New Year’s Military-style: A Look Back
by Cathy ScottReprinted from Women In Crime Ink Just before New Year’s Eve 2003, something extraordinary happened in three popular partying spots: The arm of the law came down and ordered that...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors: The Truth About Las Vegas
by Cathy Scott Reprinted from Women in Crime Ink Watching Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman’s indignation over recent advice by President Barack Obama to a New Hampshire audience to not waste cash in Las...
View ArticleNew Book by O’Brien: My Week at the Blue Angel
By Cathy Scott Here’s a news release from Huntington Press about my friend Matt’s latest book. For Immediate Release Huntington Press Announces Release Date for My Week at the Blue Angel: And Other...
View ArticleOne Fatal Night in Las Vegas
by Cathy Scott Reprinted from Women in Crime Ink This week marks the fourteenth anniversary of the day Tupac Shakur was shot. And with the anniversary comes ESPN’s new documentary: One Night in Vegas:...
View ArticleWhat Happens in Sin City Doesn’t Stay Here
Here’s a twist — and exactly the type of news the public relations machine behind Vegas doesn’t like to see. Still, it’s tough to keep this one off the front pages, after a New York college student,...
View ArticleSambalatte: Where Everybody Knows Your Name
By Cathy Scott There’s a new place in town, where everybody knows your name. It’s called Sambalatte. Step inside this caffee lounge and espresso bar, and you’re welcomed by your first name. The...
View ArticleIs Vegas Mayoral Candidate Carolyn Goodman More Than a ‘Mouthpiece’ for...
By Cathy Scott Word on the street is that the campaign headquarters of Carolyn Goodman on Tuesday’s election night in Sin City was peppered with mobsters. Old-time mobsters. “At least 10 were there,”...
View ArticleMob Museum: A History Las Vegas Can’t Refuse
The Mob Museum: A History Las Vegas Can’t Refuse Filed under: books, Cathy Scott, Las Vegas, law, Mafia, Mob, Uncategorized Tagged: American history, Crime, Entertainment, organized crime
View ArticleEscaped Chimp Shot Dead: Should Las Vegas Valley Officials Allow Exotic ‘Pets’?
Chimpanzee (Photo credit: Dhammika Heenpella / Images of Sri Lanka) Two chimpanzees – 13 and 14 years old — kept in a back yard in record-high temperatures, escaped their enclosure Thursday into their...
View ArticleTroubled Early Voting: It Oughta Be A Crime
(Wikipedia Commons) I cast my vote in Clark County on the second day of early voting. But it nearly didn’t happen. It went down like this: I queued up outside a portable building, waiting for my turn...
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