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News Brief: A gigantic billboard hovering over the Boardwalk drew quizzical looks from New Yorkers Helena and Josie Grants as they relaxed on a bench during a sunny afternoon.

News Brief: The slow economy hit Coast and Mississippi casinos in July, with gross casino revenues dipping 7 percent from last year.

News Brief: Opponents of slot machines in Maryland decried the wording of a ballot question to legalize expanded gambling Monday, saying it was crafted to garner more votes.

News Brief: As part of an annual revenue sharing agreement, the Forest County Potawatomi made a $10.12 million payment on Friday to the city and county of Milwaukee, putting the total amount shared at more than $73 million since 2000.

News Brief: A study commissioned by the Council Bluffs Chamber of Commerce indicates that the city's three casinos would lose nearly a third of their business if the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is allowed to build a casino in Carter Lake, Iowa.

News Brief: Gamblers spent more than $2.4 billion at Oklahoma's tribal casinos in 2007, according to a national industry report released Monday.

News Brief: The Catholic Church and California's Indian gaming tribes have struck a compromise that would permit a major expansion of conventional bingo while outlawing electronic versions played on machines that look and act a lot like slots.

Poker players at Excalibur heading into the casino's poker room will find a fully automated poker room.

American Indian casinos continued to churn out record gaming revenues in 2007 but not at the same annual growth rate seen over the past two decades.

BRE Presents welcomes singer-songwriter-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham in the Xanadu Theater at Trump Taj Mahal, on Saturday, October 11 at 8:00 p.m.

iCrete has delivered some of the world's most advanced and environmentally friendly concrete mix designs for the construction of Revel Casino Resort, Atlantic City's newest entertainment venue.

The clock is ticking towards summer's end, but the heat keeps rising with the line up of gay events in Las Vegas.

The Excalibur in Las Vegas shut down its poker room Sunday night and will re-open it this Friday, but there will be no live dealers or real poker chips. Instead, 12 PokerPro tables will be in place, giving Las Vegas its first electronic poker room.

Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis is having a free open air Corvette Show on Saturday, August 23rd from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

News Brief: A small fire broke out at the Tulalip Resort hotel and casino Sunday around 3:45 a.m.

News Brief: The ongoing slump in slot revenues continued at both Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in July.

The $200 million-plus makeover of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino last year helped the property narrow its losses in the second quarter.

News Brief: A ballot measure that would eliminate the loss limits at Missouri casinos and cap the number of licensed gambling boats was challenged by two lawsuits filed Thursday in Jefferson City.

News Brief: Remington Park will do fine regardless of whatever financial woes affect its parent company, Magna Entertainment Corp., track officials said Thursday.

The River Rock Entertainment Authority has reported the company's second quarter operating results for the period ended June 30, 2008.