For the second straight year, gaming revenues produced by nation’s commercial casino industry tumbled as the recession caused gamblers to watch their wallets more closely.
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Amanda Fatheree had about an hour to flee the floodwaters from her west Nashville home Sunday with her husband, mother and three young children. What she saw when she returned a day later left her heartbroken.
LOS ANGELES — Poison frontman Bret Michaels thought a burglar shot him in the back of the head when he suffered a brain hemorrhage last month that left him in intensive care for nearly two weeks. The outspoken 47-year-old contestant on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” told People magazine that the subarachnoid hemorrhage “sounded like a handgun, like it literally popped.”
While MGM Mirage isn’t planning to publicly try its dispute with Perini Building Co. over payment of $500 million in CityCenter construction costs, company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Murren doesn’t want to lose the perception battle either.