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News Brief: Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel increased its payouts to tribal members by $18 million last year and attracted an additional 200,000 visitors, according to the company’s annual report this week.

News Brief: In 6 weeks, Cherokee County, Kansas, voters will go the polls to decide if a state-owned casino and hotel complex will be allowed in the county.

The contrast in styles between the calm European and the brash American couldn’t be anymore apparent, but regardless of their differences, European Poker Tour Champion Roland de Wolfe and 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth are in the same position – atop the leader board.

Bargain-hunting corporate raider Carl Icahn, who snapped up several Southern Nevada casinos at discount prices, is selling them and booking a handsome profit.

Philadelphia Park Casino, the first casino to open in the Philadelphia area, chalks up another first with the introduction of the state’s first electronic table games.

News Brief: The future of Fairmount Park is riding on a bill before Illinois lawmakers, says the horse track's General Manager Brian Zander.

Rags-to-riches-to-hero, Anna Wroblewski was the big story in Vegas last week after turning $300 into $330,000. Now she has a commanding lead at the WPT Championship event.

Andrew Donner didn't provide reporters much in the way of details about his plans to revive the shuttered Lady Luck and 5.5 acres of city-owned land downtown.

Casino giant MGM Mirage said Friday that it has raised the estimated cost of its CityCenter project on the Strip to because of an increase in the overall size of the development.

News Brief: A federal judge delivered another legal blow late Friday to the Seneca Nation of Indians’ plans for a gambling casino in downtown Buffalo.

News Brief: When Broward county’s new casinos began opening last fall, Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation required each operation to offer a self-exclusion program.

ews Brief: The Texas Legislature should approve a constitutional amendment that would allow legalized casino gambling in the state, according to the results of an online reader poll.

owerball will go to an estimated $57 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. reports that it has completed its due diligence relating to its acquisition of Resorts East Chicago.

The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and Empire Resorts, Inc. were granted full rights as an equal party to the federal government to assist in defense of the environmental review for the St. Regis Mohawk tribe's Monticello Raceway casino project in Sullivan County.

The biggest news over the last few years for Internet gambling has been the attempt by many governments to keep out foreign legal operators.

News Brief: A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot.

Nevada gaming regulatory veteran Randall Sayre says the Control Board isn't about to begin enforcing the state's voter-approved smoking ban, which applies to food-serving bars and other small slot machine locations such as convenience stores, groceries and gas stations.

News Brief: Officials with the Isle of Capri casino under construction in Waterloo told state regulators Thursday they were likely to open July 1 after a months-long-delay but promised a bigger and better casino than originally planned.

News Brief: Developers of The Riverwalk Casino and Hotel in Vicksburg that is planned for a 22-acre site north of Rainbow Hotel Casino told the Mississippi Gaming Commission today that construction should begin this week.