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New Year’s Eve is often a night of excess, and Las Vegas corners the market on indulgence. Some people might go overboard with drinks on the Strip. Others will dance the night away in clubs.Foodies will almost certainly ring in 2012 with good eats. Strip restaurants are rolling out the red carpet to accommodate them [...]
It was the day after Christmas, and Kimberly Carrabotta could be found delicately arranging a display of markdown earrings as she chatted with customers looking for deals on what retailers have dubbed Mega Monday. Shoppers are hitting stores to make returns, exchange unwanted gifts and catch final holiday sales. “I do expect a lot to [...]
This New Year’s Weekend you can choose to party with three-quarters of the Kardashians, one-half of the Black Eyed Peas, or two one-quarter of theJersey Shore cast. Those are just a handful of the celeb hosts in town for what has become one of the biggest nights in the world of Las Vegas nightlife. Start planning [...]
A 3.9 percent increase in passengers at McCarran International Airport in November virtually assures the nation’s eighth-busiest airport will serve more than 40 million passengers this year — a benchmark offering further evidence of the Las Vegas tourism industry’s recovery. McCarran officials reported this morning that 3.3 million passengers passed through the airport’s gates in [...]
If Las Vegas casino bosses could pick the perfect day for New Year’s, it wouldn’t be a Saturday. A Thursday would fit the bill, laying the foundation for a four-day party weekend. A Monday would be almost as good, with a long weekend run-up the festivities. To be sure, no one’s complaining about this year’s [...]
Metro Police have arrested 29-year-old Jose Antonio Rodriquez in connection with the death of his girlfriend, whose body was found early Friday morning in an apartment parking lot. Police found Rodriquez on Sunday in the 5800 block of West Harmon Avenue, where he was captured without incident, police said. He was booked into the Clark [...]
Black Friday shoppers are out in force today — for some, their second day of shopping because some stores opened their doors Thursday night. On the Strip, Jim McMichael, marketing director at Fashion Show Mall, said the crowds were larger than ever. Forever 21 and Macy’s were among several retailers in the mall that opened [...]
Clay McRae is something of a recent exception as far as Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Nevada and Utah is concerned. Out of work for nearly two years, possibly on the verge of losing his home to foreclosure, McRae walked in the front door of the nonprofit early Monday in pursuit of help, something a [...]
Hand-held devices in the palms of Apple Store employees throughout the country are at the forefront of the digitization of retailing. At Apple’s retail outlets, gone are the lengthy checkout lines that formed at registers during holiday seasons in the not-so-distant past. Instead, shoppers dropping big bucks on the latest laptops or iPhone 4s hand [...]
Two subcontractors have joined the general contractor in fighting plans by MGM Resorts International to implode the unused Harmon Tower at CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip. The CityCenter casino-resort complex, half owned and managed by MGM Resorts International, says the 26-story hotel structure is unsafe because of construction defects and needs to come down. [...]