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Cirque du Soleil, which produces four shows in Vegas, has six former Olympians in its productions.

News Brief: Kansas Senate leaders are close to proposing a gambling plan that would call for destination casinos in Kansas City, Kan., and southeast Kansas.

News Brief: Millions of dollars have washed over San Pablo’s City Hall since the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians launched the electronic bingo games and began drawing crowds to what was a sleepy card room.

News Brief: Donald Trump wants to make a deal with Johnston, R.I., an unassuming highway-side town perhaps best known as home of the state's biggest garbage landfill.

News Brief: Mayor Thomas McDermott is proposing using casino funds to finance college tuition for any student graduating from a Hammond school, provided they reside in the city in property owned by parents.

News Brief: Still undecided on Aztar Corp.'s plans to build the Lehigh Valley Tropicana slots resort in Allentown, Mayor Ed Pawlowski is feeling the pressure.

Construction crews are converting the first two floors of Treasure Bay's hotel into a temporary casino and making plans to demolish the pirate ship within the next six weeks.The casino should reopen by July or August.

News Brief: A union group announced recently casino investors have agreed to use union labor for the construction of a proposed casino, a decision local opposition group No Casino Gettysburg is criticizing.

WPT Enterprises and Foxwoods Resort Casino report that Foxwoods' newly expanded poker room, set to open in late March, will bear the World Poker Tour name.

The Pier at Caesars will be hosting an Employment Fair at Caesars Palladium Ballroom to fill over 2,400 jobs.

Celine Dion, Elton John and special guest host Jerry Seinfeld came together for a one-night-only, sold-out performance at the Harrah's Entertainment Artists Rally Together Concert to raise money for hurricane-affected employees.

News Brief: Police have found no reason to fold Texas hold 'em poker games offered at three local taverns during the past few months.

News Brief: An official who has dealt with the impact of gaming in Wheeling said the addition of slots has not caused any problems in West Virginia.

News Brief: Poker players raised $1,950 for the North Platte Children's Museum Saturday at the North Platte Country Club.

News Brief: Anyone wishing to address the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board about a proposed slots parlor in the township has two weeks to register for the April 28 public input hearing.

News Brief: The California Assembly has upped the ante on charity poker by approving legislation that would allow a wide variety of nonprofits to hold fundraisers using gambling.

News Brief: In the spring, the Massachusetts Legislature will consider legalizing slot machines at Raynham Park and the state's other three racetracks in an effort to save the them.

News Brief: The Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center generated more than $110 million in taxes and fees for the state in 2004, or 58 percent of the city of Wheeling's gross terminal income.

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

International News Brief: Tiny Antigua protested on Friday new U.S. efforts to outlaw Internet gambling and complained the United States had done nothing to implement a World Trade Organization ruling against current restrictions.