At 89, Las Vegas entertainment figure Jean Bennett should be comfortably retired and satisfied with her life’s work promoting and managing the 1950s super group the Platters. She’s not. ...
15 August 2012
By Steve Green
One day after a Sun story detailed a sex discrimination complaint against Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura, a deputy mentioned in the story found himself under investigation for an incident in May.
14 August 2012
By Joe Schoenmann
Defeated Nevada 2010 U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden was sued again Wednesday over allegations she and her campaign failed to pay about $78,000 to a Denver polling and public affairs company.
8 August 2012
By Steve Green
Las Vegas copyright lawsuit company Righthaven LLC suffered another setback Wednesday when an appeals court dismissed one of its appeals. The dismissal was requested by the nonprofit Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO) in Portland, Ore.
8 August 2012
By Steve Green
A local libertarian think tank has sued the Clark County School District in what some say is an apparent attempt to derail the district’s ballot initiative to raise taxes for school maintenance.
7 August 2012
By Paul Takahashi
A former Las Vegas gaming executive tied to an insider stock trading incident has been barred from serving as an officer or director of any public company through late 2014.
6 August 2012
By Steve Green
Talk of death threats kicked off a hearing Monday before a Nevada judge who is being asked to let Wayne Newton's landlord evict the Strip entertainer and his wife or dissolve the business plan to turn their property into a tourist attraction.
30 July 2012
Ken Ritter, Associated Press
A case involving unwanted sexual advances at a Las Vegas workplace resulted in a federal judge requiring the company to implement measures to prevent sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Friday.
30 July 2012
By Jackie Valley
CityCenter executives are considering conducting more destructive inspections of its flawed Harmon Hotel tower on the Las Vegas Strip after a court ruling Friday.
28 July 2012
By Steve Green
A Las Vegas businessman who declared personal bankruptcy must still repay the worthless markers he wrote at two casinos, the Nevada Supreme Court has ruled. The court refused to set aside the bum check convictions of Martin R. Brown.
27 July 2012
By Cy Ryan
Forget about the concept of "worker solidarity" when it comes to the battle over tip pooling at Wynn Las Vegas. A group of Wynn casino dealers trying to block the company from sharing their tips with supervisors faces opposition from, of all things, the powerful Culinary Workers Union.
27 July 2012
By Steve Green
Gaming figure Glenn Schaeffer is countersuing a Las Vegas bank in a dispute over a short sale involving a luxury condominium.
23 July 2012
By Steve Green
Federal regulators have filed what may be the first of multiple lawsuits to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in losses resulting from the 2009 failures of Community Bank of Nevada and sister bank Community Bank of Arizona.
23 July 2012
By Steve Green
With unemployment and foreclosures soaring during the recession, bankruptcy judges in Nevada have had to make tough decisions trying to balance the rights of bankrupt people and businesses with the rights of creditors.
23 July 2012
By Steve Green
A Nevada state judge is giving the go-ahead to raze a flawed hotel tower that never opened when MGM Resorts International and Dubai World opened the rest of the $8.5 billion CityCenter development on the Las Vegas Strip.
19 July 2012
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
