Fat Herbie’s rise and fall
Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…
Second of two parts. Part One looks at Herbie Blitzstein’s murder twenty years ago. Herbert “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein was born…
First of two parts. Part Two looks at Blitzstein’s criminal activity in Las Vegas. By the mid-1990s, death had claimed…
This is the third of three blogs on the death of Fidel Castro. Part one looks at the harsh blow Castro dealt…
When the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes arrived in Las Vegas 50 years ago this month and took up residence on…
“Well, I didn’t inherit any money, Senator. … If you hadn’t have drunk it, I wouldn’t have bootlegged it.” Many…
By the late summer of 1946, Guy McAfee was the best-known big shot in Las Vegas. McAfee, 58, had spent…
When hotel developer Jay Sarno unwrapped his innovative Caesars Palace hotel-casino for a prolonged grand opening party on August 5,…
Third in a series of profiles for Women’s History Month. On March 24, 1966, passersby walking on a footpath beside…
Written: February 3, 2016 It was the first week of January 1973. Frank Matthews and his young girlfriend had just…
Who killed Rick Manzie, husband of popular singer and actress Barbara McNair, in the couple’s Las Vegas home 39 years…