November 20th, 2009

The law would ban smoking in bars and casinos. Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Trandahl ruled last week that opponents had collected enough signatures to force a public vote. Bar and casino owners had collected signatures to refer it to a vote, but the ...

November 20th, 2009

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona legislators are still struggling to conclude their special session on the state's budget troubles but already are working on ideas for another one that could be held in December to do more to close the $2 billion shortfall ...

November 20th, 2009

There is a feeling among those working for other teams that San Antonio's superiority is based on two lucky results in the lottery. Spurs insiders say that appearance of smugness doesn't exist within the organization, that there are too many pressing ...

November 20th, 2009

An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank would "substantially castrate the Fed so it cannot do what it was set up to do," Rep. Melvin Watt (D., N.C.) said yesterday, in an effort to tamp down a congressional uprising against the Bush/Obama economic team ...

November 20th, 2009

FRANKFORT, Ky.. – Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. But if your job is to listen to and report on Frankfort political leaders it’s hard to get into the spirit. Oh, some in Frankfort are in a giving spirit. Gov. Steve Beshear ...

November 20th, 2009

D.R. Horton was the biggest loser among S&P 500 stocks, down 16.2% to $10.27, after reporting a larger-than-expected loss for its fiscal fourth quarter. Dell was the second-worst S&P 500 performer -- and the worst among Nasdaq-100 ( $NDX.X ) stocks ...

November 20th, 2009

LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao proved he can be a box office hit. Now it's up to Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to see what they can do together. Pacquiao's big win over Miguel Cotto on Saturday was the biggest boxing show of the year, selling 1.25 ...

November 20th, 2009

Recover from your stressful holiday season with sizzling hot performances by Fisherman's Burlesque, Bastard Keith, Pinchbottom, Casino O'Fortune Cookie's burlesque tribute to Patrick Swayze , and a special holiday edition of Revealed!

November 20th, 2009

It now seems quite likely that the Senate has the 60 votes necessary to force cloture on the motion to proceed with the health care bill. The final three votes Senate majority leader Harry Reid needed were Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, and Mary ...

November 20th, 2009

If you know the difference between a pointspread and a parlay, you also undoubtedly know the NCAA has more contradictions than the Holy Bible when it comes to gambling. But even knowing that, this week was a little ridiculous wasn’t it? If not for ...