EMMETT TOWNSHIP — The $2 million that local governments are expected to receive from FireKeepers Casino might not go as far as some hope it will. Two percent of the casino's estimated $100 million in annual electronic gaming revenue will go to ...

On Sept. 23, Full House Resorts announced the completion of the structural iron work for FireKeepers Casino, and held a "topping off" ceremony in celebration. FireKeepers Casino is being built next to I-94 in Emmett Township, near Battle Creek. The ...

EMMETT TOWNSHIP — Trustees here on Thursday approved an agreement allowing the township to recoup expenses for providing emergency services at FireKeepers Casino. Trustees unanimously approved the 55-page document, a revised version of a 2001 ...

Is anyone else disappointed and outraged? The two presidential candidates both told us in their last debate that earmarks and pork-barrel spending must be stopped. Then, only a few days later, they voted to pass the bailout bill that is full of it ...

MARSHALL — More workers will be added to the construction of FireKeepers Casino in October, and they'll work through the winter, casino officials said Friday. Duane Wixson, senior project manager for casino construction, told a packed audience at a ...

People walk to assess neighborhood damage in Pearland this morning after Hurricane Ike made landfall. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett urged residents to stay in their homes and conserve water today as officials assess the damage dealt by Ike. As ...

EMMETT TOWNSHIP — FireKeepers Casino is now roughly 20 percent complete after a “topping off” ceremony today marked the installment of the last piece of structural iron. About three dozen construction workers and members of the Nottawaseppi ...

In this July 27, 1946 file photo, bodies, including May Dorsey's are shown--just one case of hundreds that remain unsolved from the civil rights era. In this July 27, 1946 file photo, bodies, including May Dorsey's are shown--just one case of ...

From a very early age, I was taught that the original Star Wars was the greatest movie ever made. You see, my dad has a thing for science fiction movies and a love of the genre which he instilled in me from the time he deemed me old enough to watch ...

On a high-desert morning soon to be hot as hell, Michael Nesmith - former Monkee, current philanthropist, and perpetual man-with-a-mission - enters a cool room just big enough to comfortably hold five brains. Not the organs, of course, but five live ...