Retired basketball star Charles Barkley speaks in July at the Ante Up for Africa charity poker tournament in Las Vegas.
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Retired hoops star owes LV resort
Charles Barkley acknowledged on Thursday he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to Wynn Las Vegas and promised to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired basketball star faced criminal charges.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS:
Health care deal gets challenge
CARSON CITY -- A big union, national, state and local medical groups, a local government official and a U.S. House panel filed documents Thursday in Washington, D.C., in efforts to block the biggest health care deal in Nevada history.
Tumbling home prices seen
A national finance magazine predicts more big price drops in the Las Vegas housing market, and that devaluation could mean more pain for the local economy, experts say.