Las Vegas

Can you imagine a Ferris wheel taller than the HSBC tower in downtown Buffalo?  It's the tallest building in the city, but a Ferris wheel taller than that?  A developer in Vegas has unveiled plans for a version of the popular London Eye Ferris wheel.  The one in Vegas would be 500-feet tall surrounded by retail and entertainment space on the south end of the Strip across from Mandalay Bay.  It's a 175-million dollar project but the financing isn't in place yet. 

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The fans voted Taylor Swift Entertainer of the Year, but Miranda Lambert came away a big winner at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards, winning for Female Vocalist as well as Single, Song and Video of the Year for "The House That Built Me"

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A tough day for Tony Stewart at Vegas.  He dominated the field, leading a race high 163 laps, but a pit road mistake cost him.  He was penalized for leaving his pit with an air hose attached to the car

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The early days of casino gambling featured slot machines you actually had to manually operate with a pull lever.  They came to be known as one-armed bandits.  Today you can sit at a machine all day and just push a button over and over again.  No matter what you call them, slot machines, slots, fruit machines – they’re the most popular form of gambling at casinos and account for 70 percent of casino income. 

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It's a case of easy come...not so easy go.   Vegas is dubbed "Sin City" and I am the last person to judge what a person wants to do with their money, body or life but I have to call out Hubert Blackman, a New York college student  who is suing an escort service for $1.8 million. Hubert wanted female companionship.  He rolled the dice hoping that he wouldn’t crap out and as

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