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News Brief: arrah's Atlantic City hopes to hold onto at least the illusion of lazy, hazy days of summer for the entire year with a new indoor swimming-pool complex.

News Brief: A group that has fought plans to add table games to West Virginia's racetrack casinos said today it will ask a federal court to overturn a state law allowing four local elections on the issue.

News Brief: Pennsylvania's five new racetrack casinos could be shut down as soon as July 7 if Gov. Ed Rendell can't reach agreement with state legislators on a new $27 billion budget for 2007-08.

News Brief: The Kansas Lottery has finished creating an application form for would-be casino developers looking to manage facilities in the state's newly formed 'gaming zones.'

News Brief: Residents opposed to a casino in neighboring Middleboro, Pennsylvania, are gathering signatures in hopes that town officials will try to block the proposal.

News Brief: The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head remains interested in developing an off-Island casino, tribal council chairman Donald Widdiss said this week.

News Brief: Casino workers and labor leaders plan to rally on the steps of the State Capitol today to call attention to the pending Indian gaming deals before the California legislature.

Bill Boyd, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Boyd Gaming and Bob Boughner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boyd Gaming's Echelon Resorts, joined top company executives along with executives from its strategic partners, Morgans Hotel Group, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, AEG Live and General Growth Properties at a groundbreaking ceremony.

Morgans Hotel Group Co. and Boyd Gaming Corporation announced their development and design plans for the new Mondrian and Delano hotels at Echelon in Las Vegas.

As Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa approaches the first anniversary of the opening of its 85-table Poker Room the Summer Poker Open continues to sizzle with action.

WSOP Hold’em final tables traditionally seat nine, meaning Phil Hellmuth will need to survive one more bust out to officially own a piece of the entire WSOP Triple Crown (most bracelets, most cashes, most final table appearances).

News Brief: A woman had a winning scratch off lottery ticket stolen from her in Holiday, Florida.

There is a big blackjack tournament coming up and you still have time to enter it. THE FITZ is staging its first ULTIMATE BLACKJACK TOURNAMENT, an offspring of the minds of THE MAV and his compatriot, BIG ADOLPH. It has a $500 buy-in that includes two days of play, a comp two-nighter in the newly decorated hotel, a comp breakfast each morn and a tournament gift. There is also a pool-side welcome reception on Friday June 29 with tournament play taking place on June 30 and July 1 at 9 a.m.

News Brief: A Sacramento-area tribal casino's expansion plans will force Reno resorts to step up their games to compete for the coveted California market, local gambling industry officials said.

The talk of recruiting a National Hockey League franchise to Las Vegas couldn't have come at a better time for local tourism officials.

Operators of a televised poker venue dealt downtown Las Vegas a bad hand this week when they revealed plans to pull their stake out of the near-empty Neonopolis mall.

After a marathon negotiating session, Harrah's Entertainment early Friday became the first casino operator to reach a tentative accord on a new collective bargaining agreement with the state's largest labor union.

News Brief: n Mississippi, problem gambling has not increased since Hurricane Katrina and the number of people seeking help for gambling addiction has stayed unchanged even as more casinos open on the Coast.

News Brief: While the Northern Arapaho Tribe is on track to open its new Wind River Casino by year’s end, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe is two weeks away from wrapping up construction of a small casino site near Riverton, Wyoming.

Powerball will climb to an estimated $76 million for Wednesday's drawing as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.