November 7th, 2009

Reporting from Kelseyville, Calif. - The line cooks had matching stickers pasted to their chef's jackets one Saturday night in mid-October, brave words for a bleak reality: "We are the future of Konocti." Sad-eyed housekeepers clutched instructions ...

November 6th, 2009

A storm bringing the first heavy snows of autumn to a large swath of the Rockies and western plains crippled parts of Colorado and Wyoming Wednesday, forcing road closures and sending students home early as the region battled up to 2 feet of snow but ...

November 1st, 2009

Small, eager children in costume were just emerging, with parents in tow, from their homes to begin trick-or-treating this afternoon in a Dorchester neighborhood, as police scoured the area for evidence in a shooting that left two men hospitalized ...

November 5th, 2009

The owners have been in the jewelry business for 40 years and own three stores in Las Vegas, including outlets in the Venetian and Planet Hollywood casinos. The Fresno store will open in this month. * MAC Cosmetics is scheduled to open a store in the ...

November 6th, 2009

Talk of closure comes almost one year after another Black Gaming property, the Oasis Casino and Hotel, closed ... Stations Casinos defaulted on their loans earlier this year, while the Tropicana declared bankruptcy in early 2008. Others such as the ...

November 6th, 2009

HOUSTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Landry's Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: LNY; the "Company"), today announced its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Revenues from continuing operations for the three months ended September 30 ...

November 4th, 2009

I first became aware of my wallet when it started to hurt me. Before that I had often taken a hit in the wallet, but this was the first time the wallet had taken a hit into me. Up until that time I had always carried my wallet in my back pocket ...

November 5th, 2009

International Game Technology on Thursday posted a fiscal fourth-quarter loss, but said it thinks demand for its slot machines and casino management systems has stabilized. The company posted a loss of $21.3 million, or 7 cents per share, compared ...

November 2nd, 2009

It started with the Sept. 24 cover of Time magazine and since then it seems the national and out-of-state media have been piling on Michigan. Time trumpeted “The Tragedy of Detroit.” “By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support ...

November 5th, 2009

Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazine have compiled a list of the world’s top 100 intellectuals , including only 10 women . Germaine Greer, the feminist and one-time celebrity Big Brother contestant, and anti-globalisation journalist Naomi ...