PAOLI #8212; A judge faces a decision on whether a gambler must repay $75,000 in loans from a southern Indiana casino where he claims workers kept serving him bourbon drinks while he was drunk. Visit link: Casino loans weighed (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)

The Irving City Council voted Thursday to provide up to $500,000 in loans meant to ensure the interest payments on a developer’s city-backed $24 million loan are made. Excerpt from: Irving City Council approves $500,000 in loans to cover Heritage District developer’s interest payments (Dallas Morning News)

If you can’t manage two car loans, sell one and take a financial loss. Don’t ruin your credit. Continued here: 2 car loans could kill your credit (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)

The mortgage-finance giants may force lenders including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup to buy back $21 billion of home loans Go here to see the original: Fannie, Freddie May Ask Banks to Eat $21 Billion of Sour Loans (BusinessWeek)

U.S. banks could suffer losses of $7 billion this year when those loans are returned and get marked down to their true value, according to estimates by Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Chris Kotowski . Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both controlled by the U.S. government, stuck the four biggest U.S. banks with losses of about $5 billion on buybacks in 2009, according to company filings made in the past...

Pinnacle Entertainment today announced that its newest casino, River City, opened to the public on Thursday, March 4 at 2 p.m. in the south St. Louis County community of Lemay. The casino represents an investment of $357 million, excluding operating cash, non-cash rent accruals and capitalized interest, and created approximately 600 construction-phase jobs and 1,200 permanent jobs for the region. Read...