Updated: 11:25 PM They need hundreds of workers and they need them by July 2ND, 2009. We're talking about the casinos in Cripple Creek.

Posted: 2:34 PM The Triple Crown Casinos and the Bronco Billy’s Casino of Cripple Creek are hiring up to 500 new employees. The need for these new employees stems from higher gaming stakes coming this July.

Posted: 11:01 AM President Barack Obama is telling federal agencies to limit the role lobbyists play in spending decisions and to work hard on cutting wasteful spending.

Updated: 10:21 AM Capitol Hill aides say the latest deficit figures produced by congressional economists show the federal budget deficit will exceed $1.8 trillion this year.

Updated: 8:50 PM President Barack Obama says his embattled treasury chief, Timothy Geithner, is doing an "outstanding job."

Posted: 8:45 PM Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she will accept just 69 percent of the estimated $930 million in federal stimulus funds that could flow to the state.

Posted: 8:40 PM Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has a few words to say about the fuss over the bonuses paid out bailed out insurer AIG: I told you so.

Posted: 1:31 PM Acting with lightning speed, the Democratic-led House has approved a bill to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from firms bailed out by taxpayers.

Posted: 1:23 PM The Federal Reserve is expanding a $1 trillion program aimed at jump-starting consumer and small business lending.

Posted: 9:23 AM No matter how well Colorado may be spending its $2 billion in federal stimulus money, an oversight board says the state is doing a lousy job answering public questions about how recovery spending works.

Posted: 5:55 PM The auditor of Crocs Inc. says it has "substantial doubt" about the Niwot-based shoe company's ability to stay in business amid falling revenue.

Updated: 1:40 PM The head of financially strapped AIG is telling Congress he's heard the rage over executive bonuses and has called on employees to voluntarily return at least half of the money.

Posted: 11:05 AM Sen. Michael Bennet says Colorado schools will get as much as $900 million in extra education aid, enough to save the jobs of thousands of teachers.

Posted: 7:56 PM Vice President Joe Biden is urging Democratic donors and supporters to use their influence to help get the president's budget approved by Congress.

Updated: 7:13 PM A top adviser to President Barack Obama's auto industry task force says bankruptcy is not the goal of the government's efforts to restructure General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.

Posted: 12:50 PM The Obama administration has rejected South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's request to use $700 million in federal stimulus cash to pay down state debt.

Posted: 12:19 PM President Obama says it's hard to understand how the executives deserved any extra pay, much less $165 million.

Updated: 11:03 PM Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's recession "probably" will end this year if the government succeeds in bolstering the banking system.

Posted: 1:32 PM The White House appears to be shifting its economic outlook with a top presidential adviser declaring the fundamentals of the economy are "solid."

Posted: 1:28 PM Analysts aren't expecting any big rate decisions out of this week's Federal Reserve meeting.

Posted: 6:43 AM The government says the U.S. trade deficit plunged in January to the lowest level in six years as a deepening recession cut demand for imported goods.

Posted: 7:30 PM Hungry budget cutters are eyeing some tasty targets at the Pentagon.

Updated: 4:20 PM Potential employees packed the Governor's Summer Job Hunt Thursday in hopes of scoring a job that will put some cash in their pockets.

Posted: 2:54 PM The Federal Reserve says commercial banks and investment firms borrowed less over the past week from its emergency lending program.

Posted: 2:44 PM Colorado families will receive nearly $130 million to make their homes more energy efficient as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.