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News Brief: Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino opened its racing season Thursday with a big increase in betting on its races televised at other tracks, including Calder Race Course and Pompano Park, which did not televise Gulfstream last year.

News Brief: New York state officials are crafting a deal that would weaken the New York Racing Association's control of its board of trustees.

News Brief: Work has resumed on a study for a proposed tunnel and other road improvements to cut the travel time to Black Hawk and Central City, Colorado.

News Brief: Smoking is still being allowed in at least one of Colorado's mountain casinos because it claims to be a cigar bar exempt from the state's smoking ban.

News Brief: As Detroit's gaming houses ease into their next phase, moving from temporary facilities into permanent homes, music is an increasingly important part of the picture.

News Brief: The Illinois State Police and gambling board admit that in addition to checking gamblers for being on the casino self-exclusion list, they also are 'randomly' checking patrons for outstanding criminal warrants and for being unregistered sex offenders.

News Brief: A Catholic priest and longtime confidant of casino owner Louis A. DeNaples was charged yesterday with perjury, accused of lying to a grand jury about his relationship with a mob boss.

News Brief: When the Pennsylvania Legislature legalized slots gambling, talk immediately turned to where the extra revenue would go.

News Brief: Governor Deval Patrick is considering including projected casino licensing revenues in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year, a risky political maneuver designed to increase pressure on the House to approve his plan for three resort casinos in the state.

News Brief: The Kansas Lottery received six applications from groups interested in locating a casino in Wyandotte County.

News Brief: Officials at Camptown Greyhound Park north of Frontenac, Kansas, have ceased construction on the facility.

News Brief: Ellis Park owner Ron Geary said he would put a casino in Owensboro, Kentucky, to move it away from competition in Indiana.

The $750 million expansion and renovation project that will double the Hard Rock Hotel's size and add 950 hotel rooms by mid-2009 is under way on the northwest corner of Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road.

A pair of Indian tribes that own two of California's largest gambling halls are among the opponents fighting the proposals that could add 17,000 slot machines to four existing Southern California casinos.

News Brief: Beulah Park and Scioto Downs are giving another go to a split schedule aimed at keeping the horse tracks afloat in the state's struggling racing industry.

Jeff Simpson looks forward to likely casino industry developments in 2008.

The investment group working to buy Hooters Hotel made a $500,000 nonrefundable, nonapplicable fee payment Monday to retain exclusive purchase rights for the property.

News Brief: The butts went out across Illinois at midnight Monday, the start of a new statewide smoking ban that had Metro East bars, and some of their patrons, ringing in the new year with grumbling and uncertainty.

News Brief: The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce board of directors has taken a position against casino gaming in Massachusetts, saying that gambling facilities could exacerbate an already severe labor shortage on the Cape.

News Brief: Epic Gaming is still hoping Kansas will consider its bid for developing Ford County's casino.