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Vegas casino mogul sends moon rocks to NASA

Last updated Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 10:02am

LAS VEGAS -- It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon.

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From left, Nate Sackett, 25, of Salt Lake City, Utah, friend Andy Kunz, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, brother Connor Sackett, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, and friend Dylan Jones, 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah, strike a pose while having their photograph taken by a friend in front of the sign welcoming visitors to Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 21, 2012. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Vegas sign a tourist attraction in its own right

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 10:43am

LAS VEGAS -- It sits along a stretch of median on the less-glamorous south end of this city's glitzy gambling Strip, a stubborn holdover from another era. Yet, as the days turn to night and back into day, it beckons as many tourists, human tumbleweeds and adventure-seekers as any newfangled casino.

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Las Vegas wants some respect

John Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 6:00pm

LAS VEGAS -- The boys sat there swilling coffee and bemoaning a depressing reality: What happens in this town doesn't necessarily stay here -- thanks, they say, to the national media spreading scuttlebutt.

The gossip doesn't involve a tawdry tryst in a hotel room off the Strip. These days, the diciest Sin City escapade is just trying to scratch out a living here, claim the news reports.

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Mila Kunis, a cast member in the upcoming film "Oz: The Great and Powerful," poses before the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2012, the official convention of the National Association of Theater Owners, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

CinemaCon Celebrities in Las Vegas

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 10:46am

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Emergency medical technician Debra Lund, right, prepares to hang an IV bag as co-worker Stacey Kreitlow, center, inserts an IV catheter into the arm of a patient, Sunday, April 15, 2012, in Las Vegas. The bus picked up 16 patients on its first weekend as a mobile treatment center for tourists who spent the night before drinking in all the nightlife Las Vegas has to offer. For a fee, they get a quick morning-after way to rehydrate, rejuvenate and resume their revelry. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Las Vegas Hangover Bus

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 23, 2012 - 11:46am

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The Strip in Las Vegas offers plenty to see and do, even if you're not a gambler.

Ten reasons to visit Vegas now

George Hobica airfarewatchdog.com

Last updated Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 7:11am

Some people hate Vegas, some can't live without it. Count me somewhere in between. I've visited many times over the last 20 years, both for work and pleasure, and never fail to enjoy myself.

Here are 10 reasons to visit Las Vegas now:

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The Bellagio fountain sprays in sync with music during one of its afternoon shows, Tuesday, March 20, 2012, in Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Water Authority won approval Thursday from Nevada's state engineer to pump up to 84,000 acre-feet of water from rural areas along the Nevada-Utah line to quench the thirst of the Las Vegas Valley. The water would provide a backup to drought-stricken Lake Mead. That's where Las Vegas currently gets almost all its drinking water. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Vegas water pipeline still years away

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 3:07pm

LAS VEGAS -- Water officials in Nevada's most populous city have one crucial approval in hand.

But they but still need another -- and billions of dollars -- before shovels hit the ground on a massive pipeline project to supply water from rural eastern Nevada to Las Vegas.

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Parents accused of leaving children home alone, flying to Vegas

Rosemary Sobol Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 5:14pm

CHICAGO -- Child endangerment charges have been filed against an Uptown couple accused of flying to Las Vegas and leaving their two children, 12 and 9, home alone for nearly two days, police said.

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Tebow draws 20,000 to appearance at Vegas church

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 2:29pm

LAS VEGAS -- This weekend, the long lines, huge crowds and jersey-clad sports fans in Las Vegas were jockeying for a chance to get into church.

An estimated 20,000 people, including one family that arrived at 4 a.m. Saturday to be the first in line, showed up at Canyon Ridge Christian Church over the weekend to hear Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow share about faith and football.

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Vegas learned if you build it tourists will come

David Brussat The Providence Journal

Last updated Friday, March 2, 2012 - 11:24am

LAS VEGAS -- With Las Vegas booming in the 1950s, casinos were built farther and farther out on old Route 91 to intercept gamblers driving in from Los Angeles, who after 265 weary desert miles would surely stop at the first casino, right? Well, pretty soon Las Vegas was leapfrogging its merry way toward California, creating the Strip.

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(STEVE MARCUS/Standard-Examiner) Benjamin Gerard Hawkins (center) confers with defense attorneys James Kelly (left) and Jack Buchanan during a preliminary hearing in District Court in Las Vegas, Nev. on Tuesday. Hawkins, a Gainesville, Fla. teacher, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of another tourist after an altercation while visiting a Las Vegas Strip casino in July 2011.

Former Florida coach to face trial in Vegas death of Roy man

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 9:31pm

LAS VEGAS — A former Florida high school football coach will stand trial in Nevada on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the one-punch death of a man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino restroom, a judge decided Tuesday.

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Ex-football coach faces reduced charge in one-punch death of Roy man in Vegas

Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 4:22pm

LAS VEGAS — A judge is considering whether a former Florida high school football coach should stand trial on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the one-punch slaying of a Roy, Utah man after racial insults in a Las Vegas Strip casino.

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Customer at Vegas’ Heart Attack Grill suffers heart attack

Tiffany Hsu Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 6:55pm

LAS VEGAS — In one of the more unfortunate cases of a company living up to its name, a man dining at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas had exactly what was on the menu: a heart attack.

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Weapons are on display at The Mob Museum on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in Las Vegas. It includes an oddball collection of household items — a shovel, a hammer, a baseball bat and an icepick— showing the creative side of some of America's most notorious killers. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Las Vegas opens new Mob Museum

Ashley Powers Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 6:08pm

LAS VEGAS -- In this casino town partly built on gangster money, it's a sentiment you hear with some frequency: "Things were better when the mob ran Vegas."

It conveys a certain wistfulness for the smaller, ostensibly friendlier city where, decades ago, locals shrugged at mobsters' running casinos and reinventing themselves as civic leaders. Sports handicapper Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal hosted a television show. Bootlegger Moe Dalitz helped build a hospital.

The city began formally cashing in on its mafia legacy Tuesday with the opening of the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement -- better known as the Mob Museum.

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Green Bay Packers' Matt Flynn hands off to Ryan Grant (25) during the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

Vegas: Packers have best shot to win Super Bowl

Oskar Garcia The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 3:20pm

LAS VEGAS -- Casinos in Las Vegas think Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have a better shot at winning the Super Bowl than Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos have of getting past the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend.

Oddsmakers at Cantor Gaming have the Packers as 9-5 favorites to win the Super Bowl on Feb. 5, and the Broncos as 120-1 underdogs to win the NFL title.

But the Packers (15-1) are weak enough on defense to make it more likely that another team will prevent them from repeating as champions, Cantor Race & Sports Director Mike Colbert said.

"Offense seems to rule the day right now in the NFL, but I'm not sure that defense will be able to hold up long enough to win it all," Colbert said.

Sports gambling expert RJ Bell of Pregame.com says that after adjusting for fees, sports books think the Packers, the top seed in the NFC, have a 32 percent chance of winning the Super Bowl.

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