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13 unusual facts about Laughlin


Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy

Peabody Energy pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada.

Cal Jet Air

On January 8, 2012, Cal Jet Air started flying to Laughlin, Nevada from 6 USA cities.

On December 20, 2011, Cal Jet Air announced that it will start flying direct flights to Laughlin, Nevada for The Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nevada.

Casper–Natrona County International Airport

In addition, occasional charter flights (known as "casino or gamblers flights") to Laughlin or Wendover, Nevada are offered.

Don Laughlin

Donald J. "Don" Laughlin (born May 4, 1931) is an American gambling entrepreneur, hotelier and rancher for whom the town of Laughlin, Nevada, is named.

Golden Valley, Arizona

However, residents of Golden Valley also rely on employment in Bullhead City and Laughlin, linking Golden Valley to those communities as well.

Mohave Power Station

Mohave Power Station (known also as Mohave Generating Station, or MOGS) was a 1,580-megawatt coal-fired power plant located in Laughlin, Nevada.

Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr.

(January 14, 1947 – November 27, 1996) was the county prosecutor of Somerset County, New Jersey who fled to Laughlin, Nevada and took his own life after being charged with embezzlement, tax fraud and abuse of power.

Ramada

The Ramada hotels and restaurants were sold for $540 million to New World Development Company and the gaming business which included the Tropicana Las Vegas, Tropicana Atlantic City, and Ramada Express in Laughlin, Nevada, were spun off to a new company called Aztar Corporation.

Somerset County, New Jersey

He fled to Laughlin, Nevada, near Las Vegas and took his own life when the federal authorities attempted to arrest him.

Sun Country Airlines

The airline initially operated combined charter-scheduled services from Minneapolis to casinos in Laughlin, Nevada and gradually added more charter destinations as finances allowed.

Vidal Junction, California

Though not a destination in its own right, Vidal Junction is a frequently used rest area and "jumping off" point for travelers headed to Colorado River resort towns such as Lake Havasu and Laughlin, Nevada.

Viva Laughlin

Viva Laughlin is a mystery drama musical about businessman Ripley Holden, whose ambition is to run a casino in Laughlin, Nevada.


Arthur Shields

He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home.

Chad Ragland

Most recently, Chad competed in the SCORE International Laughlin Desert Challenge in 2010 and The Best in the Desert Parker 425 with past SCORE Trophy Truck Champion, BJ Baldwin for Baldwin Motorsports.

2010 – 4th Overall 4th in Trophy Truck SCORE Baja 1000 / 3rd Overall 3rd in Class Trophy Truck SCORE Laughlin Desert Challenge Day 1 / 2nd Fastest Qualifier in Trophy Truck SNORE Mint 400

Charles Laughlin

Rubinstein, Robert A., Charles D. Laughlin and John McManus.

Laughlin's choice of the So was influenced by conversations he had with Colin Turnbull, who had worked with nearby peoples.

Craig Laughlin

Laughlin has been the television color analyst for Capitals games since 1990, where he currently is paired with Joe Beninati.

Future of an expanding universe

More recently, the astrophysicists Fred Adams and Gregory Laughlin have divided the past and future history of an expanding universe into five eras.

George Gately

To keep up with the demand, he recruited Bob Laughlin, and later his brother John to help draw the daily strips and Sunday color pages.

Golden Nugget, Inc.

On November 10, 2004 Barrick Gaming Corporation, which owns casino/hotels in downtown Las Vegas including The Plaza, The Vegas Club, The Western, and The Gold Spike, announced that it would acquire the Golden Nugget Laughlin for $31 million plus working capital.

Harry H. Laughlin

The Reichstag of Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in 1933, closely based on Laughlin's model.

At least one contemporary scientist, bacterial geneticist Herbert Spencer Jennings, condemned Laughlin's statistics as invalid because they compared recent immigrants to more settled immigrants.

Homer Laughlin

The Homer Laughlin China Co. moved all operations to the Newell, West Virginia location in 1907.

James Laughlin

An important influence on Laughlin at the time was the Choate teacher and translator Dudley Fitts, who later provided Laughlin with introductions to prominent writers such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.

John Brown, Jr.

John A. Brown, Jr., American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin

Laughlin Air Force Base

Laughlin AFB is served by the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District.

Lawrence Roehm

In 1929, the company was taken over by Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Roehm at that point became employed by Jones & Laughlin as the assistant manager and, starting in 1938, manager of the company's Detroit warehouse operation.

Strange Invaders

The film was intended to be the second installment of the aborted Strange Trilogy with Strange Behavior, another 1950s spoof by Laughlin, but the idea was abandoned after Strange Invaders failed to attract a wider audience.

Sunny Thompson

She has appeared in her award-winning cabaret shows in major casino showrooms in Reno, Lake Tahoe, Laughlin, Tunica and San Diego as well as Las Vegas.

Tyler Bensinger

Bensinger moved from features to TV in the late nineties and has written on numerous shows including The Pretender, Beverly Hills, 90210, Titans, "Going to California", Dragnet, Cold Case, "Justice", "Viva Laughlin", Harper's Island, "Parenthood", "Prime Suspect", "Masters of Sex" and "Nashville".