AOL News Team - Steve Friess

Steve Friess

Contributor

Steve has written for The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Wired and many other publications.

Latest Post New Year's Partiers, Preachers Clash in 'Sin City'

View All Posts

Contact

Vegas Considers Selling Booze at the Baggage Claim

posted: 3 days 6 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (March 15) -- Cities and states across America are adding or expanding casino gambling to raise revenues in these tough times, but that's one well Las Vegas can't really drill any deeper. B ...

Full Story »

Liberace's Luxury Villa Is in Foreclosure

posted: 13 days 3 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (March 5) -- Liberace once epitomized a luxurious, indulgent era of Las Vegas with outlandish bling and over-the-top showmanship, but the lavish house where the late pianist spent his wanin ...

Full Story »

A Chance for Closure for One WWII Widow

posted: 13 days 8 hours ago

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (March 5) -- For more than 66 years, Ruth Garmong has thought daily of her beloved Bill, the high school sweetheart she wed just before he left for World War II and died in a plane cr ...

Full Story »

Trying to Get Foxx's Estate Out of the Redd

posted: 11 days 10 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (March 7) -- It could easily have been the plot for a "Sanford and Son" episode: a bizarre money-making scheme cooked up by a well-meaning but possibly misguided man that seems destined to ...

Full Story »

Obama Tries to Heal Rift With 3 Little Words

posted: 27 days 5 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 19) -- Trying to redeem himself and bolster Democratic Sen. Harry Reid in a city that feels derided by the president and devastated by the recession, President Obama opened a speech t ...

Full Story »

Vegas Happy to Celebrate Chinese New Year

posted: 30 days 11 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 16) -- For the fifth year in a row, Diana Chang and her five adult children stood in the casino of Caesars Palace cheering and snapping photos as three giant dragons shimmied past the ...

Full Story »

Vegas Bookies Amp Up Super Bowl Action

posted: 40 days 8 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 6) -- The most influential men in American sports this weekend may not be named Manning or Brees, don't have shows on ESPN and will be nowhere near Miami. Yet, these guys hold near di ...

Full Story »

Obama Backs Off Las Vegas Spending Comment

posted: 44 days ago

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 2) -- President Barack Obama, attacked by Nevada leaders after referencing Las Vegas for the second time in a year as an inappropriate place to spend money, tried late today to soften ...

Full Story »

Reid's Black History Month Column Raises Questions

posted: 44 days 12 hours ago

LAS VEGAS (Feb. 2) -- Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who last month apologized for privately praising President Barack Obama's lack of a "Negro dialect," posted a Black History Month essay on his Web site M ...

Full Story »

Admirers Can't Get Enough of Things Named Reagan

posted: 45 days 12 hours ago

(Feb. 1) -- They've already named an airport, an aircraft carrier, a courthouse, a medical center, at least two post offices, several schools and more than two dozen roads for him. A McDonald's in Al ...

Full Story »

123»Last