By MARY MANNING, Las Vegas Sun

Former Las Vegas casino executive and mob-connected sports handicapper Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal has died at his Florida home at age 79.Rosenthal had been living in Miami Beach and died of a heart attack Monday. No funeral services have been scheduled.A sports gambling pioneer, Rosenthal at one time ran the Stardust, Fremont and Hacienda hotel-casinos secretly.

LAS VEGAS -- As drought keeps lowering Lake Mead, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas scientist wondered how Las Vegas could find other sources of drinking water. His ideas led him out to sea.

LAS VEGAS -- The campaign to notify 40,000 patients of a Las Vegas endoscopy and colonoscopy clinic that they might have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV is believed to be unprecedented in U.S. history, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.