Nevada News - Page 529

They call them fleas. Casino cons. Guys who buzz around the betting floor, looking for a scam or a cheat or a fleece.

What happens in Vegas is getting reproduced all over the country, to the chagrin of Southern Nevada tourism boosters trying to protect Sin City's trademarked slogans.

What February's hosting of the NBA All-Star Game didn't bring to the Strip was gamblers.

Aquarius Casino Resort offers a special package for the 25th Annual Laughlin River Run.

The Signature at MGM Grand announced today the July opening of its third 576-suite tower.

After a year of digging down, construction on the Cosmopolitan began its ascent skyward Monday with the placement of its first 50-foot high steel beam.

Workers foundd 675 pounds of loose change worth nearly $10,000 at closed Nevada Landing casino.

Armed with an accounting degree, Gregg Gale found intrigue and glamour when he joined the Gaming Control Board as an auditor in 1979.

Binion's showing a negative cash flow of more than $3 million was bad enough. But the news got worse for the Fremont Street hotel.

Gaming companies would rather not discuss the prospect of Nevada casinos being forced to go nonsmoking in the near future.

Cheetah Wireless Technologies is making sure that Las Vegas tourists maintain some connection to the outside world, at least as much of it as they can download by laptop computer.

MGM Mirage and Herbst Gaming, Inc. have completed their previously announced transaction involving the sale of Buffalo Bill's, Primm Valley and Whiskey Pete's hotel-casinos for $400 million.

ews Brief: Topaz Lodge and Casino will be closed an undetermined time after sustaining substantial damage in Tuesday's fire.

The Flamingo is continuing to try to redefine itself in the face of bigger, more modern developments on the Strip. But it's not going away anytime soon, an official says.

According to James Edwards, investigator for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, technology and methods of the cheaters evolve, the casinos and gaming companies adapt and catch up.

Lucky guests at the Plaza and Main Street Station will wander up to their rooms this weekend and realize they've got some of the best seats in town for the inaugural Vegas Grand Prix.

The famous Flamingo Las Vegas recently began the second phase of its extensive room renovation.

International News Brief: Macao says it has overtaken the Las Vegas Strip as the world's biggest casino draw, raking in more than $7 billion in 2006.

Losses at Binion's increased substantially in 2006, fueling talk that the owners should sell the historic Las Vegas property to a company better-suited to succeed in the stagnant downtown casino market.

The Shops in Desert Passage at the Aladdin will begin operating as Miracle Mile Shops in May 2007.