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News Brief: Wellington community leaders met with Bob Knight, developer and former Wichita mayor, and Gary Armentrout, chief development officer for Foxwoods Development Company, to discuss their vision for putting a destination casino in south central Kansas.

News Brief: The Meadows is taking steps to make room for the slot machine casino to be built at the Pennsylvania harness racing track.

Indiana Gaming Commission Executive Director Ernest Yelton says they are working on finalizing the last details of the operating agent contract for the Blue Sky Casino.

Strip clubs have long been magnets for controversy, and a series of recent issues at Las Vegas clubs have renewed the debate over the strip club industry.

Because no one correctly matched all six Powerball numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $20 million.

There was no jackpot winner in Friday's Mega Millions drawing, so Americans woke up to a jackpot that soared to an estimated $225 million for the Tuesday, November 8, 2005 drawing.

The World Poker Tour announced today the addition of a 17th Tour stop for Season IV with the inclusion of a second event at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.

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

Visitors' spending on Las Vegas goods and services, such as those sold at the Desert Passage mall at the Aladdin, above, rose by more than 5 percent between 2002 and 2003, a study released this week shows.

One day after Steve Wynn told Wall Street analysts "another major adjustment" in the work force at Wynn Las Vegas would occur next week, both he and a key resort executive stressed that employees need not worry about losing their jobs.

An apparent tornado, spawned by a line of severe weather that moved through southwestern Indiana and northwestern Kentucky early Sunday morning, has inflicted significant damage at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. will lay off more workers after reporting a third-quarter loss of nearly $14.2 million, company officials said Thursday.

News Brief: Maine's Gambling Control Board and the Maine Harness Racing Commission members are criticizing an email from the Attorney General warning them to not attend an event hosted by Penn National Gaming.

News Brief: Video gambling in bars and restaurants and slot machines at horse racing tracks will get another shot at the Indiana General Assembly in 2006.

Tim Armstrong won $250,000, the largest bad beat poker jackpot in Arizona history, at Casino Arizona.

ews Brief: Three potential casino applicants attended a meeting Thursday where the Pittsburgh Gaming Task Force outlined its expectations for a slots parlor in the city.

News Brief: A bipartisan group of Illinois senators is expressing opposition to a House bill that calls for closing Illinois’ riverboat casinos, a proposal that looks all but scuttled for the time being.

News Brief: The Oneida Indian Nation has expanded its retail offerings at Turning Stone Resort and Casino.

News Brief: The owner of the Planet Hollywood chain of theme restaurants presented Philadelphia city officials with plans for a $380 million casino along the Penn's Landing waterfront yesterday.

News Brief: If you're not a gambler or a fan of extravagant stage shows and exotic cocktails, the Mohegan Sun Casino may have found another offering to reel you in: flu shots.