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By the time his Greyhound bus hissed to a stop on Richards Boulevard in Sacramento on the morning of Feb. 12, James Flavy Coy Brown was in a mild panic. It was 6:30 a.m., 15 hours and 11 stops after a taxi had scooped him up in front of Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, where he had spent the previous 72 hours, and deposited him at a bus station.

The suspect in last week's triple slaying on the Las Vegas Strip has been arrested in Los Angeles, the Clark County District Attorney's Office said on Thursday.

Three people were killed and at least three others injured in a gunfight and subsequent car crash along the Las Vegas strip in Nevada early Thursday, police said.

A not guilty plea has been entered on behalf of a 22-year-old man jailed in the brutal sex attacks and hammer slayings of a Las Vegas mother and her daughter. Bryan Devonte Clay Jr. was not asked to enter his own plea.

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.

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.

Tensions between President Obama and Nevada elected officials over the president's anti-Sin City remarks escalated Thursday when Las Vegas's mayor refused an invitation to meet with Obama when he arrives in town, FoxNews.com has confirmed.

$669.66: My vacation budget. How far will it travel? With any luck, maybe more than 2,000 miles. The Washington Post had challenged three travel writers to divide $2,009 and come up with a trip in the frugal new year. The two other writers went to Orlando, Fla., and the spa town of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.