While Hollywood mobster movies mostly feature men as main characters, with their female companions often little more than ...

During The Great Depression, the public was fascinated by criminals, gangsters, and mobsters. John Dillinger was at the top ...

A couple decades after the gangster Bugsy Siegel built the first casino hotel in Las Vegas, a far folksier fellow named Don Laughlin built his own casino around 100 miles south, on the Nevada side of ...

Reannon Muth Back in the day, not even Vegas' neon lights could distract ... learn about such notorious gangsters as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti and the dedicated G-men and FBI agents ...

Las Vegas has an oddball history: a railroad town that became a gaming mecca thanks to a famous mobster (Bugsy Siegel), the ...

from noon to 8 p.m. Hofbräuhaus Las Vegas, 4510 Paradise Road, is featuring à la carte dishes — butternut squash cream soup ($9.50), fried brie with winter salad ($19.50), roast turkey with ...

Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Honorius III. 1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds the ...

Then, in 1939, he returned to Los Angeles and helped establish the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas while working under Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel. After Bugsy Siegel’s assassination in 1947, Cohen became the ...

Las Vegas is the city of no sleep ... and fountain drinks. Even Bugsy Siegel would approve of El Cortez’s Siegel’s 1941 with its clubby feel and American fare, open 24 hours on Fridays ...