Indiana’s first fully integrated casino and racetrack opened this morning when the official first dollar slid into one of 2,000 new state-of-the art slot machines at the Las Vegas-style Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in Anderson. Hoosier Park owners and executives, along with community leaders and local citizens, celebrated the opening of the new 92,000-square-foot casino building with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Anderson - Owners say more than 500 new employees will be needed to operate the soon-to-open casino side of Hoosier Park Racing & Casino -- exciting news for East Central Indiana citizens more accustomed to job losses from the faltering auto industry. "It is a better opportunity for me," said Patricia Moore, a 2-month employee who on Tuesday was among the Hoosier staff dishing up crab cakes, bread pudding and dozens of other selections...