — Study
From 2000 to 2021, human-caused climate change resulted in the loss of more than 10 trillion gallons of water from the Colorado River Basin -- about equal to the entire storage capacity of Lake Mead -- according to a new study modeling...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Two More Burger Joints & One Less Vegan Option
Whataburger is set to debut its only Las Vegas location this fall. The chain, open 24 hours and every day except Christmas, will occupy a two-story building adjoining the Waldorf Astoria in CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip. The building, formerly home...
Nevada Lawmakers Secretly Amended Gaming Distance Law for Casino Developer Near School
Nevada lawmakers in June secretly amended a state law restricting the distance between casinos and schools to benefit a casino company, according to a report by the Nevada Independent website. The change to SB266, a 26-year-old law limiting the distance from a...
F1 to Vegas Hotspots: Pay Millions For Your Race View or We’ll Block It
Formula 1 execs are informing all Las Vegas restaurants and nightclubs with a view of the upcoming Grand Prix circuit that they must pay $1,500 per head in licensing rights, according to the New York Post. If they don't, their views will...
Las Vegas Icon Tony Bennett Dies at 96
Tony Bennett, the masterful crooner, and interpreter of American standards, died Friday at age 96. Though no cause of death was released, his family publicly revealed his struggle with Alzheimer’s disease in 2021. In having to share Bennett, Las Vegas comes in...
Here’s Why Scantily Clad Women Brawled on a Las Vegas Casino Floor
It’s not every day that videos go viral featuring a woman being dragged off a motorized scooter in a luxury casino resort as another woman yanks her attacker's hair. So, when you find out why it occurred, this becomes news. The melee,...
Gilgo Beach Suspected Serial Killer Has Las Vegas Ties
Las Vegas investigators are looking into unsolved murder cases there for a possible connection to the Manhattan architect charged in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Rex Heuermann, 59, was arrested and charged last week in the deaths of three of the 11...
Tupac Murder Search Seized Bullet Cartridges, Computers from Vegas-Area Home
New details have emerged about the unsolved 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Police reactivated the investigation this week, and more than two dozen items were confiscated from a house at 2204 Maple Shade Street in Henderson, Nev. on Monday. That's according...
