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Las Vegas Sands Corp.launched a spectacular music, light, and firework display that officially opened the company's new $1.9 billion resort -- The Palazzo Las Vegas.

The tightening lending market is jeopardizing the ownership of the Cosmopolitan, a multibillion-dollar hotel-condominium development under construction on the Strip.

The Deutsche Bank has delivered a notice of loan default to the developer of the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino project under construction in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mount Airy Casino Resort will be offering special packages for the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, as well as hosting a two-night limited engagement by The Party Dolls.

Neither Floyd Mayweather nor the Rolling Stones were around to draw tourists to Las Vegas in November, and it showed in the monthly visitation tally.

Nearly all of the 64 slots in the fourth National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace will be filled by big-name poker pros, with a smattering of celebrity types rounding out the field.

Gaming stocks are plummeting and Wall Street is frenzied with fears that people are spending much less of their hard-earned cash in casinos.

The National Indian Gaming Commission has been exploring ways to restore NIGC’s oversight role in Class III Indian gaming removed by the decision in Colorado River Indian Tribes v. NIGC.

Adding drawn-out drama to instant gratification, the California Lottery has issued tickets for the new Scratchers game, California Millionaire.

News Brief: More than 300 Illinois casino patrons were arrested in 2007 as a result of criminal warrant checks and four additional people were arrested for being unregistered sex offenders, state officials revealed Tuesday.

New Brief: Boomtown Casino reopens Saturday with a Wild West look and a new spirit.

News Brief: The bidding for Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino and Resort has officially began and published reports suggest that some two dozen potential bidders are in the mix.

News Brief: The Sumner County Commission won't take any further action regarding casino endorsements,including the Mulvane casino application.

News Brief: Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is betting $81 million that the Kansas courts ultimately will approve the casino gambling law enacted by the Legislature last year.

News Brief: Fees reported by lobbyists representing Massachusetts gambling interests skyrocketed to $1.2 million in 2007, a flood of money that is expected to continue rising in 2008 as the Beacon Hill debate continues to heat up.

To improve equine racing operations in Pennsylvania, Governor Edward G. Rendell has announced the consolidation of the administrative offices for thoroughbred and standardbred racing.

MTR Gaming Group reports that since full commencement of table games on December 20, 2007, table games and poker have generated approximately $3 million in revenues as of January 13th.

News Brief: Atlantic City's Housing Authority has dropped a reverter clause from its agreement with Revel Entertainment Group, allowing Revel access to millions of dollars in financing.

News Brief: The New Jersey Casino Control Commission reports that Tropicana conservator Gary Stein has asked the commission to approve hiring several advisors to help handle an upcoming sale of the property.

The Spring Gateway at Mohegan Sun will be hosting the World's Strongest Man's elite in a strength competition by lifting as much weight as possible using the IronMind Rolling Thunder Revolving Dead Lift Handle.