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  • Tupac ShakurLifestyle

    After a 27-year hunt, someone has finally been indicted for murder in the shooting of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur

    By Rio Yamat, Ken Ritter, and others
  • Caesars PalaceTech

    Casino giant Caesars Entertainment hit by cyberattack, joining rival MGM Resorts as victim of data breach

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Caesars Entertainment Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 1. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Caesars confirms cyberattack and says ‘we cannot guarantee’ that personal data of millions of customers is secure

    By Ken Ritter and Bloomberg
  • FILE – The Wynn Las Vegas resort stands over the Las Vegas strip, July 26, 2023, in Las Vegas. According to court documents filed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, Wynn Resorts and nine unnamed women have told a federal judge that they’re settling a lawsuit alleging the casino company failed to investigate allegations that female employees had been sexually harassed by former company CEO Steve Wynn. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil, File)Finance

    Wynn Resorts settles lawsuit alleging casino firm didn’t investigate claims female employees were sexually harassed by ex-CEO Steve Wynn

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • (031516 Malden,MA) Steve Wynn talks about his proposed Everett casino and unveils a new model at a press conference in Malden on Tuesday,March 15, 2016. Staff Photo by Nancy Lane (Photo by Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)Leadership

    Casino mogul Steve Wynn pays $10 million to settle sexual misconduct investigation and ‘bring this sordid affair to conclusion’

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Casino mogul Steve Wynn pauses at a news conference in Medford, Mass., on March 15, 2016. Wynn’s long legal fight with Nevada gambling regulators over claims of workplace sexual misconduct is expected to end Thursday, July 27, 2023, with a settlement calling for him to pay a $10 million fine and cut virtually all ties to the industry he helped shape in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)Finance

    Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn will pay $10 million and cut industry ties to settle workplace sexual misconduct claims

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • FILE – People attend a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday, May 22, proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)Environment

    3 Western states say they’ll cut their water use from the Colorado River if the U.S. government pays them $1.2 billion

    By Suman Naishadham, Ken Ritter, and others
  • LA-Vegas high-speed railPolitics

    Both parties want high-speed rail from LA to Vegas to get ‘more people spending money at our hotels, restaurants, casinos, and small businesses’

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • Construction continues on the Tesla Motor Inc. Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Tesla officially opened its Gigafactory on Tuesday, a little more than two years after construction began. The factory is about 14 percent complete but when it’s finished, it will be about 10 million square feet, or about the size of 262 NFL football fields. Photographer: Troy Harvey/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Nevada hands Tesla $330 million in tax breaks for a factory expansion that’s supposed to create 3,000 jobs

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • Cristiano Ronaldo

    Lawyer takes on Cristiano Ronaldo for hush money in decade-old sexual assault case—and has to pay his legal fees

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 11: Hotels and attractions, including MGM Grand, Tropicana and Excalibur Hotels & Casinos, and T-Mobile Arena, along the Las Vegas Strip are viewed looking north from the air on January 11, 2022 over Las Vegas, Nevada. Conventions and gamblers have once again returned in large numbers to Sin City despite a surge of infections and hospitalizations due to the Omicron Covid virus. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)Tech

    Las Vegas visitors pay too much for hotel rooms because big resorts use ‘under-the-table deals’ to jack up prices, lawsuit says

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 10: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) listens to questions from reporters during a news conference after their weekly policy meeting with Senate Republicans, at the U.S. Capitol, May 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. Presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled meet with Republican House and Senate leadership on Thursday. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Politics

    Harry Reid, Nevada’s longest-serving member of Congress and former U.S. Senate majority leader, dies at 82

    By Laurie Kellman, Ken Ritter, and others
  • Storm Area 51Politics

    ‘Storm Area 51’ Spawns Festivals—And Disorder

    By Ken Ritter and The Associated Press