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2028 stories by Corey Levitan
Woman Accused of Mowing Down Las Vegas Strip Pedestrians in 2015 Pleads Guilty
Nearly 10 years after driving her car into 38 pedestrians along the Vegas Strip, Lakeisha Holloway has pleaded guilty to charges filed in connection with the incident Holloway pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder and a charge of battery with...
Fake Justin Bieber Fools Wynn Las Vegas into Letting Him Perform
A Justin Bieber impersonator talked his way onto the stage at XS Nightclub at Encore Las Vegas on Saturday night, and his performance has sparked discussions about how to improve security protocols in Las Vegas. With the same tattoos, confident swagger and...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Women Shouldn’t Wear Red in Casinos
The author of "Why Shouldn't a Woman Wear Red in a Casino?" claims that infrared security cameras can see through sheer or thin red garments on the casino floor A well-known casino security expert calls BS Some women won’t bet on red...
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....
