A fire in a three-story apartment building in downtown Las Vegas where residents apparently were using their stoves for heat killed six people and forced some residents to jump from upper-floor windows to escape the smoke before dawn Saturday, authorities said.
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Presidential candidate Joe Biden told a crowd of union members in Las Vegas on Wednesday that he is best qualified to fight for the American worker — and will do so as president of the United States.
Read moreO.J. Simpson claims The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas defamed him by telling TMZ that he was thrown out for being drunk and disruptive at a bar, in Clark County Court
Read moreNearly two years to the day after the massacre at a country music festival in Las Vegas, casino giant MGM Resorts has reached a settlement worth up to $800 million with about 2,500 victims.
Read moreEight Judy Does sued Wynn Resorts in Clark County Court, claiming it refused to investigate their claims of sexual harassment against CEO Steve Wynn, and retaliated against them for speaking about it.
Read moreSoccer star Cristiano Ronaldo won’t face criminal charges after a woman accused him of raping her at a Las Vegas Strip resort in 2009.
Read moreFresh off a victory against Bushmaster in Connecticut, attorneys for victims of the Newtown school shooting brought a new lawsuit against companies whose assault rifles were used by a Las Vegas gunman two years ago at the Route 91 Harvest Musical Festival.
Read moreThe former head of a Tokyo and Las Vegas investment firm was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison for bilking thousands of Japanese victims in what prosecutors called a $1.5 billion international Ponzi scheme that ranks among the largest-ever fraud cases in the U.S.
Read moreCasino giant MGM Resorts told federal regulators Thursday it might pay up to $800 million to settle liability lawsuits stemming from the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas — the deadliest in modern U.S. history.
Read moreA married couple brought a federal complaint against Sun Timepiece Trade LLC, of Las Vegas, saying they paid $235,640 for two Rolex Rainbow Daytona watches that they never received.
Read moreEntrepreneur Elon Musk’s dream of an express tunnel transit system could become a reality in Las Vegas after major setbacks in other cities.
Read moreCristiano Ronaldo is being asked by police to provide a DNA sample in an investigation of a Nevada woman’s allegation that he raped her in his Las Vegas hotel penthouse in 2009 and paid her to keep quiet, the soccer star’s lawyer and Las Vegas police said Thursday.
Read moreU.S. Marshal Brian Montana told Las Vegas police officers that Keith Childress Jr. was wanted for murder, though he was not, and police shot him to death though he was unarmed, relatives of the man say in a federal complaint.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit against bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire yesterday, finding that it couldn’t be held liable for casualties in the massacre at last year’s Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas.
Read moreCommunications were snarled and police, fire and medical responders were overwhelmed by 911 calls, false reports and the number of victims during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to a report released Monday by U.S. and local authorities.
Read moreMore than 10 months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, police say they are closing their investigation without answering the key question: What drove a gunman to unleash a hail of gunfire that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more?
Read moreSurvivors of the mass shooting at an outdoor Las Vegas country music festival this past fall say a pre-emptive lawsuit filed against them by the hotel where the shooter set up is forcing them to relive the tragedy.
Read moreOver the last week, MGM Resorts International has filed lawsuits against hundreds of victims of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, claiming it’s protected from victim lawsuits thanks to a law passed after Sept. 11 that limits liability in terror attacks. But experts say in addition to the obvious public relations problems, MGM’s “novel” legal strategy was never meant for situations like this.
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