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2098 stories by Corey Levitan
Heavy Metal Star Lists Las Vegas Castle for $28M
Most people wouldn’t recognize Zoltan Bathory if he passed them in a grocery store. He’s not a reality TV fixture or a household name. Yet his loud heavy-metal band band, Five Finger Death Punch, has quietly amassed more than 12 billion streams...
Las Vegas Resorts Beat Price-Fixing Suit Over Shared Software
Wynn Resorts, Caesars Entertainment and Treasure Island beat a consumer class action lawsuit Friday, as the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld a lower-court dismissal of claims that the Las Vegas casino companies conspired to fix hotel rates using...
Senior Israeli Official Arrested in Las Vegas Child Solicitation Sting
An official with the Israeli government's cybersecurity division was arrested in Las Vegas on charges of attempting to solicit a minor online The arrest, part of a sting that netted eight suspects, occurred while Tom Alexandrovich, 38, was attending the annual Black...
Alleged Bank Robbers Head to Casino With Stolen Loot
Two suspects were arrested at an Arizona casino, where they were spending the money they had literally just robbed from an area bank Michael Dino Peraino, 63, and Tyler Michael Thyaer, 31, were arrested by local police on on charges of armed...
Reality Star’s Las Vegas Battery Case Dismissed
A misdemeanor battery case has been dismissed against Tarek El Moussa, the HGTV star cited by police in June for allegedly striking a man on the Palazzo casino floor The man, who according to witnesses had insulted El Moussa's 77-year-old father, was...
Aristocrat Slots ‘The Phantom’ Reboot Into Las Vegas Casinos
Aristocrat Gaming, the world’s second-largest slot manufacturer behind IGT, has unleashed its second iteration of The Phantom onto casino floors. Based on the first masked superhero in popular media, its new slot machine is now live at six Las Vegas locations: Resorts...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Elvis Was a Straight-Up Racist
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Jan. 20, 2023 and we are re-running it now to honor the 48th anniversary of his death on Aug....
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Jessica Simpson Mounts Comeback, Backstreet Boys Add Dates Like it’s 1999
Jessica Simpson on Thursday announced a one-night-only concert at Planet Hollywood’s PH Live, happening Nov. 8. The singer, who split from her second husband, NFL tight end Eric Johnson, in January and moved parttime from LA to Nashville, returned with her first...
F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix Settles Lawsuit with Disrupted Businesses
Just in time for preparations to begin for this year’s F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix comes word of a settlement between F1 and a claimants who said these preparations cost him millions of dollars in business. F1 officials said Tuesday that they...
Unlicensed Driver Who Crashed into Vegas Bar Faces DUI Charges
The driver who crashed her Jeep Cherokee through the exterior wall of a popular Las Vegas bar last week was unlicensed and had no insurance, her registration was expired, and she refused field sobriety and blood tests. That’s according to her arrest...
