Tear down your red velvet ropes, Las Vegas. The Stratosphere casino-hotel’s new marketing campaign, which masquerades as a cause, is appealing to a crowd of likely Las Vegas Strip visitors that’s less keen on nightclub bottle service or high-priced fine-dining and more interested in cheap drinks and freebies.

A UNLV professor began the bureaucratic process of dealing with a student who had plagiarized and got mad.
He was asking for a student be held accountable while, in his opinion, the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education was getting away with the same academic sin.

For much of Nevada’s history, the deadliest piece of machinery within its boundaries was the automobile. But now, rising numbers of people taking their own lives with guns has left the Silver State with a new, depressing distinction.

Though Las Vegas isn’t particularly known for keeping history alive, aspects of the African-American community have been preserved throughout the city.

Looking at a graph of human life expectancy over the past four millennia, you get how far medicine has come from diagnosing witchcraft and prescribing bloodletting. But it’s still so inexact that for every year we live, we gain about two months of life. That’s how fast research is improving health care, says Martin Schiller, adding: “It’s maybe the best buy in history for return on investment.”

For someone to whom few paid attention, Claude I. Howard made a major impact on Las Vegas.