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UNLV Prof Killed in Mass Shooting Has Burglars Hit Las Vegas Home
Burglars have added to the misery of those who loved and admired Naoko Takemaru, one of three professors murdered in the December 6 mass shooting at UNLV. Three people burglarized Takemaru’s Las Vegas home on December 26, according to KLAS-TV/Las Vegas, which...
Las Vegas Outlaws Standing Still on Pedestrian Bridges
No, you didn’t click on The Onion by mistake. When the governing body overseeing the Las Vegas Strip introduced this bill on November 22, few believed it would pass. Who in their right mind would declare standing still on a pedestrian bridge...
VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: New Strip Food Court, Health Closures
A new food collective is coming to the Strip. Miracle Mile Shops (MMS), the indoor mall adjacent to Planet Hollywood, plans to launch Miracle Eats in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a company press release. The new food court will...
LOST VEGAS: The Lucky Strike Prospector Statues
When the Lucky Strike Club casino opened in 1954 at 117 Fremont St. in downtown Las Vegas, two 12-foot prospectors stood guard from the top of its rooftop sign. Seventy years later, those statues are still around. They have survived three casino...
Vegas Myths We COULDN’T Bust in 2023
We'll start off 2024 with an admission ... No matter how much we tried and tried again, we didn't always succeed. Though we are fairly certain that the oft-repeated Las Vegas stories below are all baloney, we have yet to come up...
Legendary Las Vegas Comic Shecky Greene Dead at 97
Legendary Las Vegas comic Shecky Greene died at his Las Vegas home on New Year's Eve at age 97. His wife of 41 years, Marie Musso Greene, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal he died of natural causes. Greene, along with Don Rickles...
Tupac Murder Suspect May Have Ordered Witness Death From Jail: Report
Duane Keith “Keffe D” Davis, accused murderer of superstar rapper Tupac Shakur, may have ordered -- or at least approved of -- the murder of a witness in his case from jail. Prosecutors made this shocking allegation in court paperwork filed on...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Las Vegas Strip is in the City of Las Vegas
EDITOR'S NOTE: "Vegas Myths Busted" publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today's entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Oct. 28, 2022. The "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada" sign is a liar, not about the fabulous part,...
Las Vegas Strip’s Oldest Rooms Permanently Closed Since November
It’s no longer news that the Tropicana Las Vegas is not long for this world. Sometime in the next couple of years, if all goes according to plan, the casino resort will be imploded to make space for a baseball stadium for...
Tommy Smothers: Las Vegas Loses Another Icon in 2023
Tommy Smothers, the elder half of the legendary Smothers Brothers comedy duo, died Tuesday at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. following a battle with lung cancer. He was 86. "Tom was not only the loving older brother that everyone would want...
