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Cops: Students Killed Rare Bird at Vegas Casino

Pair allegedly laughed about beheading bird

(Newser) - What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas if you do something as stupid as decapitating an exotic bird—inside a casino. Two University of California, Berkeley, law students have been arrested for allegedly killing the helmeted guinea fowl inside the Flamingo Hotel and Casino’s wildlife habitat, which...

Cabbie Returns Passenger's $222K

Vegas gambler pays him $2,000

(Newser) - Say you find $222,000 in your cab. What do you do? You get it back to the passenger who left it, right? That's what cabbie Adam Woldemariam did when he found a laptop case stuffed with the cash in his taxi last month. Woldemariam, 42, described as a...

Green Day Singer in Rehab After Meltdown

Billie Joe Armstrong checks himself in for substance abuse

(Newser) - Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is checking himself into rehab after a rant mentioning Justin Bieber last week in Vegas. Armstrong ended the band's performance at the iHeart Radio Festival after an obscenity-laced tirade, smashing his guitar, then storming off stage . "I'm not effing Justin Bieber,...

Car Plows Into Vegas Bus Stop, Kills 4

Eight others injured; driver suspected to have been drunk

(Newser) - Police suspect a driver was drunk and speeding when his vehicle went airborne and hit a Las Vegas bus stop, killing four people and injuring eight others. Las Vegas police say several people were in the vehicle and had to be extricated following the crash a little before 6:30...

Prince Harry Shows His ... Face

And tells boy, 6, not to mention Vegas at charity gig

(Newser) - Prince Harry was finally allowed out of the royal doghouse to attend a charity event after his infamous birthday suit show in a Las Vegas hotel suite. His royal handlers (ie, grandma) yanked him off an earlier planned appearance at the Paralympics in London last week. But he was a...

Harry's Vegas Girl: He Was Naked When I Got There

Carrie Reichert spills more than you wanted to know about Harry and air guitar

(Newser) - What happened in Vegas continues to bludgeon the rest of the world over the head: Seems one of the young ladies who partied with Prince Harry during his now-regrettable boozy weekend in Sin City has given an interview, with British-born Carrie Reichert telling the Daily Mirror that she was among...

Harry Upset With Royal Self
 Harry Upset With Royal Self 
Aug 27, 2012 12:53 AM CDT

Harry Upset With Royal Self

He's still reeling from Vegas party

(Newser) - The chastisement continues for poor Prince Harry after he was caught buck naked on film. He even "let himself down" when he took off his clothes while playing strip billiards in his Las Vegas suite last week, say friends. "He's very disappointed with the fact that he...

Prince Harry Faces Queen's Wrath After Nude Hijinks

He's likely to get military dressing down as well

(Newser) - Let the royal fallout begin. Prince Harry has flown back to London to an angry queen after the frisky party boy stripped in his Las Vegas hotel suite, and photos ended up in the US press, reports the New York Daily News . The royal family was scrambling yesterday to do...

Royals Confirm: Those Are Nude Photos of Harry

Partying prince got frisky in Vegas VIP suite

(Newser) - TMZ has posted photos of a handsome ginger fellow stripped down to his altogether in Las Vegas—and now Clarence House confirms the nude in question is indeed Prince Harry. The clothes apparently came off during a very important mission: a game of strip billiards with a crew of...

Ryan Doesn't Meet Mitt's Requirement for President

Romney echoed argument for 3 years of business experience

(Newser) - Mitt Romney sets a high bar for anyone seeking the presidency—too high, it seems, for his own running mate to match. At a May speech in Las Vegas, Romney avidly recounted the story of a local businessman who wanted a new Constitutional requirement for presidential candidates: that they have...

Runaway Chimp Escapes Again
 Runaway Chimp Escapes Again 
Aug 13, 2012 12:04 AM CDT

Runaway Chimp Escapes Again

CJ is recaptured in Vegas, moved to a zoo

(Newser) - A runaway chimpanzee whose escapades with her cage mate got her partner killed in Las Vegas last month has slipped out of her enclosure again. A neighbor spotted CJ running free from her northwest Vegas home for the second time in just weeks—but this time cops were more prepared....

Hanging Effigies Rattle Vegas
 Hanging Effigies Rattle Vegas 
Aug 9, 2012 5:00 AM CDT

Hanging Effigies Rattle Vegas

Some drivers feared they were real people

(Newser) - Two surprise billboards featuring hanging effigies nearly knocked Las Vegans off their game yesterday. Mannequins with nooses around their necks hung from both billboards, each on a major highway; they appeared to be some kind of jobless protest. "Dying for a job," said a hand-painted message on one...

Feds Probe Sands Casinos for Money Laundering

But Sands owner Sheldon Adelson isn't under investigation

(Newser) - Federal authorities are investigating the Sands casinos for allegedly helping shady figures launder millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. A businessman in Mexico and a former California executive—high rollers who have run afoul of the law—made the money transfers years ago. Now the US attorney's...

Loose Chimp Shot in Vegas
 Loose Chimp Shot in Vegas 
Jul 13, 2012 1:32 AM CDT

Loose Chimp Shot in Vegas

Residents panic after pair of pet chimps escape

(Newser) - A pair of chimps had an unlucky escape in Las Vegas yesterday. Police responding to calls from panicked residents shot a male chimp dead and tranquilized a female, CNN reports. The chimps, which had escaped from a home, had been banging on cars and damaging vehicles, police say. The male...

'Hell' on JetBlue Flight Over Vegas

Hydraulic system fails on Airbus A320, plane circles for hours

(Newser) - Be glad that you were not on Sunday's JetBlue flight from Las Vegas to New York, which one passenger describes as "four hours of hell." The plane's hydraulic system failed, causing it to careen from side to side and go into dizzying turns, and the passengers'...

Lawmakers Push Ban on Ban on Las Vegas Travel

Dean Heller, Shelley Berkley fight for the government's right to party

(Newser) - No one is actually talking about outlawing government travel to Las Vegas or Reno in the wake of the GSA scandal, but a pair of Nevada lawmakers want to ban such a banning, just in case. Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Shelley Berkley are putting forward bills in their respective...

Heart Attack Grill Strikes Again

Owner unconcerned after woman drops in ridiculously unhealthy restaurant

(Newser) - You can't say they didn't warn her: A woman collapsed at the Heart Attack Grill this weekend, just two months after the last time someone had a heart attack at the cheerfully morbid Las Vegas eatery. The woman was whisked away by paramedics and her condition is currently...

GSA Nixes New Vegas Conference

Sin City conference canceled in wake of uproar

(Newser) - In the wake of all the uproar over its $822,000 conference in Las Vegas in 2010, the General Services Administration has decided it may not be a good idea to return to Sin City this year, the Washington Post reports. Thus, the GSA axed "GreenUP 2012 Training Conference...

GSA Vegas Fallout Claims 8th Victim

David Foley quipped on video about lavish conference

(Newser) - The General Services Administration deputy commissioner who joked on video about the extravagant spending at the GSA's 2010 Las Vegas conference has been placed on leave, reports the Washington Post . David Foley is under disciplinary review for his conduct at the conference, making him the eighth GSA official so...

Federal Heads Roll Over $822K Vegas Party

Waste included $6K in coins honoring GSA's work on stimulus

(Newser) - What happens in Vegas ... has come back to bite a federal agency that decided to throw itself an $822,000 conference that was every bit as posh as it was ill-advised. Martha Johnson, the administrator of the General Services Administration, has quit over the brouhaha, acknowledging in her resignation letter...

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