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VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Bugsy Siegel Was Found Dead with Three $50 Bills on Him
Mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was shot to death inside his girlfriend's Beverly Hills home on June 20, 1947 Reports that three $50 bills were found on Siegel's body to signify that his murder was, in fact, a mob hit are untrue After...
NYC Shooter Had Two Mental Health Holds in Las Vegas
Shane Tamura, the Las Vegas casino surveillance worker who shot four people to death in a Manhattan skyscraper last month, was subjected to two emergency mental-health holds in Las Vegas over the past three years Neither prevented him from legally obtaining the...
Three New Vegas Sites Contend to House Relocated Neon Museum
Downtown Las Vegas' Plaza Hotel and an undisclosed Boyd-owned Casino are among the three sites now in contention to house a relocated Neon Museum Plans announced last year to relocate to the two top floors of a newly constructed parking garage have...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Waking Up in a Hotel Bathtub Missing a Kidney
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on Aug. 5, 2024. Welcome to the one people have requested since we started this series two years and 106 busted myths ago. For...
VEGAS MUSIC NEWS UPDATE: Kelly Clarkson’s Ex-Husband Dies from Cancer
UPDATE: Kelly Clarkson's ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, has died from cancer, according to multiple sources. This explains why the singer canceled the four remaining August dates of her Caesars Palace residency on Wednesday. Blackstock, who was privately battling cancer for three years, was...
VEGAS DINING NEWS: Aria Gets Fancy Indian Joint, Bazaar Meat Gets Opening Date
As we told you on June 11, Gymkhana -- widely regarded as one of the best Indian restaurants in the world with not one but two Michelin stars to back that up -- will open at Aria in the old Julian Serrano...
LOST VEGAS: The Railroad Cottages
Las Vegas was originally settled by railroad workers and laborers who needed places to live Between 1909 and 1911, Salt Lake (now Union Pacific) railroad built 64 cottages to house its workers Of the 28 cottages remaining in 1978, only one is...
RICO Suit Over Failed Las Vegas NBA Arena Tossed on Technicality
A federal judge on Monday rejected a $6.4 million RICO lawsuit against a famously failed Las Vegas basketball arena and luxury resort because it failed to meet a legal deadline. Last December, Kent Limson and TACSIS APC, the California law and accounting...
A’s Find First Investor in Las Vegas Ballpark
The Athletics have announced the MLB team's first minority investor. It’s Aramark Sports + Entertainment, the Philadelphia-based concessionaire announced in May as the overseer of all food and hospitality at the Las Vegas ballpark the team says it will open on the...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: University Medical Center Hospital is Run by a University
The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) -- where you might be rushed if you're seriously injured while visiting the Strip -- has never been nationally ranked in the annual U.S. News & World Report evaluation of best American hospitals in...
