Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel sat down to dinner at a Santa Monica seafood restaurant on the night of June 20, 1947. Jack's at the Beach, located at the northern end of the Ocean Park pier, an amusement ...

Casinos have always been a symbol of luxury, risk, and high-stakes drama, making them the perfect backdrop for some of the ...

Albuquerque-born author Kyle Paoletta takes readers on a virtual road trip around his native region, transporting us across hundreds of years and thousands of miles in his new book “American ...

The historic El Cortez Hotel and Casino, a fixture in downtown Las Vegas since 1941, is nearing the completion of a $20 million renovation aimed at attracting a ...

Albuquerque-born author Kyle Paoletta takes readers on a virtual road trip around his native region, transporting us across hundreds of years and thousands of miles in his new book “American Oasis: ...

Visitors to the museum will learn about such notorious gangsters as Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and John Gotti and the dedicated G-men and FBI agents like J. Edgar Hoover, Eliot Ness and Harry ...

The promise of overnight wealth later drew Anglo boosters to the region, especially Las Vegas, where East Coast crime boss Bugsy Siegel set up legal casinos and put the city on the road to becoming a ...

Frank Costello and Vito Genovese were partners in crime, involved in robberies, extortion, narcotics, and more, alongside their associates, including Tommy "Three-Finger Brown" Lucchese, Meyer Lansky, ...