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News Brief: Foxwoods Resort Casino is installing small video touch screens in 7,200 of its slot machines that will advertise the casino's services, make special offers on games or merchandise, or promote a show or spa.

Casino City Press has announced the release of the 2007 edition of the Nevada Gaming Almanac, the industry’s best single source for Nevada gaming market data and contact information.

A leading trade policy expert called for the U.S. to speedily resolve its trade agreement violation around Internet gambling with the World Trade Organization as the dispute could damage the WTO's credibility and force the U.S. to pay billions in compensation.

News brief: Middleborough, Mass., residents approved a deal to bring the state's first casino to the small town south of Boston.

Jeff Simpson on why bad news involving gambling is bad news for Las Vegas, despite all the defenses of legalized sports betting.

News Brief: Employees at Caesars Atlantic City are once more part of a union organizing drive — for the fourth time in nearly six months.

News Brief: A food and beverage manager with 17 years at Caesars has sued the casino hotel, alleging he was fired as a result of racial and gender bias.

Neon lights, faux flowers, playings cards and other memorabilia from the New Frontier were up for auction.

Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday gave the Navegante casino management group final approval to take over operations of the Sahara possibly as early as next week.

News Brief: Dog and horse owners said slot machines could revive the struggling animal racing industry in Kansas and prevent local money from flowing into Oklahoma during a rally at the dog track here Thursday afternoon.

News Brief: Sedgwick County residents this week received mailers from the anti-casino campaign, urging voters to turn down a pair of gambling referendums on Aug. 7.

The Sault Tribe has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction from the U.S District Court,to allowed the tribe to conduct gaming on the main casino floor of the new Kewadin Shores Casino in St. Ignace,Michigan.

News Brief: Governor Deval Patrick said today that he has not made up his mind on the expansion of gambling in Massachusetts and said that the state's decisions will affect the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's plans to open a $1 billion casino in Middleborough.

News Brief: For the second time in as many days, a traffic engineer opined yesterday on the Barona casino's liquor license and drunken-driving accidents.

News Brief: The Cayuga Nation rejected any further negotiations with Seneca County after a county committee voted Tuesday to reject a proposed casino land settlement.

News Brief: The Eastern Shawnee tribe will turn its attention to the federal government in its effort to bring Indian casinos to the state, but it will do so without a federal judge’s endorsement of its historic claim to Ohio land.

News Brief: The police weren’t bluffing when they busted in on a high-stakes poker scam at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

News Brief: About 100 under-21 employees at West Virginia's two Northern Panhandle racetracks faced prospects of losing their jobs later this year, through an unintended consequence of the new law allowing casino-style table games.

News Brief: It will be take four to six months before the West Virginia Lottery Commission will be ready to regulate table games at the state’s two Northern Panhandle racetracks, Lottery Director John Musgrave said Wednesday.

Backers of a proposed sports arena in downtown Las Vegas overcame a potential deal-killer Wednesday when a state review panel upheld a plan to allow casinos as part of the project.