Technically speaking, LVS has soared more than 205% since the beginning of the year, compared to the S&P 500 Index's (SPX) advance of about 23%. What's more, during the past 60 days, LVS has bested the broad-market indicator by 16 percentage points. The equity is now in the process of rebounding from support at its 20-week moving average.

A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck with clear plastic sides.

Hight beat second-place teammate Ashley Force Hood in the first round of eliminations, then pulled out a close final round victory over Jack Beckman to take a 105-point lead in the standings.

Roach had initially forecast the November 14 bout in Las Vegas would go the full distance but he has since changed his tune because of his fighter's impressive work in training camp.

With the triumph in the 4.2 million-dollar event, Laird secured his US playing privileges for two seasons, and pocketed a 756,000-dollar winner's prize.

Laird, who began they day outside the top 125 on the money list and in desperate need of good result to secure his playing card for next season, clinched the title with a par on the 18th while McNeill bogeyed the hole.

The 26-year-old Scot won the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating George McNeill with a birdie on the third hole of a playoff in the Fall Series event.

Campbell, who started the day at the TPC Summerlin tied for 26th, was bogey free and finished off his round in style with an eagle on the par-five ninth to post a combined 13-under total of 129.

Pernice, 50, shared the lead in the 4.2 million-dollar tournament with Troy Matteson and Spencer Levin. Pernice's nine birdies included back-to-back birdies at his closing holes, eight and nine.

The 50-year-old Pernice Jr., whose last win on the PGA Tour was more than eight years ago, took just 26 putts and hit all but one green in regulation.

The country star will play at the Wynn Las Vegas resort in an unusual five-year deal that required the hotel group to buy the singer a private jet to ferry him and his family to Nevada from their home in Oklahoma.

The 50-year-old Pernice, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour who won the SAS Championship on Sept. 27 in his Champions Tour debut, birdied his final two holes — Nos. 8 and 9 — at TPC Summerlin to match the best round of his career.

Las Vegas police say the vehicle apparently went onto the sidewalk and crashed into a fire hydrant Thursday morning across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort on the south end of the Strip.

Take the four days leading up to MTV's recent Video Music Awards. She wraps a run-through of her Radio City Music Hall performance at midnight Thursday evening. Friday morning at 10 a.m., she returns to rehearsal mode. A dressing room break is anything but: chats with MTV personnel about show logistics segue into an editing session for her next project -- a DVD culled from a summer stand at the Wynn Las Vegas.

A spokeswoman for Bob Stupak's family says the casino entrepreneur and colorful gambler died Friday at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas. He was 67.

"This deal is going to close," Donahoe told the annual summit of Shop.org, the online arm of the National Retail Federation, in Las Vegas. He added that Skype will be very successful under what he called the "right ownership structure."

Valero had never officially been added to the undercard of Manny Pacquiao's highly anticipated pay-per-view bout against Miguel Cotto, but Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had hoped that Valero would be able to defend his WBC belt against junior lightweight champion Humberto Soto on Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The alternative Puerto Rican hip-hop duo will compete for album of the year against Colombian singer-songwriter Andres Cepeda, Nicaraguan salsa singer Luis Enrique, folksy Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa and Brazilian musician Ivan Lins & The Metropole Orchestra at the 10th annual Latin Grammy Awards on Nov. 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger filed a brief with the state's high court challenging Simpson's appeal of his conviction on 12 charges related to a confrontation with dealers of sport mementos in a Las Vegas casino hotel room.

Mayweather has won all 39 of his career bouts, including 25 by knockout, but the American will be making his first appearance in the ring for almost two years.

A new animated feature film, "9," set in a post-apocalyptic world, will also hit theaters as hotels like Las Vegas' Bellagio and even a county clerk or two offer special "9/9/09" wedding prices.

Las Vegas Review-Journal Publisher Sherman Frederick told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he thought it would be inappropriate to say what he and the senior Nevada senator discussed at the meeting because it was off the record.

Under 10 new deals, the largest owner and operator on the Las Vegas Strip will manage hotels abroad without spending on land or development, part of its overall effort to cut costs and risk. Several of the hotels will carry the names of the company's famous Bellagio and MGM Grand casinos in Las Vegas.

Bombmaker Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 29, of Nicaragua, stared straight ahead as the verdicts were read in Clark County District Court.

The accident happened Saturday morning on State Route 190 in California's Death Valley National Park, about 100 miles west of Las Vegas, according to patrol Capt. Tim Lepper.

Though there's some vulture buying going on in other fallen condo markets such as San Diego, Las Vegas and New York City, Miami is widely viewed as the epicenter.

Christopher Edwards pleaded guilty this week to two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters. He agreed to testify against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, and Amy Busefink, a former regional voter registration director.