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Mentally ill man missing in alleged pattern of ‘patient dumping’ by Nevada health officials
A schizophrenic man has gone missing after an instance of alleged “patient dumping” by Nevada state mental health officials. According to a Wednesday report by Las Vegas’ CBS Channel 8, a patient named James Brown was allegedly sent from Rawson-Neal psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas to Sacramento, California with only…
Las Vegas cop allegedly kills wife and 5-year-old son, then himself
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer allegedly killed his 46-year-old wife and 5-year-old son on Monday before phoning emergency personnel and warning he was burning down his home and would kill anyone who tries to stop him. When police arrived on the scene, officer Hans P. Walters, a 20-year…
‘Party train’ to link California and Las Vegas
While the future for cross-country high-speed rail in America is questionable, one company is working on a specialized kind of rail service: a “party train” linking San Bernadino County in California to Las Vegas, Nev., reported Newsy. The Las Vegas Railway Express has signed an agreement with Union Pacific to…
Massive cleanup underway for Las Vegas hoarder’s home
Las Vegas officials are cleaning up what they call the worst case of “hoarding” they have ever seen — and it’s far from over. “We estimated 15 truckloads, we’ve taken out 18 and we are about one-third through the house,” city spokesperson David Riggleman told The Las Vegas Review Journal,…
Las Vegas eyes turnaround, as Obama bets on recovery
Like “everybody” in 2005, Las Vegas casino worker Jay Nagasako bought his house — for $244,000, thinking it was a one-way bet to wealth and security. This year he sold it for $75,000, losing a fortune but saying: “You have to move on with your life.” In the four years…
Las Vegas vows to shun ‘exploiters of Prince Harry’
What happens in Vegas famously should stay in Vegas — and Sin City lashed out Friday at those who it says betrayed both Prince Harry and this law of omerta by leaking pictures of him partying nude. The Nevada gambling city ran a full-page ad in the USA Today newspaper…
Royal family told British press not to print nude Prince Harry photos
The royal family warned the country’s newspapers not to publish nude photographs of Prince Harry cavorting with friends on holiday in Las Vegas. The photographs, published in the United States by celebrity news website TMZ.com, showed the third-in-line to the throne naked in a hotel suite. In one of the…
‘Hangover Heaven’ bus offers ‘cure’ for a night of drinking in Las Vegas
It’s Sunday lunchtime in Las Vegas and Justin looks like he wants to curl up and die. He has a monster hangover after drinking for two days solid. But help, he hopes, is at hand. The 38-year-old from Seattle is among the first customers trying out a new service, “Hangover…
Mike Tyson trades punches for punchlines in stage show
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Fighting legend Mike Tyson hit the red carpet on Saturday as he swapped the boxing ring for the cabaret stage, in a revealing one-man show about his rollercoaster life. The 45-year-old pulls few punches in recounting his highs — the fame and fortune he earned as…
Las Vegas bets on desert water pipeline as Nevada drinks itself dry
There was a time during the cold war when the Pentagon wanted to bury hundreds of nuclear missiles in the vast emptiness of Nevada, in case the United States came under attack from the Soviet Union. In a 21st-century version of an existential struggle in the desert, the city of…
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