Recent Las Vegas News

Here’s some of the Las Vegas news that was reported during the last week:

August 27, 2010 In case you wanted to know something you shouldn’t do when your in Las Vegas , the Nevada State Gaming Control Board has fined Caesars Palace $250,000 for allowing a high-limit baccarat player to stand and dance on the card table while the game was being dealt. The board filed a complaint accusing Caesars for failing to take action to protect the game and the customer, who even placed a bet while he was standing on the table. The incident took place last October.

                           “Fox 5 News” reported that as many as twenty-six people have been taken to area hospitals and 100 more are being evaluated following the malfunction of a chlorine injection pump at the MGM Grand pool today. Maintenance is working on the problem and the pool remains closed.

August 26, 2010 Operators of the new Cosmopolitan resort, due to debut on the Strip December 15, have announced a deal with Marriott International to be one of the chain’s Autograph Collection, a portfolio of luxury independent hotels and resorts. This enables Cosmopolitan to market to Marriott’s 32 million travelers which is one of the largest customer databases in that industry.

                            Big-cat magician Dirk Arthur, formerly a long-time performer at the Tropicana, is opening at O’Sheas on Monday, Sept. 13. The show will perform at 7 pm and 9 pm nightly (dark Wednesday and Friday) and General Admission tickets are $22.95. Also, a new musical comedy called Nunsense, which comes from a 10-year run in New York, is performing daily at 4 pm in the Shimmer Cabaret (dark Tuesday) at the Las Vegas Hilton. Tickets start at $19.

                           Want to know what are the safest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Las Vegas, together with stats on crime rates? Go to http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/08/26/safe-and-dangerous-places-in-las-vegas/ to see which areas got the thumbs up, or otherwise, plus the latest crime stats and how they compare with the national average (in particular, note that the car-theft rate is double the national norm).

August 24, 2010 Deutsche Bank, Nevada Property 1 LC, and Nevada Voteco, have been named as defendants in a lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan, in which the plaintiffs claim that its parking garage sits below the water table and is forced to run pumps “around the clock to keep the hotel from filling with water, engulfing both cars and people.”

August 23, 2010 The new nightlife venue in the Miracle Mile Shops which is taking over the space formerly occupied by Hawaiian Tropic Zone is now open for business. It’s a sister property to The Rockhouse Bar at Imperial Palace and it features food, drinks, and apparently a fearsome mechanical bull.

                            The passenger count was down at McCarran International Airport last month for the sixth straight month. Figures released by the Clark County Department of Aviation reveal that 3,518,217 passengers passed through airport last month — a 1.1 percent decline compared with July 2009.

                             It’s been reported that the Nevada (Nuclear) Test Site will henceforth be known as the Nevada National Security Site or N2S2, according to a spokeswoman with the National Nuclear Security Administration.

                              Las Vegas had the first pool-party fatality that I am aware of. A 27-year-old man from Oregon died after suffering a head injury while swimming in the Rehab pool at the Hard Rock yesterday evening (Aug. 22nd). No cause of death has not yet been determined.

August 22, 2010 Steve Wynn, who has the tendency to be obsessive in several areas, has done the same with his new devotion to his vegan diet. Every restaurant in the 5 star rated Wynn and Encore now offers vegan-friendly choices. No other resort in Las Vegas offers as extensive a choice of vegan cuisine.

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