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Mel Larson has been named the president of the Sahara hotel-casino.

A national ant-gambling group leader voiced strong opposition against MGM Mirage taking over the Rosemont, Illinois, casino project during a meeting with the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

At a meeting with Nevada Gaming Control Board, nine former and present MGM Mirage workers complained about having to work in a hostile, sexist, racially insensitive environment.

News Brief: Las Vegas City Council has voted again to not lend its name to Internet Gambling.

Attorneys for Station Casinos Inc. and MGM Mirage will meet with a lawyer for a proposed hotel-casino and timeshare property to attempt to reach a compromise on differences over the 24-story planned in their neighborhood.

The managers of Detroit's Greektown Casino received a license recommendation from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to take over the casino operations of the JW Marriott Las Vegas.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board questioned Bally's-Paris casino executive Joseph Rahi, trying to determine whether Rahi recognized his role in an apparent money laundering scheme.

District Court judge Valerie Vega has ruled that the ban on temporary body markings implemented by the Nevada Athletic Commission violated boxer's rights to free speech.

News Brief: Celine Dion will play Caesars Palace in Vegas five nights a week for three years for a reported $100 million. Will other pop stars follow suit?

Resort Magic, a subsidiary of USA Investment Partners, Las Vegas, plans a $100 million, 40-story tower with 426 timeshare units at the site at Convention Center Drive, near Las Vegas Boulevard.

The National Association of Television Program Executives is being sued by a hotel that claims it failed to pay for rooms and meeting space reserved for a January event.

Three months after the $265 million Palms hotel-casino opened its doors, the property's president says he's happy with the early results.

Former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone has filed a libel suit against Station Casinos executives over an anonymous flier that was critical of his vote approving the casino of a competitor.

Station Casinos and MGM Mirage are appealing the approval of a 460-unit hotel-casino and timeshare property.

New Frontier dealers are scheduled to hear details of the pending contract with the Strip hotel-casino, which would be the first-ever signed by a Las Vegas casino and its dealers.

The Venetian's three-year legal battle to keep union protesters off its sidewalks came to a quiet end this morning when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the resort's appeal of a circuit court decision.

News Brief: 260 Japanese visitors arrived Friday at McCarran International Airport aboard Japan Airlines, marking the return of nonstop air service from Tokyo.

Twenty-three hotels convinced a Nevada board to reduce the taxable values of their properties by a combined total of about $1 billion, which will mean about $10 million less in property taxes during the 2002-2003 fiscal.

Las Vegas officials want to revitalize a rundown downtown neighborhood east of the Fremont Street Experience by bringing more taverns and nightclubs into the area.

News Brief: Aladdin Gaming is actively seeking buyers for the bankrupt Strip megaresort. Candidates could include Stratosphere owner Carl Icahn and Silverton owner Ed Roski Jr..