Valentine's Day is for a day of love and kisses and chocolate and roses. Except on Feb. 14, 1929, in Chicago, which featured tommy gun bursts, shotgun blasts, pistol shots and headlines of the ...

LAS VEGAS – The Riviera Hotel and Casino – the Las Vegas Strip’s first high-rise that was as famous for its ties to organized crime as its Hollywood personification of Sin City’s mobster past – exited ...

Las Vegas is being flooded with lore about organized crime after a second set of human remains emerged within a week from the depths of a drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir just a 30-minute ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was ...

The mob boss of the Las Vegas syndicate who built the city into the gambling capital of the U.S. grew up in North Dakota. Davie Berman learned how to be tough and enterprising at his father's farm ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A 55-year-old mystery about a Canadian woman who seemingly fell off the face of the Earth was partially solved earlier this month with the announcement from police in Las Vegas that ...

The Mob Museum is set to debut a new on-site exhibition examining how Hollywood has portrayed Las Vegas on the silver screen.