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Remember the furor over $16 muffins? That's nothing compared with the $100-plus per-person reception that featured 400 pieces of $4.75 "Petit Beef Wellington," 400 "Mini Monte Cristo Sandwiches" at $5 each and 1,000 sushi rolls for $7 apiece, as well as other "excessive and wasteful" spending at a General Services Administration conference in the Las Vegas area in 2010.

Passengers said the captain of a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas could be heard shouting about Al Qaeda and bombs, and the plan made an emergency landing in Texas.

A 23-year-old beauty queen from Kenosha, Wis., won the Miss America pageant Saturday in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown. Laura Kaeppeler also had to answer a question about whether beauty queens should declare their politics.

SolarFocus will introduce SolarKindle, billed as “the world’s first solar powered e-reader cover” at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which gets underway on Monday. The cover will have a built-in solar panel with a dual-charging (USB and solar) reserve battery. The company said that there is “a guarentee of three-months of unplugged Kindle use” under normal sunlight environment.

Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a perfect 42-0 in the ring and has dodged significant jail time several times in domestic violence cases in Las Vegas and Michigan. But his courtroom streak came to an end Wednesday when a Las Vegas judge sentenced him to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to a reduced battery domestic violence charge and no contest to two harassment charges.

Delwin and Tamara Chapman were in Las Vegas to renew their wedding vows after 25 years of marriage.

Manny Pacquiao, who will fight Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday, affects increases in everything from hotel rates to the price of bottle service at nightclubs.

By now the routine is a familiar one for Manny Pacquiao. Twice a year he leaves his native Philippines – where he doubles as a congressman – to train with Freddie Roach in a Los Angeles gym. He goes on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to croon a tune or two, then heads to this gambling city.

David Stern was meeting with NBA owners in Dallas when he got word of how things went at a gathering of NBA players in Las Vegas....

And this season's winner of "America's Got Talent" is ... Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. Just as most of us had predicted, the corn-rowed crooner with a knack for Sinatra carried the day, nabbing not only bragging rights -- though he doesn't really seem the type to brag -- but also, as we were frequently reminded, $1 million and a stint headlining a show in Las Vegas.