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Neither driving headaches nor room rates higher than summer temperatures in the Mojave desert are expected to deter the estimated 295,000 people forecast to visit Southern Nevada this weekend.

A federal grand jury in San Diego has indicted 19 defendants on charges related to an alleged racketeering enterprise and a scheme to cheat casinos across the country out of millions of dollars.

News Brief: Changes will be requested at the site of Vicksburg's smallest but most active planned casino, the Riverwalk Casino and Hotel.

International News Brief: Antigua & Barbuda has called on the 150 members of the World Trade Organisation to file claims for compensation against the United States, the latest move in its trade dispute with the US over Internet gambling.

News Brief: The sparkling Kiowa Casino threw open its doors Wednesday to a rush of people in pursuit of filling their pockets with cash.

News Brief: Middleboro, Massachusetts, officials are ready to trump any claims by neighboring communities for compensation should a casino be located in town.

News Brief: Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill outlined a plan today for a state-regulated casino to preempt the Mashpee Wampanoags that he said could bring more money to cities and towns than the roughly $900 million in local aid raised each year by the lottery.

News Brief: Auburn Mayor Timothy Lattimore says he'd welcome the Cayuga Indian Nation to build a casino in his city, while a state official said a site somewhere in Central New York could be in the running.

News Brief: Labor's fight to organize Indian casino workers in California spilled into the presidential campaign.

News Brief: The Tigua tribe in El Paso would be able to raise money from charitable bingo games on its reservation under a bill the Texas Senate approved Wednesday.

One lucky ticket in New Mexico matched all 6 numbers Wednesday evening and walked away with the $62.8 million jackpot.

News Brief: Indiana's riverboat casinos have paid nearly $300,000 in fines over the last decade for letting in 90 underage gamblers.

Last year's acquisitions by private investors of the Four Seasons and Fairmont Hotels chains, each worth about $4 billion, weren't lost on MGM Mirage bosses.

From their safe harbor on the Internet, dealers ripped into Wynn's conciliatory remarks on the eve of the union vote.

Jeff Simpson talked to an upbeat Steve Wynn on Friday afternoon, not long after he'd joined New Frontier owner Phil Ruffin for lunch.

News Brief: Win-River wants to spend $90 million to build a destination resort where its current casino sits in Redding, California.

News Brief: The Cayuga Nation of New York plans today to announce a deal to resolve a long-standing land claim in exchange for the rights to acquire reservation lands in the Finger Lakes and develop a casino.

The West Baden Springs Hotel has reopened, marking the complete renovation of the two historic hotels at the French Lick Resort Casino destination.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to take home the jackpot, that Mega Millions jackpot grows to an estimated $34 million for the Friday, May 25, 2007 drawing.

Boyd executives have decided to partner with retail giant General Growth Properties, which will soon oversee three of the Strip's largest shopping centers.