Some of the 800 Vegas-style slot machines installed at the Hard Rock casino near Tampa last year. Photo by Willie J. Allen Jr., Tampa Bay Times. Wake up and good morning . Don't look now but the Seminole Indian Tribe and its Hard Rock Casino empire ( 2009 revenues of $2 billion and growing) is expanding rapidly -- far beyond the I-4 Hard Rock gambling site just east of Tampa (where it plans to ...

Five municipal fire departments in Seminole County have received a federal grant of more than $775,000 to help purchase radio equipment.

HOLLYWOOD, FL-- - Barry Weiss, star of "Storage Wars," A&E's reality series that follows teams of bidders looking to score it big in the high stakes world of storage auctions, will make a special ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Downtown Las Vegas was the perfect training ground for Phil Madow. Madow's 24 years in Las Vegas, including 18 years in key executive positions with the Four Queens Hotel and Casino downtown, prepared him to oversee the Seminole Indian Tribe's flagship resort.

You would think they’d be jumping for joy. Or at least quietly giving each other fist bumps. The “District of Doom” — Class 5A, District 11 — has been reshuffled. Tarpon Springs, East Lake, Dunedin, Seminole and Clearwater no longer have to fight each other for a playoff berth. The Spongers have been exiled to Pasco. Dunedin has been sent south. East Lake is in a four-team district. Seminole and ...

The Western Oklahoma State College Pioneers split a doubleheader at Seminole on Thursday night. Western women pulled off a surprise 69-61 victory over Seminole Thursday using an up tempo style of p...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Sitting in the lounge of NYY Steak in the newly remodeled Seminole Coconut Creek Casino, Tony Sanchez Jr., took a few moments to ponder a question about the nature of the Seminole Indian Tribe's relationship with its home state

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida -- Sitting in the lounge of NYY Steak in the newly remodeled Seminole Casino Coconut Creek , Tony Sanchez Jr., took a few moments to ponder a question about the nature of the Seminole Indian Tribe's relationship with its home state of Florida.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Downtown Las Vegas was the perfect training ground for Phil Madow. Madow's 24 years in Las Vegas, including 18 years in key executive positions with the Four Queens downtown, prepared him to oversee the Seminole Indian Tribe's flagship

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A bill that would have ushered in the largest gambling expansion in Florida history was withdrawn by its legislative sponsor on Friday, killing for now the prospect of allowing up to three mega-resort casinos in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. The bill, which proponents said could lead to 100,000 new jobs for the state, faced a probable defeat at its first ...