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Joanne Collins recently was named chairperson of the Missouri Alliance to Curb Problem Gambling.

At first Libby Lumpkin thought that the Las Vegas Art Museum wasn't quite ready for the work of contemporary artist Michael Reafsnyder.

Restaurant king Tilman Fertitta must be feeling some indigestion about one of his first moves in charge of the Golden Nuggets in Las Vegas and Laughlin.

News Brief: The Seneca Allegany Casino took another step forward to it’s eventual completion as members of the Seneca Nation Tribal Council and representatives from the Seneca Gaming Corporation broke ground for a 220-room resort hotel.

News Brief: The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged six former casino employees with filing phony paperwork to get reimbursed for jackpots they never paid to customers.

News Brief: U.S. Rep. Brian Baird wrote a letter last week to Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton asking her agency to sponsor a public meeting in the region to clarify the Oregon casino decision.

News Brief: Potential operators in Gettysburg, the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos are expected to jockey for the rights to two other licenses to be awarded statewide by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for casinos with up to 5,000 slot machines.

News Brief: Although litigation has halted the progress of a $250 million casino in Wayland Township since June, the professionals hired to oversee its construction and initial management are hopeful that legal issues can be effectively resolved.

News Brief: The president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians is encouraged that there will be real movement in his tribe’s effort to develop a casino in Sullivan County.

News Brief: KeyBanc Capital Markets consumer gaming analyst Dennis Forst said he has been cutting his ratings for casino stocks because people aren't spending as much on gaming.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $147 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Tuesday, November 1, 2005 drawing grows to an estimated $165 million.

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

Like a spinning planet jolted by the gravity of a nearby emerging star, High Point's nearly century-old furniture market has in many ways come off its axis.

News Brief: Two casinos slated for construction in Philadelphia could generate between $668 million and $747 million in their first full year of operation and add up to 12,000 jobs, according to the final report of the Philadelphia Gaming Task Force released.

The two televised events, High Stakes Poker and Poker Superstars III, mark the return of televised gaming to the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino .

News Brief: Southland Greyhound Park are a looking to bring back customers with video gambling terminals.

News Brief: The Washington State Gambling Commission withdrew its proposed gambling agreement with the Spokane Tribe after Governor Christine Gregoire told the commission she doesn’t like the provisions that would let the tribe build off-reservation casinos and operate as many as 7,500 slot machines.

News Brief: A former surveillance supervisor at Caesars Atlantic City claims that he is innocent and says the proof is in the videotape.

News Brief: Illinois House Democrats voted overwhelmingly Thursday to abolish casino gambling, a move that could end talk of gambling expansion and bolster the political fortunes of socially conservative, Downstate Democrats.

News Brief: The Park City City Council is continuing its support for a countywide vote on whether casinos should be allowed in Sedgwick County, Kansas.