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News Brief: Tunica, Mississippi, a county built on having the odds in its favor, is going through a rare rough stretch.

News Brief: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has set a special session to take up a host of issues, including the reauthorization of the Department of Employment Security and a prohibition on the expansion of casino gambling.

While there may be one heck of a grand opening for the $9.2 billion CityCenter on the Strip, actual opening dates for the various buildings will differ.

Sunstone Spa, part of the newly opened resort at Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa in Rancho Mirage, is offering a grand opening treatment special

Littlefield Corporation reports that it has participated with others representing approximately thirty-five licensed commercial lessors in the founding of the Texas Association for the Advancement of Charitable Bingo.

Spa Resorts Casinos releases the June entertainment at the Cascade Lounge.

Veteran casino executive and long-time Agua Caliente team member Jeffrey Pepple has been appointed General Manager at Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs.

Wynn Las Vegas filed a lawsuit in District Court on Wednesday to force former National Basketball Association star Charles Barkley to pay back $400,000 in gambling markers the casino alleges it extended him last year.

While Las Vegas miniaturizes landmarks — the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty — the CityCenter skyline towering above the 76-acre site seems larger than life.

Seneca Gaming Corp. is drafting a development plan for Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls.

News Brief: The 7th Street Casino on Thursday made its first quarterly payment, in the amount of $152,416.24, to the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has lowered their revenue expectations for Southern Nevada resorts, predicting room taxes for the year will be $8 million less than forecast.

The Las Vegas-based HIV/AIDS charity Golden Rainbow will present its 22nd annual "Ribbon of Life" fundraising production show on June 14 and 15 in Le Theatre des Arts at Paris Las Vegas.

News Brief: A newly-appointed five-member advisory board will divvy up the share of taxes on the Hollywood Casino.

News Brief: As travel costs continue to rise, some analysts say closer-to-home regional casinos might attract gamblers away from 'destination' gaming centers like Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

News Brief: Massachusetts Senate Republicans will try to amend the state budget to legalize casino gambling when the Senate debates its proposed $28 billion spending plan next week.

Three off-Strip properties are addressing the economic pinch by increasing promotional spending, although they are taking separate approaches to cost-cutting efforts.

With the nation's economy in a tailspin and spending and confidence levels of consumers reaching all-time lows, the nation's casino companies are feeling squeezed.

The cost to build MGM Mirage's massive CityCenter development has cracked the $9 billion mark.

CityCenter today commemorated the 'topping out' of its 57-story Vdara Condo Hotel, the first of six distinctive high-rise towers that will be topped within the coming months.