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News Brief: The Golden Nugget Casino would be the anchor business for a $400 million Biloxi Boardwalk development that would employ about 3,000 people, according to plans executives with Landry's Restaurants Inc.

Overall Indiana riverboat casino revenues dropped by 2.2 percent for the year, falling to $99.7 million from $101.9 million in October 2004.

News Brief: Governor Jeb Bush has never been a fan of gambling. But that isn't stopping the state's tax-supported tourism promotion agency from touting a casino ship as a spectacular reason to visit the Sunshine State.

Since no ticket matched all six winning numbers for the Mega Millions jackpot, the jackpot grows to an estimated $25 million for the Friday, November 25, 2005 Mega Millions drawing.

News Brief: A Belleville woman who claims she was raped at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis filed a $1 million lawsuit against the hotel and casino for failing to protect her.

News Brief: Seneca Nation representatives met face-to-face with commissioners from Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, owners of the historic DL&W Terminal, to discuss the possibility of opening a casino.

News Brief: Mike Scanlon, a top partner to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a congressman and other public officials and agreed to pay back more than $19 million he fraudulently charged Indian tribal clients.

News Brief: Golden Nugget, one of Las Vegas's most famous casinos, may put a sister property on Point Cadet.

News Brief: A Carson City casino's announcement of a $60 million expansion that could include a hotel with up to 200 rooms has city and tourism officials ecstatic.

News Brief: A group of Motown entertainers including The Four Tops and The Miracles have agreed to invest in and market an Internet gaming site that is expected to go live in February, even though the United States prohibits online gambling, an investor said.

News Brief: The Bethlehem township Board of Commissioners voted Monday night to approve a modified expenditure for a gambling questionnaire. The survey would allow planners to gauge public opinion to help formulate regulations.

A contributing factor to the overall wagering decline was the East Coast strangles outbreak, hindering transport and competition of many racehorses.

News Brief: Harrah's Joliet Casino and Hotel is making good on coupons worth $525 in cash that were accidentally mailed last week to some 11,000 regular customers.

News Brief: The band of American Indians who run Casino San Pablo claim an Alameda County food bank rejected its $3,000 contribution this week because of the stormy politics surrounding its expansion proposals.

News Brief: California tribal casinos are trying to attract even more business by targeting particular ethnic groups when marketing their casinos, starting with Asian-Americans.

News Brief: When Benjamin P. Lathrop, the next mayor of Norwich, heard details last week of the $700 million expansion at Foxwoods Resort Casino, expected to create 2,300 new jobs, one of his first reactions was: “Where are they going to live?”

News Brief: The mostly Mennonite residents of Hillsboro County, Kansas, next month will join their neighbors from across Marion County in voting on an unexpected proposal: a 300-room resort casino expected to draw gamblers from around the Midwest.

When gaming arrived here in 1992, the Caribbean-themed Isle of Capri was the region's first casino barge.

News Brief: Mayor Jane Campbell is an unabashed booster of casinos, but Mayor-elect Frank Jackson is likely to be a grudging skeptic if gambling forces ask him to join a casino campaign next year.

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