When you come to St. Charles to gamble at the Ameristar, you better be focused. This is the big time. Vegas?! Whatever. You come to the Ameristar for one thing: to play…and listen to 80′s cover bands in one of their theme bars, so ok, two things. Regardless, you need to be locked the hell in the minute you park your car. Not just focused mind you, but “don’t notice that obviously dead lady in her car” locked in.

About 12 days after she parked 13 spaces from the Ameristar Casino’s fourth-floor garage entrance, a passer-by finally noticed Hattie Bradley’s body Friday morning.

Bradley, 62, had died days earlier, apparently of natural causes, police said.

[She was found after] a man walked up to the Mustang between midnight and 12:30 a.m. Friday and asked whether Hadley was OK. When she didn’t respond, the man went into the casino to gamble, he said. When he came out, about 3:30 a.m., Bradley was in the same position, and he realized something was wrong.

He knocked on her window and asked he she was ok, but after not zero response, not even a twitch — because she was freaking dead — he decided that “she’s fine…or not. Don’t care. Must gamble.”?! Oh yeah, St. Louis city is a cold horrible place but people in St. Charles County…they really care. Someone should go check on this guy’s kids immediately, he might be under the impression that they’ve been napping for the last 5 years to give him more time to finally master roulette.

via STLToday and H/T DailyRFT

Former 93.7 the Bull’s morning show host Craig Cornett‘s fans have been waiting for some time now to find out what Cornett’s next big project would be. A new job at a local music station? Maybe a straight talk format show? Something online? Nope! The first real mention of Craig Cornett  since dropping of the airwaves in August of 2009 is about…Cornett beating the hell out of a 75 year old man in the parking lot of a casino!

Authorities said Cornett, 45, of O’Fallon, Mo., admitted to assaulting a 75-year-old man who, a St. Charles County deputy said, “was unable to defend himself due to his age and frailty” in the parking lot of the Ameristar Casino on Dec. 30, 2010.

Yup, this sounds bad, but lets be fair here. This could be some kind of performance art. Maybe Cornett’s “performance” here is saying that life is futile. Like, sure you think you’re sitting at age 75 thinking you’ve dodged life’s best shots to take you down and all you want to do is go slam nickels in to a slot machine as you wait for natural causes to take their toll when out of nowhere, a former country station morning show host jumps out of his car and beats you like you like a bitch. You know, performance art! …wacky morning show gag maybe?

In a court document, authorities said Cornett struck the man in the head and face repeatedly with his fist “causing the crime victim to fall back into a metal vehicle door. Cornett continually struck the crime victim when no resistance or aggression was presented. The crime victim sustained numerous lacerations, contusions and swelling about his head and face.”

Nothing says “keeping busy” like frequenting St. Charles casinos and fighting old men in the parking lot. Be sure to check out Cornett’s next big projects that include kicking little girls in the neck and telling area vending machines that he “…used to be somebody! I used to be on the radio!”

Cornett is out on bond and will be charged with third-degree assault. A crime that carries a maximum of one year in jail.

This video Cornett made in June of 2009 now seems oddly appropriate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSKOWwLqgug

via STLToday (and our tipsters for the video link!)

Well great. How are we supposed to get amazing AA-list celebrities to come to St. Louis now without the Ameristar Casino’s HOME nightclub?! The club announced Sunday it has closed its doors, taking with it the chance to see HOME veterans again like Paris Hilton, Danny Masterson, Kim Kardashion and, talent oozing from every pore, Wilber Valderama…oh god…that’s not talent is it? I think that’s infection left over from Lindsay Lohan. Gross.

Though the press release, sent to a few media outlets on Sunday afternoon, has yet to appear on the Ameristar Press Release page (Update: Its up now. Link.), the Riverfront Times quoted this chunk:

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. has closed HOME Nightclub at Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles. The venue’s last night of operation was Aug. 22. Ameristar Sr. Vice President and General Manager Jim Franke said that while HOME had met Ameristar’s standards of quality and excellence in becoming one of St. Louis’ premiere nightclubs, the venue was unable to sustain profitability. “We want to thank our guests and appreciated their patronage and loyalty in making HOME one of the top nightclubs not only in the St. Louis area, but throughout the Midwest region,” Franke said. There are no immediate plans to physically change the HOME venue. Franke said Ameristar will continue to use the facility as an exciting high-energy venue for the property’s group sales business. Despite changes to improve the financial performance of HOME – including programming and scheduling formats – the venue was unable to achieve successful financial results, Franke said.

If you can’t turn a profit with $13 vodka tonics, we aren’t sure what else can help you.

The real losers in all of this news are the Jersey Shore kids. They lost one of only a few places that would bring them in to “host” a party. All they have left now is InsideSTL events at Fifteen.

Click through the jump to see photos of the HOME hall of fame.

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