Paris Hilton was busted for felony cocaine possession last night in Vegas. Her defense: The purse with the coke wasn't hers. She used the same excuse when she was busted for pot in South Africa. It worked, that time.

A Las Vegas woman who went missing in April, Billie Jean James, was found dead in her home this week by her husband, who spotted her feet sticking out from a pile of junk. Welcome to Extreme Hoarders: Death Trap.

Arrested for cocaine possession while hotboxing in an Escalade in Las Vegas, Paris Hilton was in jail from 11:30PM last night until the wee hours of Saturday morning. Why did she tweet about watching TV all night? Update: New theories.

AOL's money website WalletPop composed a list of the worst American cities to live in based on the climate, unemployment and foreclosure figures, crime stats, etc. Naturally, Detroit and LA both made the cut. But there were some surprises, too.

The annual Netroots Nation conference for liberal bloggers starts today, in Las Vegas. (Prostitutes, man your call centers!) And to fête the arrivals, the Democratic Governors Association has produced this Arcade Fire-backed motivational movie montage. Get. Pumped. Bloggers. [via]

Today Jersey Shore pugilist JWOWW debuted her predictably skanky Filthy Couture clothing line at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Every word of that sentence gave you a disease. Help us decide which of the outfits is the absolute worst.

Pentagon investigators are supposedly "desperately searching" for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian paranoiac who's always putting government secrets online, and is allegedly sitting on a big batch of intercepted State Department cables. We think we know where he is!

The Way We Live Now: Looking at the big picture. It lifts our battered spirits to think not just of our own poor circumstances, but of the bigger losses suffered by Jay-Z, and other rich folks. It's economics, or something.

Have you ever wandered around Vegas on psychedelic drugs? Me neither. But it must be crazy with all the lights and sounds and those intense carpets! The 25CPW gallery has a new show all about casino drug rugs. [New Yorker]

Should pregnant women be allowed to be pregnant, in public? Absolutely not. About this, Las Vegas' overpriced nightclubs and lingerie pimps are in clear agreement.

MTV has a poll up with some rather horrible suggestions for where they should film the ill-fated second season of the most important sociological experiment of our time. Sorry, but these just won't do. We have some better ideas.

The President keeps using Sin City as an example of dumb spending. Which is upsetting the people of Vegas, who need your dumb spending, irresponsibility and drunken plans that start with the word "dude," in order to survive.

The problem with condensed Twitter URLs: You can't see where they go. White House correspondent Major Garrett tweeted a URL last night, and it went to a Vegas call girl website. Vegas, where some White House folks go next month.

Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell is slowly making her way from her incarceration land of Utah back to the East Coast, upon which she will descend, formidably, all too soon. We have "obtained" photos of her recent stop in Las Vegas.

A funny thing happened on the way back to 11:35: Leno's Vegas comedy show has slashed ticket prices to buy-one-get-one rates. He's the only member of the Mirage Hotel's "Headliners" series to be forced to do so.

Harry Reid somehow rose to be the Senate Majority Leader! Reid recently used the descriptor "negro" when talking about President Obama. It made no sense. He has now apologized. Especially because he realized he's losing his office on it.

[Samsung puts on quite a display of displays for their booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opened today. Image via Getty]

As was inevitable: White House gatecrashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi will host Pure Nightclub party next Saturday. Their appearance fee: a slightly pathetic $5000.

Johnny Lee Wicks, who shot two cops in a Vegas courthouse yesterday, had been battling the government for two years over his Social Security benefits. I guess he lost. [Las Vegas Sun. Pic: AP]