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News Brief: Many Illinois government leaders believe the time is ripe to exact more revenue from the state's gambling industry, but how that will happen depends on competing political and business interests.

News Brief: The Gila River Indian Community is doubling the size of its smallest casino and moving it to just south of Chandler, Arizona.

The Four Winds Casino Resort, scheduled to open in New Buffalo, Michigan in early August of this year, has begun accepting employment applications online.

News Brief: Frigid February flattened casino revenues in Kansas City and elsewhere around the state and the nation.

News Brief: An official from Philadelphia Park Casino in Bensalem is asking state gambling regulators to alter the normal background screening process for the hiring of some types of employees.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to take home the Mega Millions jackpot, that jackpot grows to an estimated $28 million for the Friday, March 16, 2007 drawing.

Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa announced today Marguerit Pittman, a Browns Mills, NJ, resident and My Borgata Rewards cardholder, won $2.4 million on a nickel Wheel of Fortune machine early Saturday morning.

Within moments, the Stardust was turned into 28,000 tons of dusty rubble early today.

The new owners of the Hard Rock Hotel unveiled plans Monday for $750 million in renovations and expansions that will double the size of the property by adding new hotel rooms and convention space to the property as well as a new, larger concert venue.

Robert Boughner, president of Echolon, said renderings and designs for Echelon would be revealed at the formal ground breaking, but he cautioned against expecting Echelon to have a theme attached to its architecture.

Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts announced it would purchase Sunterra Corp., which is headquartered in North Las Vegas, in a transaction valued at $700 million.

News Brief: The winner of half the recent record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot has still not claimed their $195 million prize.

News Brief: In another sign that he is seriously considering casino gambling as a ready source of cash for state government, Gov. Deval Patrick met separately yesterday with groups of state legislators on both sides of the issue.

ews Brief:The precipitous decline in revenue at Quad-Cities casinos continued in February, according to the latest reports from Iowa and Illinois gaming regulators.

News Brief: Gross gaming receipts rebounded at Council Bluffs casinos during February, topping January's market totals by $1.3 million, according to figures released by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.

News Brief: Town Manager John F. Healey said the public has overreacted to the board's decision last week to contact the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe about locating a casino in Middleboro, Massachusetts.

News Brief: The homes of three evicted Jamul Indian Reservation residents were demolished yesterday to make way for a casino, despite an earlier promise from a tribal official to hold off on the destruction.

ews Brief: The Colorado senate committee has approved a bill that would ban smoking in casinos to be debated the Senate floor.

LVI Services Inc. announces the implosion of Las Vegas' famed Stardust Casino and Hotel Towers.

Since acquiring the Four Queens Hotel & Casino three years ago, local businessman, Terry Caudill, has invested over $20 million in the historic downtown property.