Coroner Rules Gans' Death Accidental

(NEWSER) - Master impressionist Danny Gans died this morning at age 52 at his Nevada home, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Though little known outside of Vegas, the musical chameleon was a Sin City superstar, performing before routinely sold-out crowds and appearing on the largest freestanding marquee in the world. “The loss of Danny…is at this moment impossible to comprehend,” said Steve Wynn, whose Encore hotel housed Gans’ theater. More»

Cops say he swallowed memory card after passenger fell to her death

(NEWSER) - Police probing a tragic hang-gliding death in Canada say the pilot involved swallowed key evidence after his passenger's death. William Orders, owner-operator of a hang-gliding company in Vancouver, was on a tandem flight with a 27-year-old woman when she became detached and fell a thousand feet to her death. Her boyfriend saw her tumble out of her harness soon after take-off, clinging to the instructor's feet before falling. Police say Orders swallowed a memory card with digital video of the flight and X-rays have revealed that it is still inside him, the Globe and Mail reports. More»

200 people were celebrating Cardinals' 7-3 win over Milwaukee

(NEWSER) - One person died and 100 were injured, five seriously, when a sudden storm destroyed a beer tent where 200 people had gathered after a St. Louis Cardinals game yesterday, reports the Post-Dispatch . Sudden winds of about 50 miles per hour ripped through the tent behind Kilroy's Sports Bar for just a few seconds, but that was enough to shatter the aluminum poles that held it up and send the tent into the air. "I thought a train fell off the track," said the bar owner. "We all ducked for cover. Everything was going sideways. I had metal chairs ripping across the beer garden." More»

Dean Heller, Shelley Berkley fight for the government's right to party

(NEWSER) - No one is actually talking about outlawing government travel to Las Vegas or Reno in the wake of the GSA scandal, but a pair of Nevada lawmakers want to ban such a banning, just in case. Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Shelley Berkley are putting forward bills in their respective chambers making it illegal to ban travel to any particular US city, USA Today reports. More»

Owner unconcerned after woman drops in ridiculously unhealthy restaurant

(NEWSER) - You can't say they didn't warn her: A woman collapsed at the Heart Attack Grill this weekend, just two months after the last time someone had a heart attack at the cheerfully morbid Las Vegas eatery. The woman was whisked away by paramedics and her condition is currently unknown. Owner Jon Basso tells the LA Times that he hopes she's OK, but that she knew what she was getting into. "We attract an avant-garde clientele," he says: "Thrill seekers, risk takers." More»