Fire strikes Las Vegas hotel-casino
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Fire forced guests and staff to evacuate the 3,000-room Monte Carlo Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Friday, quickly engulfing parts of the upper floors, facade and roof before being brought under control.
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Casino employees will be able to hold caucuses at work  after a federal judge ruled the Democratic Party can set up "at-large" precincts for the Nevada contest on the Las Vegas strip Saturday. The state teachers union challenged the plan, saying it would give employees on the strip an unfair advantage. The culinary workers union -- which supports Sen. Barack Obama -- fired back, saying the teachers wanted to give the edge to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
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A fire at a hotel in the southern Chilean town of Punta Arenas kills 10 foreign tourists, officials say.
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A strike by some 10,000 casino workers at seven of the 12 properties in Atlantic City, NJ, was entering its third day Sunday. The unions walked out Friday, a day after the local made a deal with three Trump casinos.
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A man dies and six others are missing in a fire at a seafront hotel on Blackpool's central promenade.
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Smoke billowing from the LaSalle Bank&#39;s headquarters in Chicago&#39;s Loop choked the Monday night sky as a fire destroyed two floors and badly injured at least 25 people.
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Front-office executives served drinks, lawyers flipped hamburgers and accountants made beds Friday after casino-hotel workers went on strike, forcing casinos to shuffle their decks and curtail service to gamblers.
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Fire crews were sent to the seafront hotel after fire broke out in a food preparation area.
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A fire broke out on the top floors of  a 3,000-room Las Vegas hotel and Casino on Friday, forcing the  evacuation of guests and staff and quickly engulfing parts of  the building's facade and roof.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.
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An explosion occurred at the Hilton hotel in Taba, on the Egypt-Israel border, causing numerous casualties. The blast at around 10 PM apparently originated in the hotel lobby, causing the ceiling of the lobby to collaspse.
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A fire swept through a crowded Buenos Aires nightclub, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 200, police said Friday.
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A blaze in a crowded nightclub in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires killed at least 169 people and injured 375 late on Thursday night.
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A fire broke out at a suburban Atlanta motel, killing five people and injuring five others Thursday, a fire department spokesman said.
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Up to 60 firefighters have tackled a major blaze on the set of the forthcoming James Bond movie &quot;Casino Royale&quot; at Pinewood Studios, west of London, emergency services said.
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A palm tree at the front entrance to the Sheraton was on fire. A resident of the hotel said one rocket had hit a. first-floor room and a second exploded moments later.
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A number of people are reported injured as a large fire breaks out at a fireworks factory in Sussex.