Blue and gold lights hung atop the lobby of a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino like frozen rain, each sparkling thread seemingly suspended in time. For eight decades, Harveys served as a familiar, immovable ...

This article contains information originally reported in 2005 and 2015. Hotel directors tried to pay extortionists the $3 million they wanted to keep a 1,000-pound homemade bomb from exploding in the ...