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Bally Technologies, Inc. has signed a contract with Lincoln Park, a subsidiary of BLB Investors to provide an advanced suite of Bally Power Bonusing products and iVIEW touch-screen displays for all of the VLTs planned for the Lincoln Park racino.

Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. reports that Tioga Downs has received its provisional licenses and will begin racing in mid-June.

MSPokerChallenge.com has planned a World Championship Poker Event for MySpace members to take place July 29th, 2006.

News Brief: Designs by developers of five different proposed casinos here received criticism by a panel of architects and urban planners during “Slots and the City: A Public Design Forum.”

News Brief: The township of Bensalem is prepping for the 4.4 million customers expected to gamble each year on Philadelphia Park's 3,000 new slot machines.

News Brief: The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, traditionally known as the state's major crime-fighting force, is increasingly becoming a casino enforcement agency, with more agents working on gambling than on general crime cases.

News Brief: A developer who said he has lost at least $500,000 over the years at the Caesars Indiana casino has gone to court to prevent the riverboat from getting even more of his money.

News Brief: A U.S. soldier and his girlfriend found a winning lottery ticket on the ground at a convenience store Monday and turned it in to police.

News Brief: Columbia Sussex Corp., a Kentucky company that is buying Aztar Corp. abandoned a plan to buy a riverboat casino in Missouri because company officials feared they would fail a background check.

News Brief: Wild Rose Casino and Resort opened its doors for the first time Sunday to friends and family of the owners and their employees.

After a two-month, multibillion-dollar bidding war that focused all eyes on the south end of the Strip, attention has now reversed field 180 degrees north.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $38 million.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to take home the jackpot, that jackpot grows to an estimated $36 million for the Tuesday, May 30, 2006 drawing.

Like the planes that fly out of McCarran International Airport, passenger counts at McCarran continue to head sky-high.

College Poker Championship top finalists not only walked away with a more secure college future, but they also enriched the lives of the less fortunate by donating $1,000 each to the charity of their choice.

News Brief: Monkey Bet purchases land to develop online casino establishment

News Brief: The Atlantis Casino Resort wants to build a sky bridge over Peckham Lane to pipe guests to and from the Reno-Sparks Convention Center as part of a $50 million expansion.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

News Brief: The tribal leaders and the management of Pechanga Resort & Casino have committed to making a yearly donation of $50,000 to each of the high schools in the Temecula Valley.

To travel or not to travel, that's the question facing millions of Americans as they contemplate Memorial Day holidays to Las Vegas and elsewhere this weekend.