A little more than five years ago, Philip Parenti traded his job as administrator of the Illinois Gaming Board for a post with the Harrah's casino chain, which had two riverboats in Illinois and was eyeing an unused casino license held by the ...

Sitting in the poker room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas late last month, grizzled Texas hold ’em players kept one eye on their cards and another on the flat-screen TV monitors around the room. While various sorts of sports programming are ...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) announced today that CityCenter, a joint development project with Dubai World, successfully completed the first phase of its $3.0 billion financing package by securing a $1.8 billion ...

The Motown Historical Museum will leave you humming to the Temptations. Plan to spend at least an hour. Admission is $10 (1-313-875-2264; www.motown museum.com ). Another museum worth a visit is the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American ...

There are signs throughout the neon city that the Vegas economy has lost some of its shimmer. Casinos have laid off hundreds of workers. Hotels are slashing room rates. Foreclosure signs mar suburban streets. And now, the 99-cent shrimp cocktail has ...

British rockers Duran Duran will finish their latest tour in North America. The tour is in support of their album "Red Carpet Masacre". The album was the second release since the band re-united after ten years apart. Tour dates for Duran Duran are ...

A worker at ATI, which specializes in making high-tech alloys. With Wall Street going off the cliff, and housing prices still declining in many areas, both spending and lending are being squeezed all across the country. Consumer lending contracted ...

Director Gil Kenan, 31, whose only other film, "Monster House," was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Film, now gives us a shadowy, sci-fi version of "The Goonies" in keeping with the more sinister-feeling world in which we now live ...

Unless you stayed up to the bitter end, you missed the last question. It came over the Internet from Peggy in Amherst, N.H., and, as Tom Brokaw warned, it had a certain "Zen-like" quality: "What don't you know and how will you learn it?" This wasn't ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- It is the exhilarating rush of beating the odds and cashing in. Michigan is home to 22 casinos -- 19 tribal and three commercial -- that house 17,000 slot machines generating 80 to 90 percent profit. Tally in all games, and tribal ...