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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2010 file photo, horses start the fifth race at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Saratoga Springs' racetrack is still going strong as it marks its 150th anniversary this summer, the centerpiece attraction in a town that's also known for mineral springs, Victorian charm and upscale hotels, shops and restaurants.  (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Saratoga marks 150 years of thoroughbred racing

Mineral springs, gambling and horses. In this world-famous thoroughbred racing hotbed, the four-legged stars who have drawn people here since the bloodiest days of the Civil War actually took third billing coming out of the 19th-century tourism starting gate, trailing the resort spas and the casinos that offered visitors a ...

$35M Margaritaville complex opens at AC's Resorts

Mitchell Etess thinks he knows the biggest thing that was wrong with New Jersey's oldest casino. "There weren't a whole lot of people sitting around New Jersey or Pennsylvania that said, 'Let's go party tonight in Resorts,'" said Etess, whose Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority now runs Resorts Casino Hotel. "I ...

Oregon Editorial Rdp

Editorials from Oregon newspapers Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, on shopping for health insurance. A funny thing happened on the way to health care reform: Insurance companies began to compete with each other, right out in the open. A comparison of premiums that health insurers propose to begin charging next ...

FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, show attendees walk past Microsoft XBox booth at E3 2012 in Los Angeles. With the next Xbox expected to finally be revealed Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., anticipation for what the company is planning for the next iteration of its gaming console is higher than Master Chief's last spaceship. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment

Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the past two years, ...

AC's Revel exits bankruptcy court

Just over a year after it opened, Atlantic City's newest casino has gone into bankruptcy and gotten out of it, ready to start again. Revel formally completed a Chapter 11 restructuring Tuesday that saw it wipe away $1.2 billion of its $1.5 billion in debt, in return for granting lenders ...

Pa. board OKs charges to use new resort casino

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has approved charges that non-resort guests must pay to gamble at a soon-to-open casino at a southwestern Pennsylvania resort. Under the plan approved Monday, customers must spend $10 at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort to gain one-time entry into the Lady Luck Casino, scheduled to open in ...

A vehicle passes the front of the Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. The highest Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $590.5 million was sold recently at this Publix supermarket. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)

Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city ...

This May 3, 2013 photo shows the swimming pool at the Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland, Md. Maryland’s fourth casino is tentatively scheduled to open Wednesday, May 22, pending state regulators’ approval of the slot machines and table games at a demonstration Monday, May 20. (AP Photo/Cumberland Times-News, Greg Larry)  WHAG-TV OUT

Rocky Gap Casino offers new deal in western Md.

The flashy jangle of slot machines is a far cry from the stillness of Rocky Gap State Park in western Maryland, but state and local leaders are betting that this week's planned casino opening will transform a struggling lakeside lodge into the economic engine its planners envisioned 15 years ago. ...

Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the ...

Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla

It's all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to ...

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