A once-significant player in Nevada’s cannabis industry is in the final stages of liquidating more than $12 million worth of assets under the guidance of a state court, offering a potential road map for marijuana businesses that are barred from…

The Covid-19 pandemic has ravaged the planet with 1.7 million deaths, more millions globally have lost their jobs, and countries, states, counties, cities, and towns have seen their economies disemboweled. Nevada, where the biggest private industry…

What environmental impact will Nevada’s cultivators have on Mother Earth? For some people, the prospect of cultivating marijuana plants in Nevada’s growing cannabis industry might spark images of Humboldt County hippies in tie-dyes under the sunny…

Politics, to broadly paraphrase, is not a game of civility and mutual respect. And the winners write history. The losers get blog posts. At least in the Nevada caucus, the losers were rampaging gangs of anti-immigrant racists drowning out the…

The world is round. Left to right, up and down, all round. Over the last year I have traveled to Cuba, Ireland and parts of Mexico. Those are countries that are awfully not like the United States in which I grew up in. In some ways, they are better…

As a result of personal experiences, entrepreneur Kathy Gillespie fully committed to medical cannabis -- she co-owns a cultivation, production and dispensary center -- for the sake of fulfilling the needs of patients in search of an alternative to…

Arrest in Beverly Hills murder has ties to Las Vegas Mob history Fifteen years ago, a writer named Susan Berman was murdered in her Beverly Hills home. Last week, the prime suspect was arrested in the case. Berman’s murder happened just a few miles…

FBI plucks alleged New Jersey mobster from Las Vegas area home By Launce Rake Tales of the Mob in Las Vegas typically are seedy stories of yesteryear. But if the FBI is right, they also are stories of the here and now. An alleged captain in New…

Despite being so safe, the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, two-story house still has a wide-open feel thanks to the expansive windows facing the golf course out back. Despite being so safe, the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath, two-story house…

African Americans have served in law enforcement in many ways, and they’ve been essential in efforts to curb the power of the Mob. During Black History Month, The Mob Museum wants to highlight one of those many African Americans who served in law…

The headlines look like they were ripped from American newspapers of the Prohibition era: “Another Mafia killing season may be brewing,” “Growing gang violence leads to calls for anti-terror tactics,” “Mob kingpin arrested after twin car bombings,”…

Las Vegas doesn’t have a statue of Jimmy Hoffa, but some folks think it should. Hoffa, the one-time president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, helped steer millions of dollars to Las Vegas for investment in casinos and other…

Local, state and even federal governments in Mexico have long been suspected of being controlled by violent drug cartels, but the reign of the cartels may be threatened by widespread horror at the recent murder of dozens of college students. On…

Probably the last person in the world you would want on your bad side would be Frank Sinatra, the famous singer and actor with an equally infamous temper and a host of friends in the Mob, in politics and in entertainment. But that’s exactly what a…

Take lots and lots of guys, put them out in the sticks with little to do and pay them well. Who brings in the entertainment? Out in the oil patch of western North Dakota, it might be organized crime. The FBI announced earlier this month that it will…

It’s like something from a movie. The hushed, serious tones, the pricking of a finger to draw blood, the burning of a card bearing the image of a Catholic saint, the promise to put the gang above all else, including family… Could it be real? A lot of…

The New York Mafia may be a thing of the past in the Las Vegas casino industry, but its associates still end up here now and then. The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week announced the arrest of a reputed Gambino family crime figure in Las…

Al Capone’s Chicago house is for sale. It’s the home at 7244 S. Prairie Avenue where Al “Scarface” Capone lived during his rise to power. The asking price for what is now a divided, two-story, six-bedroom duplex is $225,000. Capone bought the home in…

Over the transom comes news that the federal gubmint is tired of all of these potheads and cancer patients and child epileptics, and is going to cut off the use of Lake Mead water to grow ’em the medicine that apparently works. Word from the feds is…

I’ve always been morbidly interested in mugshots. Apparently I’m not alone: It is a popular feature of some newspaper and electronic-news sites. Channel 5, the Fox affiliate in Las Vegas, posts the mugshots from the city on a monthly basis. In April,…