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Las Vegas attracted a record number of tourists in 2006 despite losing 581 rooms from its hotel inventory, the first such decrease since 1992.

News Brief: A House committee approved a bill today that would authorize 2,500 slot machines at each of Indiana’s racetracks and pump millions of dollars into the racing industry and the state’s general fund.

News Brief: Investigators told the Louisiana Gaming Control Board that nothing in Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.’s known background should block renewal of the L’Auberge du Lac Casino in Lake Charles.

News Brief: Anticasino activists are expected to submit more than 20,000 signatures to Philadelphia City Council today in an attempt to banish gambling halls to the fringes of the city.

News Brief: At least two developers are considering building a hotel-casino in downtown Reno, which would be allowed under zoning changes that the Reno City Council will consider today.

News Brief: Efforts to bring a $300 million casino and resort hotel to Port Huron got a lift Tuesday when one of Michigan's top lawmakers said she'll push for congressional approval of the project.

News Brief: Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation may build an Atlantic City casino in partnership with gaming giant MGM Mirage.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $106 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Friday, February 16, 2007 drawing grows to an estimated $130 million.

News Brief: Indian reservations should be able to offer more types of gambling as a means of economic development, the sponsor of a Montana bill to expand reservation gaming told a House committee Monday.

News Brief: The North Dakota House has defeated a measure that would have expanded the definition to include horse races run on a prior date.

A job fair will be held at the French Lick Resort Casino on Friday, March 2 to fill the roughly 200 positions remaining at the West Baden Springs Hotel.

News Brief: Casino opponents are suing in federal court to stop a proposed casino at the Monticello Raceway.

ews Brief: The Board of Supervisors will ask the Legislature to approve a non-binding referendum in Jackson County, Mississippi, on a proposed Choctaw-owned casino and gambling on the November ballot.

A special panel of speakers will share their expertise with vendors seeking to do business with Pennsylvania casinos at the 3rd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Racing Forum.

The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino will ring in the Chinese New Year in traditional style.

MTR Gaming Group subsidiary, Speakeasy Gaming of Las Vegas, Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement with Mandekic Companies, LLC to sell its Speedway Casino in North Las Vegas, NV for $18,175,000 in cash.

The amount of money wagered at Pennsylvania's slots casinos surpassed $1 billion over the weekend.

Poker Netcast Heads Up Challenge has crowned a winner and filming has wrapped for the television production.

American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf told Jeff Simpson last week that if online poker players are confident they can persuade Congress to pass a law that would define poker as a game of skill, they're sadly mistaken.

After allocating almost $2.5 million for programs dealing with the research, prevention and treatment of compulsive gambling in Nevada, a state advisory panel hopes to do it all over again.