Las Vegas News

The largest newspaper in Nevada endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid on Sunday, a week from next Saturday’s caucuses in the state. More >

Fueled by increased international flights, McCarran International Airport handled almost 41.5 million passengers in 2011, an increase of 1.7 million people compared with 2010, airport administrators said Friday.

Traffic on commercial flights by 16 airlines using the airport’s international terminal increased 13.8 percent compared with 2010, the Clark County Department of Aviation said.

President Barack Obama pushed his “all-of-the-above” energy strategy Thursday, highlighting a record to boost domestic energy production that has come under increasing attack from Republicans. More >

It’s official. Porn actors must wear condoms if their movies are being filmed in Los Angeles. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the law on Monday, and it should go into effect in 41 days. More >

A dragon dance will be real, but fireworks will be by virtual display on the Viva Vision canopy when city officials and the downtown Las Vegas casino district mark the start of a five-day Chinese New Year celebration.

Officials say the 6 p.m. Tuesday event will be a first for the Fremont Street Experience. The dragon dance will be performed by the Las Vegas Lohan School of Shaolin.

Las Vegas casinos have made the New England Patriots favorites to win the Super Bowl thanks to their national following, a decade of winning and the playoff mystique of quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick.

In odds posted Sunday night by Cantor Gaming, the Patriots opened as three-point favorites over the New York Giants after New York beat San Francisco 20-17 in overtime in the NFC championship game, Race and Sports Director Mike Colbert said.

Bruno Mars, who found himself in a legal hassle last year after pleading guilty to cocaine possession in L.A, was cleared of the felony charge on Wednesday.

The case was dismissed by Clark County District Court Court Judge Jessie Walsh, after the pop star’s attorneys told a state court judge that the Grammy-winning singer stayed out of trouble and met other conditions of a plea deal reached almost a year ago.

Mars, whose real name is Peter Gene Hernandez, didn’t appear in person for the brief hearing in Las Vegas, New York Daily News reported.

The Las Vegas-area home-building industry likely bottomed out in 2011, when new home sales fell to a 30-year low of 3,894, an analyst says.

“2011 was the most difficult year the home building industry has ever been through,” Dennis Smith, president of Home Builders Research Inc., said in his monthly “Las Vegas Housing Market Letter” issued over the weekend.

A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison Friday for siphoning some $650,000 from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support his gambling habit. More >

Hampton Adams has been one of CES’ most loyal devotees for 15 years. But unlike a good chunk of the 140,000-plus who descend on the world’s largest technology showcase every January, the portfolio manager is less keen on fiddling with cutting-edge technology than picking winners.