PHOENIX — More than 250 residents and tourists have evacuated an American Indian village in a remote offshoot of the Grand Canyon after weekend flooding that wrecked trails and nearly washed away some river rafters in the gorge.
Can you play poker with no cards, no chips and no dealers? Poker players at Excalibur are about to find out.
WASHINGTON — State Sen. Dina Titus has chosen not to interrupt her campaign for Congress, and will skip the Democratic National Convention in Denver, an aide said Monday.
LOS ANGELES — “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has solved the big mystery of who will replace departing CBS series star William Petersen: It’s award winning actor Laurence Fishburne.
A matchup brewing for months between two congressional candidates supplied the opening salvos for a series of debates that pitted political rivals against each other Monday.
California’s highest court on Monday said doctors have to perform elective procedures desired by gays and lesbians; they can’t get out of the obligation based on their religious beliefs.
The city of Las Vegas is prepared to pay a consulting firm $360,000 to quantify what council members, administrators and taxpayers already know: public employee salaries and benefits are breaking government budgets.
American Indian casinos continued to churn out record gaming revenues in 2007 but not at the same annual growth rate seen over the past two decades.
Another new search engine, more on destroying hard drives and a better way to keep tabs on the Democrats during their Denver shindig highlight today’s edition of Net Notes.
CHICAGO — Lowe’s Cos. posts dip in profits in quarter — Repairs to drought-stricken flower beds and sales of freezers designed to hold bought-in-bulk food helped Lowe’s Cos. post a better-than-expected second-quarter profit.
Financially strapped Herbst Gaming had another challenging quarter, losing $62.3 million while suffering revenue declines in both its slot machine route operations and casinos.
