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The Casino (2004), a Fox reality television series is based on the story of the Golden Nugget's acquisition by Poster Financial Group. [11] In 2010, the casino's pool and shark aquarium were featured throughout an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. [12] The casino was a recurring property in Billion Dollar Buyer on CNBC. [13]
Morton said the casino, which had 800 slot machines, would perform better with new restaurants and additional rooms. Morton purchased the land owned by Las Vegas Discount Golf & Tennis for $8.5 million, and the sale increased the Hard Rock's total property size to more than 18 acres. The $85 million expansion was expected to begin in early 1998.
In February 2015, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) purchased the 26-acre (11 ha) Riviera, at a cost of $191 million. The agency had plans to demolish the resort for a major expansion of its nearby Las Vegas Convention Center. The Riviera closed on May 4, 2015, and demolition was underway a year later.
A Spanish national from Hannover stole 16.000 DM in a bank robbery and was apprehended by a SEK squad in Hemelingen shortly after. When the robber pulled out a gas pistol, two officers fired four warning shots before shooting the man four times in the right side of the foot, wrist and hip, killing him by a double piercing lungshot.
Wynn's first major Las Vegas Strip casino was The Mirage. Wynn's first major casino on the Las Vegas Strip was The Mirage, which opened on November 22, 1989. [20] It was the first time Wynn was involved with the design and construction of a casino, and he financed the $630 million project largely with high-yield bonds issued by Michael Milken.
In June 2000, three men stole $160,000 in cash and casino chips, and were subsequently apprehended. [88] [89] [90] The Bellagio heist was one in a series of casino robberies committed by the men. [91] [92] [93] In December 2010, a helmet-wearing man robbed $1.5 million in chips from a craps table, with some chips worth $25,000 each.
[119] [120] The state of Kansas operates the similarly themed Boot Hill Casino & Resort on the west side of the city – when it opened for business in December 2009, Boot Hill became the first state-owned casino in the United States. [121] [122] Dodge City Civic Center and United Wireless Arena are the city's two main indoor event venues. The ...
Death of Osama bin Laden: . President of the United States Barack Obama announces in a special TV broadcast that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant Islamist group Al-Qaeda and the most-wanted fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was killed on May 2 (Pakistan Standard Time) during an American military operation in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, Pakistan and that ...