Vegas News

Four locals were onboard a small plane that crashed in a residential area outside of Las Vegas Monday. The pilot, identified by family-members as 45 year old Douglas Touchet of Erath was killed in the crash. Touchet’s wife, Susan was critically injured, their friends Randall and Tamika Savoy of Catahoula also sustained serious injuries.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the plane took off from Henderson Executive Airport shortly after 8 a.m. and was unable to gain altitude. Touchet tried to return to Henderson but crashed about two miles northwest of the airport.

More visitors are expected to travel to southern Nevada this Labor Day weekend, but they might spend less than last year, according to local tourism officials.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is projecting 290,000 visitors during the holiday weekend, up 2.8 percent from the 282,000 tourists who visited last year.

The University of Wisconsin Badgers football season kicks off Saturday, and unfortunately, I’m not as excited about coach Bret Bielema’s crew as I probably should be, considering this has the makings of a pretty good team.

After all, I’m a Wisconsin native and if for no other reason the fact that a portion of my tax dollars goes to support our university system should have me humming “On Wisconsin” in the shower every morning.

The gambling industry’s marquee conference is moving to the Sands Expo and Convention Center in 2011.

American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf (FAIR’-en-koff) said Tuesday the three-year deal also shifts the Global Gaming Expo from November to early October.

Once one of the most sought after celebrities for Las Vegas nightclubs, Paris Hilton’s pay-to-party days in Sin City may be numbered because of her felony cocaine arrest.

“Because Vegas nightclubs are under so much scrutiny right now, I don’t know how welcome she would be,” says a club executive who has booked Hilton, 29, to host parties. “Considering she’s busted for cocaine, people might assume that she’s going to the club either to use coke or she’s already on coke, and no club wants to be associated with that.”

Former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq has married TV critic Charlie Brooker in a ceremony in Las Vegas, it has been confirmed.

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A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable even to search dogs.

Bill James apparently had no idea that the body of his pack-rat wife, Billie Jean, was under the same roof as he helped police scour the home and the Nevada desert for any sign of her. Then he spotted the feet of the body poking out of a floor-to-ceiling pile of junk Wednesday, revealing in shocking detail the woman’s penchant for hoarding.

A four-month search for a missing Las Vegas woman came to a ghastly end this week when her husband found her corpse in their home amid a labyrinth of squalor that had been impassable even to search dogs.

Bill James apparently had no idea that the body of his pack-rat wife, Billie Jean, was under the same roof as he helped police scour the home and the Nevada desert for any sign of her. Then he spotted the feet of the body poking out of a floor-to-ceiling pile of junk Wednesday, revealing in shocking detail the woman’s penchant for hoarding.

Michael Jordan’s sons Marcus and Jeffrey visited Las Vegas this weekend and publicized their lavish spending by ‘tweeting’ about their $56,000 in a single day.

The sons of the legendary basketball player were joined by friend UCF junior point guard A.J. Rompza to attend Jordan’s Fantasy Basketball Camp at the Mirage Resort Casino, which costs between $13,500 and $15,000 per person.

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas hotel-casino is joining forces with Marriott International Inc., giving Marriott loyalists an option to stay on the Las Vegas Strip and the Cosmopolitan a head start on attracting customers.

The under-construction resort on Wednesday said it has sealed a distribution agreement with Marriott to be part of its Autograph Collection, a set of independent upscale hotels the franchiser launched last year.