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Casino executives, regulators, analysts, investors, attorneys and other professionals will meet at the third annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Racing Forum at the Whitaker Center and Harrisburg Hilton.

owerball will reach an estimated $115 million jackpot for Saturday night's draw as the grand prize was not hit Wednesday evening.

California Indian Gaming Association announces the 12th Annual Western The California Nations Indian Gaming Conference to be held Tuesday January 16th through Thursday January 18th at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California.

News Brief: State Assemblyman Jeff Van Drew continues to push for a referendum to bring sports betting to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

News Brief: The opponents of the proposed Foothill Oaks casino in California on U.S. 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe have appealed recent court decisions favoring the project.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequot tribal chairman said this morning that the tribe-owned Foxwoods Resort Casino cares about its employees.

News Brief: St. Petersburg, Florida, has received more than $152,000 in promised revenue from a bankrupt casino ship that went bust after less than a year at the city's port, city officials said Tuesday.

Regulators haven't yet studied whether new rules are needed to govern private equity funds, the multibillion-dollar investment vehicles that are now all the rage on Wall Street.

ews Brief: Hilton Hotel Corp. will break ground this month on its Buffalo Thunder Resort north of Santa Fe, N.M., the company said Tuesday.

ews Brief: Vernon Downs is losing $500,000 a month and needs help from the state if it's going to survive, one of its owners said.

The pain of a New Year's Day hangover didn't decrease the first day of 2007. But the cost of sleeping one off in a Las Vegas hotel room did.

The estimated Mega Million jackpot for the Friday, January 5, 2007 drawing grows to an estimated $102 million.

The Casino City Editorial staff announces their 2006 Gaming Stories of the Year.

The $24 million sales pavilion for the residential components of MGM Mirage's $7 billion Project CityCenter isn't your average model home community.

On Friday Steve Wynn was the subject of protest signs, cheapskate allegations and obscenities shouted by passers-by.

News Brief: The number of video gambling machines in Montana declined slightly between 2004 and June 30, 2006, but gamblers were putting more money in the machines that remained.

News Brief: More than a decade after the first casinos opened in Indiana, the state's gambling industry is expanding its markets and preparing for possible competition from other states, including Kentucky.

ews Brief: About 400 Foxwoods Resort Casino workers are estimated to have called in sick Sunday in protest of what some employees say is an erosion of worker benefits, Foxwoods Employee Group Council Chairman Steve Getchell said Monday.

7 Cedars Casino announced today that it has purchased Dungeness Golf Course.

Powerball will climb to an estimated $100 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.