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At the Minden plant of Tahoe Creamery, the locally owned ice cream outfit, you'll find ice cream makers humming up batches, a walk-in freezer sheltering a sweet hoard of pints, a custom-made rotating pint filler (complete with nifty lid presser) and all manner of gleaming silvery surfaces.

Comedian Kevin Nealon is followed by a vociferous group of local high school kids — about 10 in all — who are all wearing brown Team Nealon T-shirts. They are Nealon's posse for this event, and by proxy, also Barkley's.

Horseshoe Casino paid four off-duty officers to help direct traffic. Those officers were supplemented by on-duty policemen.

Thursday's figures from the state Gaming Control Board, listing the casino win for May 2008: _STATEWIDE: $969.9 million, down 15.2 percent. _LAS VEGAS STRIP: $513.5 million, down 16.4 percent. _DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS: $48.2 million, down 17.3 percent. _NORTH LAS...

BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - It's been a few years since anyone in the Ark-La-Tex paid $1.40 for a gallon of gasoline. But thanks to one area casino, that's all it cost some folks.

at the MontBleu casino at Stateline with 100 grams of Ecstasy for which they were to be paid $3500. ...