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News Brief: West Virginia candidates running in the 30th District House of Delegates race were split on whether they'd vote to renew the 9,000 permits for video slot machines found in neighborhood gambling parlors.

News Brief: The Silver Reef Casino is ready to grow again, with an 8,000-squarefoot expansion set to break ground in May.

News Brief: Political camps squared off in a blame game in Philadeliphia City Council yesterday, one day after the state Supreme Court ruled in favor of Foxwoods' controversial proposed riverfront casino.

News Brief: A California tribe’s controversial proposal to build a casino in the East Bay is getting closer to a decision.

Proponents of two ballot initiatives that ask voters to reallocate hotel room tax dollars away from the Las Vegas Convention and Authority said municipalities challenging the proposals are violating Nevada law by doing so.

The sudden bankruptcy of ATA Airlines on Thursday left passengers in the lurch and disrupted service from Las Vegas to Hawaii, the second time this week a Hawaii-focused airline abruptly stopped flying.

The head of the state teachers union said Thursday that her organization will begin immediately to circulate a petition that would let voters decide whether to increase the gaming tax rate to benefit education.

News Brief: Commissioners for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kan., rebuffed by a 9-1 vote a proposal for a $777 million casino proposal at a meeting Thursday night.

Hooters Hotel's management said the economic downturn late last year drove fourth-quarter revenue down as the property saw departmentwide declines.

Gov. Jim Gibbons' administration is still gathering information on the financial effect of a recent Nevada Supreme Court ruling that says free meals given away by Nevada casinos are not subject to tax, a governor's spokesman said Wednesday.

Federal regulators on Wednesday acknowledged they are struggling to find ways to enforce a ban on Internet gambling.

This Cinco de Mayo weekend, prepare to laugh 'til you cry with the Latin Divas of Comedy at Spotlight 29 Casino.

Mount Airy Casino Resort has made it even easier for guests looking to escape the daily routine with online reservations.

McAfee, Inc. reports the results of "Greening Kickoff," an innovative project to minimize, rigorously measure and offset the environmental impact of a large corporate event in Las Vegas.

Jon S. Corzine, Governor of New Jersey, will deliver the luncheon keynote address at the 12th annual East Coast Gaming Congress to be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center on May 19-20.

Expert testimony to Congress today offered further evidence that the ban on Internet gambling won't work.

French Lick Resorts & Casino, LLC and French Lick Resorts & Casino Corp. have amended their tender offer launched on March 31, 2008.

Phuong Quoc Truong pleaded to conspiring to participate in the conduct of the affairs of a racketeering enterprise in a scheme to cheat at least 16 casinos across the country out of millions of dollars.

News Brief: The Missouri House of Representatives gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill that would prohibit the Missouri Gaming Commission from issuing a new license to casinos until Jan. 1, 2010.

Nevada lawmakers said Tuesday they expect the Legislature will hold hearings on safety lapses involved in deaths at Strip construction sites.