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News Brief: Texas Governor Rick Perry’s proposal to sell the Texas Lottery is getting mixed reviews.

News Brief: The Oregon gambling commission will vote whether to recommend a compact authorizing the Spokane Tribe of Indians as many as 4,700 slot-style machines.

Hard Rock casino investors are betting on a three-way deal with to obtain a Nevada gaming license.

News Brief: Philadelphia Park yesterday became the first casino to be cited for violation of state gambling regulations.

News Brief: New Hampshire residents made nearly a half-million separate trips to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun during the past 12 months, according to a recent study.

News Brief: Job cuts announced by the North Dakota Three Affiliated Tribes this week do not affect the operation or employees of the tribes’ 4 Bears Casino & Lodge.

News Brief: Wild Rose Entertainment has reached a deal to buy more than 28 acres to build a land-based casino in Clinton that will be surrounded by dozens of stores and restaurants.

Fantasy Springs Resort Casino selected its Agilysys Materials Management System to streamline operations, reduce costs and enhance the hotel casino's financial controls.

The Chicago Crime Commission is concerned the Illinois Gaming Board is ill-equipped to facilitate the expansion of gaming outlined in Representative Lang's proposal.

Compulsive gambling with extreme losses has been linked to a class of drugs commonly used to treat the neurological disorder restless legs syndrome.

News Brief: The House Judiciary Committee may take up the issue of table games at West Virginia racetracks as early as Feb. 8.

News Brief: A Chicago developer has agreed to sell his interest in the Casino Queen riverboat in East St. Louis to his sister, after the Illinois Gaming Board raised questions about his past ties to a known associate of organized crime.

News Brief: The Sugar Creek Board of Aldermen on Wednesday approved a funding agreement between the city and Wild Rose Entertainment, a gaming company.

ews Brief: Pocono Manor Investors plans to appeal a decision by the state Gaming Control Board that deprived it of a slot machine casino license.

News Brief; The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi officials said this week the tribe is looking to break ground this year on the proposed FireKeepers Casino in Emmett Township.

With searchlights, red carpet, celebrity impersonators, and exciting gaming play, Hollywood Casino Baton Rouge premieres tomorrow, February 9.

Lady Luck casino remains shuttered almost one year after its owners closed the property and displaced nearly 700 workers.

Harrah's Atlantic City will unveil the first phase of the property's $550 million upgrade and expansion project on February 18 when a new 620-seat contemporary buffet and a retail promenade offering seven unique shopping outlets are revealed.

New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle spent countless hours during the past two years planning and hosting poker tournament fundraisers for the Make-A-Wish Foundation before his untimely death on October 11, 2006.

News Brief: A recent Saratoga Springs City council meeting proposed to include discussion on the city's fight to keep VLT revenue.