BREAKING NEWS
Six overnight news items from internet blogs are shaking Vegas this morning:
#1: Actress Lindsay Lohan’s rehab-stay may well cost her all the sponsors for her 21st birthday party originally set for July 2 at PURE nightclub in Caesars Palace- including the hotel and nightclub itself, according to Gatecrasher. 
There’s even gossip here in Vegas that she’ll have to payback part of PURE’s deposit against the reported $250,000 she was to be paid for 3-days of partying here with dinners at Social Houjse, poolside parties at the Venus topless hideout and the big nightclub bash itself. Gatecrasher claims that Lindsay faces potential lossses of $100’s of $1,000’s with probable losses from PURE, Social House and Caesars Palace because of our strictly enforced drinking rules.
#2: Paris Hilton’s best friend, Kim Kardashian, 
who used to be linked to MTV’s Nick Cannon, apparently started a hot and heavy romance here in Vegas at the weekend with Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star Reggie Bush. They met at TAO and have been inseparable ever since according to the spies of TMZ. They were caught on tape kissing, cuddling and making out without a care inm the world!
#3: TV’s Tracy Morgan of the 30-Rock show is the center of another drinking controversy. In 2005 he was arrested for DUI in California and again this past February. He was fined $1000 , had his license lifted for 6-months and was required to wear an ankle bracelet that actually monitors his skin for alcohol levels. The New York Post Page Six gossip column is reporting that eyewitnesses stated that while partying hearty at Rumjungle in Mandalay Bay last weekend he ripped his shirt off and drank directly from a bottle of vodka after downing shots of the alcohol. Morgan’s rep. claims he was only drinking Red Bull but if the actor’s ankle bracelet tests positive he would be required to wear the device for another three months and possibly find himself in jail for 30-days.
Hollywood is reeling from a never-ending series of revelations about the alcohol-fueled out of control bar and nightclub party habits of the stars who have become regular players in Vegas clubs too. The escalating incidents have seen several of them arrested and sent to jail and rehab clinics. Newly out of rehab Britney Spears reportedly became violently ill over the weekend in yet another drinking incident at the Mondrian hotel and was reportedly ” completely out of it” and had to be carried home by bodyguards. Paris Hilton’s upcoming jail stay has also threatened her guest-of-honor attendance at the planned June 25 grand gala premiere of the new season of Beacher’s Madhouse shows at the Hard Rock.
#4: Wall Street investment bankers confirmed this morning that Vegas is to get yet another new hotel. The Australian company, PBL, is to open Crown Las Vegas in a joint venture t odevelop, build, and operate a Crown hotel and casino here. PBL has partnered with IDM Properties, a property developer, and York Capital Management, a private investment fund. While development and design plans have not been finalized, nor any site or location details revealed, Crown Las Vegas will apparently target the top end of the increasingly crowded luxury market.
#5: Wall Street sources also advised this morning that Microsoft has created the first commercially available surface computer. One of the target markets for this device is the hotel/casino industry, but the computer will also have applications in restaurants and retail. Harrah’s Las Vegas properties are quietly testing the devices for use as a virtual concierge service and our giant IGT slot-machine manufacturer has reached a distribution and development agreement with Microsoft for Surface for the device fitting into the company’s server-based gaming platform.
#6: Las Vegas Sands, the parent company of both the Venetian and the upcoming Palazzo has won a $5 billion credit facility—consisting of a $3 billion term loan, a $600 million delayed draw I term loan, a $400 million delayed draw II term loan facility, and a $1 billion revolver.