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The Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the Hard Rock business, including its massive collection of rock 'n' roll memorabilia, in a $965 million deal with British casino and hotel company Rank Group PLC, the tribe announced Thursday. The Hard Rock business includes 124 Hard Rock Cafes, four Hard Rock Hotels, two Hard Rock Casino Hotels, two Hard Rock Live! concert venues, and stakes in three unbranded hotels. With it, the tribe acquires what is said to be the world's largest collection of rock memorabilia, some 70,000 pieces including Jimi Hendrix's Flying V guitar, one of Madonna's bustiers, a pair...

Just saw this at during an episode of American Eats. Commercial showed a kid performing in a school play about the pilgrims and he talked about how the pilgrims "stole the indians food and robbed their graves." Didn't even talk about the good they did in the commercial. It comes out on 11/19 at 8 eastern.

SELLS, Ariz. – The latest front in the federal government's struggle to control the border with Mexico runs partly across 75 miles of sand, tall saguaro cactuses and mesquite creosote brush, guarded by brooding mountains 8,000 feet high. Congress wants to build a triple fence along the border to make it tougher for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers trying to cross. The barricade would divide an American Indian tribe whose people were on this land four millenniums before the birth of Christ. “We didn't ask for this fence to be built here,” said Chairwoman Vivian Juan-Saunders of the Tohono O'odham...

A Sunny Isles Beach man thought he won nearly $260,000 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino -- until casino officials told him there was a computer malfunction. BY TODD WRIGHT twright@MiamiHerald.com For about three hours, Freddy Howard was showered with all the glamour and glory he had ever dreamed of. The struggling actor was told he had just won a $260,000 jackpot at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood in the early hours of Aug. 29. Complete strangers were asking to take pictures with him. Others ran up to hug him, and casino employees shook...

MIAMI -- A struggling actor paraded around a local casino after managers told him he won a nearly $260,000 jackpot later found out he won nothing at all. Freddy Howard, 53, of Sunny Isles Beach, took part in a free promotional game, the Swipe and Win Progressive jackpot, while at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood early on Aug. 29. Howard swiped his Players Club card and said a hostess and supervisor broke the news, he won $259,945.75. For three hours, Howard was showered with all the attention he dreamed of. As he told it, casino workers...