WHAT has caused people call a visit to Las Vegas a “phony, fancypants ego trip”? Something’s gone wrong in Sin City and this hotel wants to turn it around. FOR the last six years, these jets have been sitting abandoned and incomplete.

Austin “Chumlee” Russell arrives at the 2013 Fighters Only World Mixed Martial Arts Awards at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. The Kats Report Bureau is Starbucks on West Sahara and Decatur, across the street from where Tower Books & Records was once located at the Wow! retail center.

It’s been a year since American billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s casino company was hacked. Now the blame is officially being placed on Iran.

Casting has been announced for the stage production of The Duck Commander Musical, based on the popular, yet controversial family from the A&E series “Duck Dynasty.” The Duck Commander will begin previews April 8 at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with an official opening night set for April 15. The cast will include Broadway actors Mimi Bessette as Miss Kay, Ben Thompson as Willie, Tad Wilson as Phil and Russell Arden Koplin as Missy.

Pearson PLC on Friday appointed a new financial chief, as the U.K. publisher posted a lower full-year profit following a restructuring. The company said it has appointed Coram Williams, chief financial officer of book publisher Penguin Random House-a joint venture in which Pearson has a 47% stake-as its new CFO.

It was anything but a conventional grand entrance for Rascal Flatts on Wednesday as the band kicked off its nearly three-week Las Vegas stay an event unconventional in itself, considering the group is undertaking the first ever country residency to hit The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. As part of the residency, dubbed “Rascal Flatts Vegas Riot!,” the band is slated to play a total of nine shows through March 14, opened each night “The Voice” season 7 winner Craig Wayne Boyd.

Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. and Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. announced that they have formed Saddlehorn Pipeline Company, a 50/50 limited liability company, to construct, own and operate the Saddlehorn pipeline, an approximately 550-mile pipeline that will transport various grades of crude oil from the DJ Basin, and potentially the broader Rocky Mountain area resource plays, to storage facilities in Cushing, OK owned by Magellan and Plains. An extension to Carr, CO is also under consideration for connection to existing crude oil assets owned by Plains in that region.

A Cash 5 ticket sold at a restaurant supply store in the Crescentville section of Northeast Philadelphia won the jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced. The ticket, sold at PJP Marketplace at 537 Adams Ave., correctly matched all five balls, 08-12-13-20-22, to net a prize of $450,000, less 25 percent federal withholding.

Phil Satre, left, International Gaming Technology chairman, and Patti Hart, IGT CEO , during a special Gaming Control Board Hearing on the licensing of the GTech Holdings-International Gaming Technology merger/buyout at the Sawyer Building, 555 East Washington Boulevard on Thursday, Feb 26, 2015. GTECH HoldingsO recently purchased slot machine giant International Game Technology for $6.4 billion.

With the square slated to receive touch-ups this year as part of the Town’s Vision Plan, the town held the workshop to receive feedback from the public on what they would like to see done with the square. The first 30 minutes of the workshop consisted of folks checking out the visuals set up by Stantec, Inc. for feasible ideas that could be done with the square.

To recognize March as National Problem Gambling Awareness Month, the state departments of Drug and Alcohol Programs and Agriculture have teamed with the Pennsylvania Lottery and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to promote resources intended to help individuals with a gambling addiction. To seek confidential help for yourself or a loved one, visit www.paproblemgambling.com or call 1-877-565-2112 or 1-800-848-1880.

Kirk Kerkorian is 97 years old and worth $4 billion. The one time owner of MGM, and wealthy Las Vegas real estate and casino over , is not done, however.

Sheldon Adelson , chief of Las Vegas Sands Corporation and his wife Miriam Adelson attend the ground breaking ceremony of the Cotai Strip in Macau. Washington: The top US intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year, one of two of the first cyber-assaults on the US by nation-states.

Dover Police report an arrest from a collaboration of the Department’s Drug Unit and Safe Streets Unit, as well as Delaware State Police. Miranda Hart, 27, and Jessie Mahoney, 39, were arrested Wednesday in the Dover Downs Casino parking lot in connection with an ongoing drug investigation.

A southwest Michigan woman has made history. Pam Rawson of Grand Junction is the first winner of a million-dollar prize from a Michigan Lottery online game.

Radio Rahim catches up with junior welterweight contender John Molina to discuss the upcoming fight with former three division world champion Adrien Broner, which takes place on March 7th from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.