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News Brief: Emerald Casino Inc. should be stripped of its long-dormant gaming license in part because of lies and excuses made by the company’s top management, the judge considering the company’s license-revocation case ruled today.

News Brief: When casino patrons heard Foxwoods Resort Casino was adding another 2 million square feet to the facility, they had one thing to say: Bring it on.

News Brief: A Ridgewood lawyer called to testify about legal advice he gave two Roxbury police officers, who set up what police allege was an illegal poker casino that operated in Dover.

News Brief: Two gambling giants came out swinging Tuesday in their battle to win the lone gambling license expected to be awarded next year to the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

One ticket sold in Anaheim, California matched all six numbers in the Tuesday drawing. That ticket is now worth an estimated annuity value of $315 million.

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has approved a $200-million financing package for the development of Greektown Casino's permanent hotel-casino resort.

Carlisle man faces charges of forgery and theft by deception in connection with a failed attempt to use a fake Powerball ticket to claim an $853,492 prize.

Four days before the start of its 134th racing season at Harrah's Louisiana Downs, Fair Grounds Race Course announced today an increase of more than $500,000 to its purse schedule.

News Brief: Randy Winegard appears poised to purchase the majority share of Catfish Bend Casino.

News Brief: The shovels are busy at MGM Grand Detroit Casino 's permanent site while a group of businessmen suggested Monday that the city's three casinos ought to build at the state fairgrounds as part of a massive entertainment area.

News Brief: Canadians are hopping onto charter buses to go to casinos across the border.

With the excitement growing in anticipation of tonight's Mega Millions drawing, forecasters today revised the estimated jackpot upward to $315 million.

News Brief: Matzel Development is planning to buy a resort complex in the Pocono Mountains and apply for a Pennsylvania state gaming license.

News Brief: If Kentuckians were to approve a constitutional amendment allowing casino gambling, Northern Kentucky's three counties could receive $11.3 million more per year in local education funds, a group called Kentucky Equine Education Project has announced.

News Brief: The first woman to break the glass ceiling in Kansas City’s casino industry has been named senior vice president and general manager at Mountain High Casino.

News Brief: Aztar Corp. is planning for a $325 million casino on a former manufacturing site here that will open initially with 3,000 slot machines, a 250-room hotel and about a dozen restaurants and lounges.

As poker popularity continues to grow, gamblers from high rollers to dice throwers get lucky at Cocoa Beach Hilton Oceanfront.

When travel club AAA named its Five-Diamond restaurants and hotels, a new gem joined the local crown jewels already on the list.

A public opinion poll commissioned by the Civil War Preservation Trust reveals that Pennsylvania voters oppose plans for a 42-acre casino complex near the historic Gettysburg Battlefield.

Soon after the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina subsided and casino operators could climb into their broken gaming barges to survey the damage, reality set in.