Las Vegas's death spiral: Homelessness has exploded, there's a drugs plague and hundreds have burned to death passed out in the sun. Special report by FRED KELLY
'One hundred and sixty dollars down,' she tells me, puffing on a cigarette and heading gingerly out into the 40-degree morning heat. On Las Vegas Boulevard, Bettie points towards the Mirage Hotel opposite, the strip's first and most iconic mega-resort, which closed earlier this week after 35 years in operation.
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