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News Brief: Sliding a Paradise Rewards membership card into a slot machine may be the key to an at-least $25,000 prize for visitors to Agua Caliente and Spa Resort casinos

New Brief: A union drive at Atlantic City casinos is starting to sound more like a nasty political campaign, with each side accusing the other of using intimidation tactics and dirty tricks.

News Brief: Illinois gambling regulators plan no decision today on a Kentucky company's request to buy the Casino Queen in East St. Louis.

News Brief: Roberta Lockwood, the president of the Sullivan County Visitors Association, is ready to roll up her shirtsleeves and get to work promoting the county and the Catskills to the casino crowd.

News Brief: Just because NY Governor Eliot Spitzer and the St. Regis Mohawks reached a deal on opening the first casino in the Catskill Mountain region doesn't mean it's going to happen.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the $150 million jackpot, so the jackpot for the Friday, February 23 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $177 million.

Magna Entertainment Corp. has filed a shelf registration statement with the United States SEC and a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus in each of the Provinces of Canada.

Fair Grounds Race Course cancelled the final four races of its Mardi Gras Day card Tuesday after a fire broke out in the men's restroom on the east end of the second floor of the grandstand.

Brick and mortar casinos have seen Internet gaming explode in the last decade, and there are several that are looking at the Internet as a way to expand their brand.

News Brief: Three bills that would have expanded access to the lottery scholarship were tabled in the New Mexico Senate Education Committee on Monday.

News Brief: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear supports bringing casino gambling to Kentucky to help fund pre-school classes and a college scholarship program.

News Brief: A bill passed by a House committee Monday seeks to make clear that casinos will still be charged only 3.5 percent on construction materials, the same as other projects, now that some of them are moving onshore.

News Brief: State senators are expected to take up a bill to legalize table games at West Virginia’s four racetracks this week, and industry lobbyists hope they will scale back what would be the nation’s highest tax rate for casino gambling.

News Brief: A proposal to restrict development of new Indian casinos on off- reservation sites has exposed deep divisions among Indian tribes across the country.

News Brief: Some Oglala Sioux Tribe member say that more slots are needed in order to proceed with an ambitious plan to turn the Prairie Winds Casino into a destination resort.

Governor Edward G. Rendell will kick off the 3rd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Racing Forum with a Keynote Address on March 13 at the Whitaker Center.

Specialty chocolatier Images in Chocolate today announced the first custom imprinted chocolate poker chip available in the U.S. marketplace.

Thousands were stuck in a line stretching out the door from Southwest Airlines ticket counters in Terminal One, down the road and beyond the McCarran International Terminal.

Casino operators believe they will have no problem filling hotel rooms with guests, but finding enough employees may not be as easy.

Ron Lurie went from being the mayor of Las Vegas to the mayor of Arizona Charlie's.