AP - As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to blue.

Hollywood Casino opened its newest location to great fanfare. The casino now has a location next to the Kansas Speedway. NASCAR stars Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne were on hand for the grand opening festivities. Though it just opened on Friday, February 3, 2012, there are already...

When Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway opened on Friday it became the first gaming-themed property planned, built and owned by International Speedway Corporation. The $411 million facility that overlooks turn two of the 1.

Sheldon Adelson, whose family largely bankrolled the revival of the candidate's Republican presidential bid, stands apart from other barons on the Las Vegas Strip. On a Strip packed with colorful, sometimes controversial gambling titans, Sheldon Adelson plays politics a little differently from the rest.

Reuters - Stephen Colbert's presidential aspirations may not be serious, but his fundraising is. The late-night television comedian's Super PAC announced on Tuesday that it has raised more than $1 million.

Although it’s invitation-only, don’t mistake today’s exclusive event sneak preview of the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway as some swank affair for big shots and the well-connected. Today isn’t about glitz as much as it is a nine-hour dress rehearsal for a target audience of state regulators.

Reuters - Hundreds of mourners gathered at a Los Angeles-area church on Saturday to remember rhythm-and-blues singer Etta James, saying she overcame great personal and professional hurdles to sing "the times that she lived."

AP - Demi Moore smoked something before she was rushed to the hospital on Monday night and was convulsing and "semi-conscious, barely," according to a caller on a frantic 911 recording released Friday by Los Angeles fire officials.

AUGUSTA -- Ethics investigators got clearance Wednesday to look into whether campaign finance reports filed by supporters of a casino proposed last year in Lewiston properly disclosed the source of their funding.

Reuters - Country singer Merle Haggard, who was admitted to a Georgia hospital last week after illness forced him to cancel a show, was recovering from a host of health issues discovered while he was being treated for pneumonia, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

LANSING, Mich., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Critics of a proposal by the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians for a casino in Lansing, Mich., say the off-reservation project is "not viable."

There is news that a gambling casino employing a lot of people and expected to generate a lot of money is likely to be built in Hardeeville. In other investment news there was an article about the high yield for those who "invest in sin stock.

Construction of Toledo's Hollywood Casino will be complete by March, and its executives would like it to be the first of the state's four voter-approved casinos to open in Ohio.

The Hollywood Casino hasn't opened yet, but already the City of Toledo is betting on the gaming venue to help balance its budget this year.

AP - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such "artifacts" as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.

The Potawatomi Casino will make a major announcement Tuesday that may be related to the establishment building a hotel.