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News Brief: Seven taverns accused of being fronts for John Neal's video gambling racket have reopened and six more will reopen soon, Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said Monday.

News Brief: Insiders say that Steve Wynn wants to build a casino on the Atlantic City boardwalk, and his preferred site includes 12 acres where the Trump Plaza sits.

ews Brief: The Pennsylvania State Senate voted unanimously last night to remove controversial features of the 2004 law that legalized casino gaming in Pennsylvania, with a vote on the amendment due today in the House of Representatives.

News Brief: The prize is a $1 million jackpot in a winner-takes-all slots tournament at Resorts Atlantic City and its sister property, the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort.

News Brief: Owners of the Iowa’s TouchPlay lottery machines vowed earlier this year to make the slot-machine-like gambling game an issue in the Nov. 7 election, and they've delivered on that pledge with a vengeance.

News Brief: After the first month of operation, Riverside Casino and Golf Resort officials report revenues are at the level they should be and they don't foresee a downturn in the future.

News Brief: The Rhode Island Minority-Leadership/Legislative Caucus has publicly endorsed passage of Ballot Question 1, a referendum on the proposed Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick, and urged minority communities in the state to do likewise.

News Brief: Jackson County Supervisor Tim Broussard said the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce should not take a stance on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians casino issue.

he Cache Creek Casino will get rid of the bingo parlor and events hall at the end of the month to make room for hundreds more slot machines and poker tables.

The Small Town Poker Tour will be one of the participating sponsors of "Vince Neil's Off The Strip Poker Tournament" benefiting the T. J. Martell Foundation.

The Snoqualmie Entertainment Authority has completed the private placement of a new $85,510,000 senior secured term loan.

The New Jersey Department of Treasury that it has withdrawn its notice of intent to negotiate a new Gaming Systems and Support Services contract with GTECH.

News Brief: Norton Healthcare Inc. will be the first presenting sponsor of Churchill Downs' Clark Handicap, a Grade I race that has been run since the track opened in 1875.

Crispin Leyser warned everyone as they sat down at the poker table that he wasn't going to be afraid to slap some wrists. He wasn't kidding.

Las Vegas developers have been there and done that with shortages of steel and concrete. But glass?

It's no surprise that slot bars and convenience store owners are emptying their tills in an effort to defeat Question 5 and pass Question 4 on the Nov. 7 ballot.

The least experienced player at the Festa Al Lago Main Event final table became the latest youngster to make the World Poker Tour his coming out party.

Neither of two competing measures on next month's ballot to restrict smoking in Nevada dares to prohibit smoking in casinos.

International News Brief: The British businessman who complained to Scotland Yard about gifts Denver entrepreneur Phil Anschutz gave Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has confirmed earlier reported plans to spend about $388 million to expand a gasoline pipeline to Las Vegas from California refineries.