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1-year-old Las Vegas woman made a little magic of her own today when she hit the dollar Megabucks jackpot for $12,076,530.

Thomas A. Decker, Chairman of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, will be the Keynote Speaker at the 3rd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Racing Forum.

News Brief: A Broward County investigation into the Pompano Park ceiling collapse recommends formal complaints be made against a private company hired to provide building inspections at the site.

'Relieved' was the word Morgans Hotel Group Chief Executive Officer and President Ed Scheetz used to describe the end of the company's nearly nine-month journey to take over the Hard Rock Hotel.

A subsidiary of Station Casinos has reached a settlement agreement to buy 305 acres in central California for development into an American Indian gaming and entertainment site.

The $1.8 billion Palazzo has not been the average Strip construction project.

News Brief: Two Broward tracks with slot machines are using shuttles to work around the rules that ban ATMs from the premises.

News Brief: The Valley Forge Convention Center in Philadelphia's western suburbs, an area regarded as an untapped source of gambling customers, is being eyed as the site for a small slots casino.

News Brief: Shuttered and stark, the old Sands Casino Hotel awaits a spectacular implosion that will reduce it to tons of rubble in mere seconds.

Morgans Hotel Group Co. and its equity partner, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, have completed the acquisition of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and related assets.

News Brief: Isolating smoking areas, as are now proposed for Atlantic City casinos, intensifies smoke contamination inside and out of the smoking area.

News Brief: Rhode Island residents made 1.7 million trips to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in the past 12 months, according to a report released today by the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth’s Center for Policy Analysis.

A city woman left a Atlantic City casino Saturday with the biggest jackpot of all — a newborn baby boy.

The Aladdin Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino will serve as the ultimate destination during NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $27 million for Wednesday night's drawing.

Fair Grounds Race Course today announced a purse increase of approximately 10 percent on overnight races beginning with the card of Thursday, February 8.

After suffering an initial setback in District Court, two Wynn Las Vegas dealers are preparing to ask the state's high court to review the property's new tip pooling policy.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority won a top honor and Vegas.com won three awards at the 50th annual Adrian Awards competition presented by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International.

Less than five months after confirming President Bush's nominee to oversee Indian gambling and other tribal issues, a Senate panel on Thursday confirmed the same nominee again

News Brief: The Jackson County Board of Supervisors has the legal authority to call a non-binding referendum to gauge whether residents would support a tribal-owned casino.