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News Brief: When Hugh Allen Hawkins filed for bankruptcy last summer, he and his wife had $250 in cash left in bank accounts and $87,000 in credit card debt. After weeks of silence, he stepped forward to claimthe $113.2 million Powerball jackpot yesterday.

News Brief: Texas Motorcycle Rights Association’s charity poker run and other charity poker events have been declared illegal by Attorney General Greg Abbott.

All football season, we have been hearing about how this was the year of the favorite in NFL betting, and how badly the sports books' bottom lines were damaged as a result.

News Brief: Fresh out of college and armed with a history degree, Scottsdale resident, Greg Powers, makes his living playing online poker. He’s joined the surge in players that are joining the poker bandwagon.

News Brief: Revenues from riverboat gambling in Lawrenceburg, Ind., will reach Union, Fayette and Franklin counties under a plan approved recently by the Lawrenceburg City Council.

News Brief: A Kentucky horse-industry group leading this year's push for casino gambling at racetracks donated $66,000 during the last three months to state party caucuses and most of the state's legislators, according to campaign finance records.

San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino has licensed Mariposa, VCAT's customer relationship management, marketing and business intelligence software system.

News Brief: Tigua leaders are hoping that Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty pleas Tuesday to three federal criminal charges and his agreement to cooperate will help their struggle for a casino.

News Brief: The La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians is moving ahead with plans to build a casino south of Palomar Mountain, tribal officials said Tuesday.

News Brief: A woman who claims she suffered grievous pain and mental anguish after falling down a staircase at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis is suing for damages in excess of $50,000.

News Brief: Ratcheting up the pressure on the Illinois Gaming Board, Waukegan Mayor Richard Hyde on Tuesday testified before the five-member group, imploring them to award the state's last casino license to his town.

News Brief: The Stillaguamish Tribe plans to expand its Angel of the Winds Casino in the coming year, capitalizing on an operation that has pumped millions of dollars into the small Washington State tribe.

Less than a week after a ticket sold in California won an estimated $88 million jackpot, Mega Millions excitement is building.

Bally Gaming and Systems reports that Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City has gone live with Bally Power Winners.

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, announced today a management agreement with Boyd Gaming Corporation to operate the 400-room Shangri-La Hotel, Las Vegas.

Boyd Gaming Corporation reports that it will develop a multi-faceted, world-class resort complex on its 63-acre site on the Las Vegas Strip.

News Brief: Pechanga Casino in Temecula is set to make one of their slot club members a millionaire in the first month of 2006.

News Brief: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise board is spearheading the effort to permit sales of alcohol at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino.

Becker & Poliakoff commercial law firm reports that prominent South Florida gaming law attorney David S. Romanik has been appointed to the firm's expanding Entertainment, Sports and Gaming Law practice.

News Brief: Turfway Park wagering galloped into the new year with increases during the holiday period in 2004.