Blog: Elsewhere

Bodyguard for Floyd Mayweather Jr. out of hospital after shooting in Atlanta

Citing the Atlanta Police Department, ESPN reports that a bodyguard for Floyd Mayweather Jr. was wounded in a shooting early today as a group of three cars …

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2017 Atlantic City visitors lowest in 30 years, report says

Tourist visits to the city last year were the lowest since the early 1980s, according to a recent report from the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism at Stockton University, but officials believe …

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Station Casinos forces Reno’s Feast restaurant to change name

The feast will go on — but not as Feast. The Midtown Reno restaurant must change its name following a deal with Station Casinos Inc., the holder of two …

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How the Raiders got comfortable with sports betting

The NFL and Las Vegas have grown up together, an upstart sports league from the East Coast and a liberal city in the desert coming of age to emerge as icons in American culture …

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Gonzaga won’t leave West Coast Conference for Mountain West

Gonzaga is staying put in the West Coast Conference, athletic director Mike Roth said. The Zags, who have been considering a move to the Mountain West Conference for …

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David Humm, former Raiders, Bishop Gorman great, dies at age 65

Las Vegas native David Humm, one of the best passing quarterback in Nebraska football history who went on win two Super Bowls with the Raiders, died Tuesday night from …

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Friends turn $800 into $17K in Vegas thanks to UMBC’s upset of Virginia

In the history of the NCAA Tournament, No. 16 seeds hadn’t won a game in 135 previous attempts against top-seeded teams. That changed Friday when …

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East Bay officials may sue NFL, Raiders over team’s Las Vegas move

The Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors are in talks with a pair of out-of-town law firms looking to sue the NFL and the Raiders for upward of $500 million over the …

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Heller thinks Justice Kennedy could save his re-election bid

Dean Heller knows he’s the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country. But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang …

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Mountain West confirms it has talked expansion with Gonzaga; BYU in mix

Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson on Wednesday told the Union-Tribune he has held discussions with Gonzaga about leaving the West Coast Conference for the Mountain West …

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Carson City landmark restaurant Café at Adele’s up for sale

After 40 years of business, the historic Café at Adele’s restaurant is up for sale. Owners Charlie and Karen Abowd are looking toward retirement and have put the restaurant and the …

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Wildest MLS preseason game ever? What happened when Whitecaps hit Las Vegas

Sola was kicked out of the game — but, technically, didn’t leave. He was pictured in the stands at Cashman Field having a cigarette …

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One dead in plane crash south of Carson City

One person is confirmed dead in the crash of a twin-engined light passenger plane off of Hobo Hot Springs Road south of …

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With ruling on national sports betting due, will Las Vegas ever be the same?

Back in the September of his years, Frank Sinatra would take the mic and command this little lounge stage. Still the headliner of all headliners at The Sands, four miles down The Strip, Sinatra would escape to this neighborhood joint, the …

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Is the Trump administration contemplating a nuclear test in Nevada?

At a vast tract of uninhabited desert in southern Nevada, hundreds of moonlike craters dimple the wasteland, remnants of Cold War nuclear explosions that …

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