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1983 stories by Corey Levitan
WinnaVegas Casino Closes Amid Surging Midwest Floodwaters
WinnaVegas Casino Resort in Sloan, Iowa closed at 10 a.m.Tuesday, June 25th, out of “an abundance of caution” over flooding across the American Midwest. “The safety of our associates and our guests is paramount,” WinnaVegas GM Tom Teesdale said in a news...
VEGAS MUSIC ROUNDUP: Life is Unrecognizable, Thomas Rhett & Tom Jones Info, The Who to Play Sphere?
When the organizers of the annual Life is Beautiful Las Vegas music festival announced the lineup on Tuesday for their renamed and seriously downsized “A Big Beautiful Block Party,” the response was a giant “WHO??” Headlining the block party will be French electronic...
NY Mets Owner Buys $50M Slice of Las Vegas Sphere
Baseballs aren’t the only round things fancied by Steve Cohen. According to Sportico, the owner of the New York Mets recently picked up a 5.5% stake in the Las Vegas Sphere. Cohen bought 1.56 million shares of Sphere Entertainment, which includes the...
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to Horse Racing Anti-Doping & Safety Law
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to the recently implemented Horse Racing and Safety Act (HRSA). That means the federal law, which has led to national medication and antidoping rules, still stands as it was enacted in 2020...
Las Vegas Strip Casino Sued Over Car Stolen from its Valet
A California couple looked forward to a weekend getaway when they arrived at Paris Las Vegas on Friday, June 24, 2022, and handed their car keys to a valet attendant. On Saturday morning, Jennifer Marquecho returned to the valet to retrieve her...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The Aliens Are at it Again With the Monoliths
On June 16, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department tweeted that one of its volunteer search and rescue organizations found “a mysterious monolith” in the desert 16 miles north of downtown. Posts about the reflective triangular column, which stood 10 feet tall,...
Caesars Palace Las Vegas to Fold Poker Room for 2-3 Months
Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip is closing its poker room for a renovation expected to take two or three months. That’s according to a company memo emailed to employees and intercepted by Poker News. Unfortunately for the 18-table poker room,...
THE NUTTY ASSESSOR: Auction for Jerry Lewis’ Vegas House Starts at $1M
The longtime Las Vegas home of beloved comedian Jerry Lewis is going up for auction in a week. The auction will be held during an offer presentation and open house from 2 to 4 p.m. PT June 29, according to the Las...
‘Life is Beautiful’ Vegas Music Fest Scaling Way Back
This year, life will still be beautiful but much smaller. The annual “Life is Beautiful” Las Vegas music festival -- held on 18 city blocks along East Fremont Street for 10 years -- is being rerouted to a single vacant lot next...
Tupac Shakur Murder Suspect Secures $750K Bail
The man accused of orchestrating the 1996 murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas has secured money for bail. Posting the $750,00 could get Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 61, released from prison to serve under house arrest until his trial....
