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News Brief: Casinos on both sides of the Detroit River are preparing for the Super Bowl XL.

Casino Magnate Don H. Barden will host a premier, 3-day party for Super Bowl XL, featuring a stellar line-up of rhythm and blues artists.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $156 million.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $50 million jackpot, the Mega Million jackpot for the Tuesday, January 31, 2006 drawing grows to an estimated $61 million.

The competition for the lone casino license in Pittsburgh is loaded with Las Vegas implications.

Saratoga Gaming and Raceway will celebrate its Second Anniversary of operation and to commemorate the occasion has hosted a full month of special promotions giving away over $200,000 in cash and prizes.

The idea of putting 61,000 new slot machines in Pennsylvania casinos and racetracks by the end of the decade makes gaming equipment manufacturers light up like a progressive slot machine hitting a multilevel jackpot.

Race Track Casino is getting ready for Superbowl Sunday with a week-long party created especially for people who are looking for a fun alternative to Superbowl mania.

Television and film productions pumped $102.5 million into the state's economy last year, the Nevada Film Office said Friday.

Some of the bigger names in Borgata poker history came out for the Borgata Winter Poker Open.

Harrah's Entertainment reports that Darold Londo will be named senior vice president and general manager of Harrah's Cherokee Casino & Hotel.

News Brief: Frustrated by lawmakers' refusal to act on its new gambling agreement, an Imperial County Indian tribe has filed a federal lawsuit that could establish a legal path around the Legislature for other tribes in similar situations.

News Brief: December turned chilly aboard Lake Michigan riverboats, with fewer gamblers dropping fewer dollars.

A nationwide labor dispute involving 60,000 hotel workers in major North American cities could be averted if the hotel industry were to adopt some of the policies major casino companies use, the national union chief for lodging and food service workers said.

Las Vegas casino operators are salivating to play host to scores of Asian gamblers who'll celebrate Chinese New Year at their tables.

The convention center at the Ute Mountain Casino, Hotel and Resort was filled with the nervous murmur of gamblers, stacks of red, green and blue chips, professional blackjack players and TV cameras Saturday for the last of the casino’s three World Series of Blackjack 2006 satellite tournaments.

As in previous tournaments of the Borgata Winter Poker Open, the turnout for Event Five, the $1,000 buy-in, was better than expected, 362 players graced the felt and raised a prize pool of $362,000.

News Brief: Washington’s legal gambling age could change from 18 to 21 if House Bill 2872 passes.

Ameristar Casinos showed investors Wednesday how it benefited by operating in hurricane-ravaged Mississippi.

Nevada's economic boom continued in November as businesses reported their sales increased by 9.9 percent compared with November 2004, the Department of Taxation reported Wednesday.