The Tropicana Las Vegas hotel — famous as both a Rat Pack haunt and a monument to mobster lore — was imploded at 2:30 a.m. local time to make room for a baseball stadium. “Tonight we bid farewell to ...

LAS VEGAS – The Tropicana had a lengthy history, by Las Vegas standards. The hotel-casino opened in 1957. Nicknamed the "Tiffany of the Strip" for its grandeur, the resort made a name for itself ...

LAS VEGAS – Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The Tropicana ...

The Las Vegas Strip officially said goodbye to an iconic casino. The Tropicana Las Vegas fell early Wednesday morning as part of a grand implosion in Sin City. The Vegas sky was illuminated by a ...

Sin City said goodbye to the Tropicana with a flashy implosion in the early hours of Wednesday, marking the end of its mob era and making way for new construction on the Las Vegas Strip. The ...

The Tropicana implosion happened at around 2:30 a.m. on the Las Vegas strip, with the A’s logo lighting up the sky as both hotel towers came down. Both towers of the 67-year-old hotel came down in ...