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New phenomenon makes late-night dining a more diverse and interesting proposition than ever before.

Under Icahn's plan, bondholders would have received stock in exchange for their notes.

Suspects continued to be held without bond pending trial on robbery, attempted murder and grand larceny charges.

Las Vegas now expects approximately 36.7 million visitors for 2000.

The company also announced subpoenas for its top two executives. Some analysts lowered their ratings, others raised theirs.

Despite the addition of 500,000 square feet of shops at the nearby Venetian, the Forum Shops increased average sales last year to $1,400 per square foot.

The big winner wasn't gambling, but suing a former colleague over a "purloined Pepsi."

The anti-union Venetian says it can bar picketers because it owns the sidewalk. Yet the public has free access to the sidewalk.

The Aladdin's Desert Passage, which will compete with the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, is 98 percent pre-leased.

Gregg Giuffria, who was recently re-elected to the company's board, has been the subject of a probe by the SEC into his stock trading, the company said.

The hotel-casino says all 2,600 rooms will be finished for the Aug. 17 opening, but only 1,500 rooms will be immediately available.

The man who is buying the Las Vegas Hilton is expected to move it from high-end to mid-level gaming, and compete for local business.

Park Place Entertainment financed a group that opposed - on environmental grounds -- a rival casino firm's expansion plan in Biloxi, Mississippi.

The Guggenheim Museum is in talks with Sheldon Adelson for a branch at the Venetian. MGM Mirage is working the Phillips Collection.

The wrestling group wants a new, larger site. Meanwhile, it's working on a new football league.

Jack Sommer, one of the owners, was questioned about his finances. The $1.4 billion Strip resort will open Aug. 17.

The Wall Street Journal explains how a New York developer stuck his British partner with cost overruns at the $1.4 billion Aladdin, which opens next month.

The Las Vegas beauty salon infringes on its trademark, the hotel-casino says, and diverts customers from its own salon.

Slot machine play drove the gaming win up, but at a lower rate than the three previous months. Table win declined.

The family, which is also renovating the defunct Continental hotel-casino, is paying $45 million cash. Jackpot is leaving the gaming business.