Penn National Gaming, Inc. PENN announced today that, subject to customary regulatory approvals, Ameet Patel has been named General Manager of its Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa in Riverside, Missouri, effective October 14, 2008. Mr. Patel currently ...

Eager customers lined up for free gas at the Shell station in north Palm Springs to take advantage of a California Lottery giveaway on Friday. The deal was simple: The first 200 cars to pull up to a pump between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and buy $10 in ...

The lowdown: Casino Windsor has undergone an expansion to coincide with its change this year to Caesars Windsor. The $400-million (Canadian) project consists of a 400-room hotel tower, a theater (the Colosseum) that can seat 5,000 people, and 100,000 ...

Authorities arrested a bus driver on suspicion of drunk driving early Monday in the aftermath of a horrific crash on a rural Colusa County road that left eight casino-bound passengers dead and 35 others injured. Quintin Joey Watts, 52, of Stockton ...

LAKE STATION | Christine Caine carefully opened the door to her flood-ravaged mobile home in Riverside Trailer Park knowing full well what to expect. "Ooooh. Just the smell alone," Caine said, wrinkling her nose. She returned to her home, which is ...

DineEquity Inc. , which last year acquired Lenexa-based Applebee’s International , said same-store sales at Applebee’s restaurants were off 3.1 percent for the quarter ended Sept. 30. Same-store sales for the first nine months of 2008 decreased 1 ...

Lady Antebellum's music has been soaring up the charts, quickly making the Nashville trio one of country's hottest acts. And it all has happened within a relatively short time. "When the iron is hot you have to strike and just kind of go with it ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Their paths crossed at Sunday dinner, a police officer and a man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, when the story of a girl's disappearance 40 years ago unfolded. Larry Adams told Officer Mike McGee about his 14-year-old daughter ...

Various signs are pinned haphazardly to a shack of unpainted cypress wood, topped with a roof of galvanised, corrugated steel. One of them says the dress code should not be "like this", pointing to a picture of a man wearing a back-to-front cap ...

As Summer Dies: 7 p.m. The Ritz, 24300 Hoover, Warren. 586-756-6140. $10. Days of the New: With Babcock, 8 p.m. The Hayloft, 140 N. Main, Mt. Clemens. 586-468-1010. $15. Engelbert Humperdinck: 9 p.m. Caesars Windsor, 377 Riverside Drive, Windsor. 800 ...