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Mob Museum Spotlights 90 Years of Legal Gambling in Nevada
The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is celebrating 90 years of legal gambling in the Silver State with a two-part speaker series on the mobsters and others who built the casino industry....
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Step Closer to Linking Casino to Las Vegas Convention Center
A tunnel for a people-mover connecting the Las Vegas Convention Center to Resorts World Las Vegas is another step closer to being built. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of...
Resorts World Las Vegas Flooded With 85K Applicants for 6K Jobs
A hotel-casino set to open this summer on the Las Vegas Strip is being swamped with job applications. This comes as the coronavirus pandemic has dealt a sharp blow to Southern Nevada’s...
Mob Museum in Las Vegas Hosts Presentation on Kevyn Wynn Kidnapping
The federal prosecutor who worked to put Kevyn Wynn’s 1993 kidnappers behind bars is set to speak Thursday at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Kevyn Wynn is the daughter of casino...
Las Vegas Era From Movie ‘Casino’ Gone Forever: Former Mobster?
Near the end of his life last summer, former mobster Frank Cullotta said Las Vegas as depicted in the movie Casino will never come back. Dennis N. Griffin, who has written several...
Two Nevadans Who Influenced Casino Industry Died at End of 2020?
Joe Neal and George Swarts, two Nevadans who helped shape and enforce gaming policy in Nevada, have died. A North Las Vegas Democrat and Nevada’s first Black state senator, Neal died on...
‘Bugsy’ Siegel Artifacts from Flamingo Casino Displayed at Mob Museum in Las Vegas?
The Mob Museum in Las Vegas has unveiled an exhibit with items from the 1940s Flamingo Casino and the gangster who opened it, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. A New York organized crime figure,...
Reputed Mobster Ordered Killing Over Suspected Gambling Machine Theft: Prosecutors
Prosecutors in New York want a judge to consider a 1997 stabbing death to figure into the sentencing this spring of a reputed Genovese family mobster, according to a news report. The...
Las Vegas Casinos Can Restore Magic of Earlier Era by Reconnecting With Customers: Gaming Expert
By getting back to “personalized attention,” Las Vegas casinos can recapture the magic that defined the famous Rat Pack era from decades ago, says a gaming historian. David G. Schwartz told Casino.org...
Resorts World Las Vegas to Interview Candidates for 6,000 Jobs, As Tourism Remains Slow
Job interview invitations are going out within days to potential employees for the 6,000 jobs at Resorts World Las Vegas. This is happening as tourism in Las Vegas is in a slump....