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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...
120 Thousand Fans Off to See ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at Vegas Sphere
The Las Vegas Sphere reports selling 120K tickets for its re-envisioned "The Wizard of Oz" It expects to sell 200K by the movie's opening day, August 28 Though that's a lot of tickets, it's not enough to fill the venue 11 times...
Roof Fire at Sahara Las Vegas
A fire broke out on the second-story roof of the Sahara casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday and was quickly extinguished by Clark County firefighters. At 5:05 p.m., the Clark County Fire Department (CCFD) responded to a fire call...
Vegas Tourism Board Approves $20M in F1 Spending
The board of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority unanimously approved $20 million in spending on the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix The money, which comes from visitor room taxes, covers the 2026 and 2027 races Glowing reports of the race's...
All’s Not Grand at Vegas’ Downtown Grand
The Downtown Grand is suffering financial hardships The casino has shortened the hours for when its table games are playable and has permanently closed the Freedom Beat restaurant Rumors suggest the casino's owners are looking to offload the property Las Vegas’ Downtown...
