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Fourteen local restaurants and two Las Vegas hotels have been added to the roster of AAA Four Diamond Awards, ranking the city second only to New York in number of Four Diamond restaurants.

News Brief: The Indiana Licensed Beverage Association, a tavern owners' group, is preparing for what appears to be a long-shot legislative push to legalize the slots-style gambling machines but only in bars and restaurants.

News Brief: On Wednesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the tribe can operate video poker games on its York County reservation.

News Brief:To celebrate the first round of grant awards funded by the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort, the nonprofit Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc. Board will award grants totaling $480,000 to 37 groups in the county.

News Brief: The final environmental impact study on the Cowlitz casino might not be finished this month, although that could depend on the meaning of ‘final.’

News Brief: The Seneca Nation plans to move forward this week with construction of a downtown Buffalo casino, but critics say they don't believe the casino will ever be allowed to open.

News Brief: Regulating Pennsylvania’s casino industry will cost $52.6 million in the fiscal year that starts July 1, an expense that slots operators initially expected to share 14 ways but only two casinos are now operating.

Powerball will climb to an estimated $180 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the jackpot for the Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $16 million.

Fair Grounds Race Course today announced a 10 percent increase on overnight purses beginning with the card of Thursday, January 18.

News Brief: The final road to a federal approval for the Beloit Casino Complex is still a little foggy, but it doesn't appear there will be any major road blocks standing in the proposal's way.

The National Indian Gaming Commission has issued a Notice of Violation to the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma for failure to timely submit an Agreed Upon Procedures Report.

News Brief: Slot machines may be coming to Indiana horse racing tracks.

News Brief: Behind-the-scenes planning is under way to make district around Shreveport’s Eldorado Casino more friendly to the under-21 crowd.

News Brief: Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission distributed $2.9 million of casino revenues back into the county last year, including handouts to students and schools, cities and Worth County.

News Brief: Two of Iowa's casinos were fined 20-thousand dollars Thursday for allowing an underage person to gamble and the general manager of one of those establishments says they plan to sue to get the money back.

U.S. Bank Gaming Services has signed an agreement to provide ATM processing services to the Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino near San Diego.

News Brief: Will County Illinois’s attorney's office has dropped misdemeanor trespassing charges against a high-level Cook County prosecutor for allegedly refusing at least 10 police orders to leave the casino when asked.

ews Brief: The Detroit’s three state-licensed casinos took in $1.303 billion in 2006, Michigan regulators said Friday.

ews Brief: The Cherokee Nation announces plans to expand its Catoosa gaming center into the largest in Oklahoma.