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Checking out Connecticut's new casino hotels

With local travel the most attractive kind these days, you don't have to go far to be in on the biggest deal in American casino action - it's in southeast Connecticut, just a few hours' drive from the center of the island.

Both Foxwoods - the now-venerable first Connecticut casino dating from 1992 - and Mohegan Sun, just a few miles to the north, are spending close to a billion dollars to...

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