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Separating fact from fiction: How much do you really know about the mob in Las Vegas?

Lake Mead is losing water, but as it does, people in Las Vegas and around the world are gaining something entirely different: a glimpse into the past. Since spring, several sets of human remains have been discovered in the receding lake. Many are thought to be drowning victims. But in early May, a man's body was found inside of a barrel and it's…
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Separating fact from fiction: How much do you really know about the mob in Las Vegas?
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Las Vegas’ Historic El Cortez Hotel & Casino Renovates Original 47 Rooms

Opened in 1941, the iconic El Cortez Hotel & Casino has maintained its vintage charm with original hotel rooms located above the casino floor, only accessible by a wooden staircase. Today, the Downtown Las Vegas landmark-and the only casino listed on the National Register of Historic Places -announces the completed renovation of these 47 rooms,…
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Las Vegas’ Historic El Cortez Hotel & Casino Renovates Original 47 Rooms
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Downtown Vegas' El Cortez casino finishes $3M upgrade of vintage 'Original 47' rooms

Downtown Las Vegas hotel-casino El Cortez announced Tuesday the completion of a $3 million renovation that consisted of the upgrade of 47 original vintage rooms -dubbed the "Original 47" - built in 1941, the year when the National Register of Historic Places-listed venue opened its doors. Originally used as boarding and meeting spaces when the…
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Downtown Vegas' El Cortez casino finishes $3M upgrade of vintage 'Original 47' rooms
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Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS - It's the mob guy who went missing after skimming from the Stardust casino. No, it's the lake resort manager hunted down by the Chicago Outfit. Could it be the work of a biker gang muscling in on Mafia turf? Or maybe someone just fell off a boat after one too many. Ever since the bodies started turning up this month in Lake Mead - the…
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Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas
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Happy 75th Birthday to the Flamingo Las Vegas

I have a very specific fond memory of the Flamingo Las Vegas. It was probably 2005, the first year I covered the World Series of Poker live at the Rio. My brother came to visit and, having seen all he was going to see at the WSOP, decided to enter a small daily poker tournament at the Flamingo. He wasn't particularly good at poker - just dabbled a…
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The Flamingo, Las Vegas’s First Mob-Built Casino, Turns 75

Las Vegas Strip icon the Flamingo is celebrating 75 years in business, a significant milestone in the town's first mob-built resort's colorful history. [Image: Shutterstock.com] The oldest still-operating resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Sin City's first mob-built casino, the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, has turned 75. Emmy Award-winning…
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The Flamingo, Las Vegas’s First Mob-Built Casino, Turns 75
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Looking back on 75 years at Las Vegas’ iconic Flamingo hotel and casino

As anyone with basic knowledge of Las Vegas history knows, celebrity mobster Bugsy Siegel was the owner of the Flamingo hotel and casino when it opened its doors on December 26, 1946. It was his passion project in the desert and would bring sleek art deco glamour to the proto-Strip, which at that time consisted of a couple of Old West-themed…
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Looking back on 75 years at Las Vegas’ iconic Flamingo hotel and casino
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Flamingo Las Vegas joins El Cortez marking milestone dates

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two iconic Las Vegas hotel-casinos are marking milestone dates - one on the Strip and one downtown. The Flamingo Las Vegas has begun celebrating its 75th birthday ahead of the Dec. 26 anniversary of the date in 1946 when Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opened the first resort-style property on a highway that became Las Vegas Boulevard and…
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Downtown Las Vegas icon El Cortez Hotel & Casino to commemorate 80 years this November

LAS VEGAS, NV - This November, the historic El Cortez Hotel & Casino celebrates its monumental 80th Anniversary as the longest continuously running hotel & casino in the ever-changing landscape of downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. As the only casino listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this Vegas institution has stood the test of time…
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Downtown Vegas' El Cortez casino celebrates 80° anniversary with a $25M renovation

as Vegas-based casino El Cortez will celebrate its 80° anniversary with a $25 million renovation and a fireworks show which will take place on November 6, featuring a speech by Mayor Carolyn Goodman. The property will be throwing the festivities in celebration of 80 years of running the hotel and casino downtown, thus becoming the only casino…
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El Cortez in downtown Las Vegas to celebrate 80th anniversary

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- An iconic casino in downtown Las Vegas will celebrate its 80 years in November. According to a news release, the El Cortez will celebrate its 80th birthday with a $25 million renovation and a fireworks show on Nov. 6. The celebrate its 80th anniversary as the longest continuously running hotel and casino in downtown. The release…
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