| Vegas-style slots at the Hard Rock
The Seminole Tribe began operating upgraded Las Vegas-style slot machines Monday, even as Miami-Dade voters prepared to decide whether to create more competition for the tribe's enormous Hard Rock casino near Hollywood. Miami-Dade voters will cast ballots today on whether to allow slots at Flagler Dog Track, Calder Race Course and Miami Jai-Alai. The new ''Class III'' slot machines put the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino -- at Stirling Road and U.S. 441 on the tribe's Hollywood reservation -- on a par with the four racinos that have opened since Broward voters approved them in 2005. Class III machines enable players to gamble only against the house, compared to Class II machines, which are connected so that players compete with one another in a form of electronic bingo.
Fierce storms drench California
Taking advantage of a lull in a week of storms, searchers found the body of Christopher Allport, one of two people reported missing Friday near the Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood. Allport, 60, was a character actor who has appeared on such TV shows as ER, Felicity and Matlock. He was the third skier killed in the avalanche. Meanwhile, large swaths of California braced for another bout of heavy rain. Storms have dumped rain onto Southern California since Monday, with some areas receiving more moisture in that time than during the entire rainy season last year. LOS ANGELES Small private copter crashes on freeway A helicopter pilot was killed when his small craft crashed into the southbound lanes of the Harbor Freeway in South Los Angeles and burst into flames, authorities said.
Glendale Unveiled for XLII: Have a Bite of Desert
You would think an area that touts itself as the Valley of the Sun, with 320 days of sunshine, would be used to heat. Well, it's about to get a lot hotter. Never has the sun shone so brightly here as it will for Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3. Sure, Tempe hosted Super Bowl XXX in 1996, but 12 years later the Phoenix area has grown by more than a million people, added some 100 miles of highways and is building light rail transit. Meanwhile, Sky Harbor Airport has constructed an additional runway and control tower and now is one of the 10 busiest airports in the nation. And that's to say nothing of Glendale's year-and-a-half-old University of Phoenix Stadium, with its retractable roof and rollout grass field. Indeed, the site of Super Bowl XLII was recently voted the best NFL stadium by Sports Business Journal.
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