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News Brief: The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission plans to ask for more time to complete background checks the companies that are selected to manage the four state-owned and -operated casinos, its executive director said Tuesday.

News Brief: A proposed ballot initiative that would allow gambling cities in Colorado to raise betting limits, extend casino hours and add games is getting financial support from some of the state's larger casinos.

News Brief: The countdown has begun, and all systems are go nine days before the scheduled opening of a new casino at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.

New Brief: The Ho-Chunk tribe missed an initial budget deadline Monday to pay an estimated $72 million in gambling money that state officials are counting on to help balance an already stressed state budget.

News Brief: Leaders of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation on Monday dug into the earth on a site just off Highway 97, where next summer a new $24 million Omak Casino will open for business.

News Brief: In exchange for state permission to run 5,000 slots at the coming Red Hawk Casino, the the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians have agreed the largest share yet agreed to by any California gaming-operator tribe.

Southern California gamblers who regularly drive to Las Vegas have cut back their visits by a third because of record gas prices, and those who still come say they’ve cut their gambling back by 29 percent, a new poll has found.

The Producers of the popular NBC-TV show, “Deal or No Deal” will be conducting an open casting call for fresh and new contestants at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino Special Events Center.

One of the most celebrated artists in country music history, Wynonna Judd will be performing in the Grand Cayman Ballroom at Trump Marina.

Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis paid out $55,000 to the top three slot players in the finals of Hollywood ’s $100,000 Superstars Slot Tournament on Saturday.

This August, Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa in Rancho Mirage and Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs are giving away thousands in cash, a cutting-edge motor bike and more, in a month that offers one of the luckiest days of the year: 08/08/08 otherwise known as 8-8-8.

Fantasy Springs Resort Casino is proud to congratulate the third and final winner of a brand new, 2008 Porsche Boxter in the “Red, White and Blue Giveaway”, Lorena Morina Miller of Indio, California.

Pennsylvania Lottery retailers in Beaver, Chester, Cumberland and Lebanon counties sold the four $1 million top-prize winning tickets from the Lottery's July 5 Millionaire Raffle drawing.

Governor David Paterson has signed legislation granting an enhanced revenue structure to cover expenditures of a $1 billion dollar world-class gaming resort destination at the site of the historic Concord Hotel in Sullivan County, N.Y.

Maurice Hawkins may not be a household name in the poker world, but the Florida native can match words with the best of them. And as he tried to stay alive, Stefan Mattsson, a Swede who can certainly back up his words with his play, was building another healthy stack.

News Brief: As Twin River’s owners struggle to pay back the hundreds of millions of dollars they borrowed to buy and renovate their sprawling video-slot emporium, the state has taken steps to safeguard its share of the money.

News Brief: California inland governments and tribes are fighting to preserve millions in payments meant to help public agencies deal with the burdens of the region's tribal casinos.

News Brief: Gov. Charlie Crist's top advisers met with representatives of the Seminole Tribe to discuss what comes next after the Florida Supreme Court's decision that Crist had no authority to allow blackjack and table games at tribal casinos.

Through it all -- the mob reign, the Howard Hughes revolution, the rise of the megaresorts -- Rossi Ralenkotter had a front-row seat.

For the first time in recent memory, two benchmark indicators of the health of Las Vegas, the number of hotel rooms in development and airline seat capacity at McCarran International Airport, are moving in opposite directions.