The U.S. courthouse in downtown Las Vegas is being renovated to make way for the Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, city officials said. The Las Vegas Review-Journal said elected officials and former U.S.

Las Vegas gaming revenues declined in April compared to a year earlier, analysts said.

A new series of exhibits at the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas is focused on the subject of bodily excretions, a site official says. Tifferney White, director of education and programs at the museum, said in addition to excretions, Grossology will offer visitors insights into the noises

The rate of decline regarding Las Vegas tourism is slowing, offering hope for businesses in the city facing financial struggles, an expert says. Jeremy Aguero, a principal at the Applied Analysis business advisory firm, said while April tourism figures represented a 2.9 percent drop compared with April 2008, the overall rate of tourism decline is slowing, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said Saturday. The rate at which we're declining is slowing, which is encouraging on all fronts, Aguero said.

Three hundred-forty events were canceled in Las Vegas in the past 90 days, a tourist group said, leaving some to wonder how much to blame the president.