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News Brief: Combined revenues at Indiana riverboats fell in September by nearly 1 percent from a year ago, but rose slightly over last month.

News Brief: Barry Gosin, a partner in BethWorks Now and CEO of Newmark and Company, defended the development of the Bethlehem Steel site into a casino during a community forum.

News Brief: Local government and business leaders learned additional details of the Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino planned for the rural Osage County area west of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, at a business forum.

News Brief: Marion County voters will have the chance in about 10 weeks to decide in a mail-in referendum whether to allow casino gambling that could bring in a resort hotel and casino with $75 to $100 million annual payroll to the county.

News Brief: The Reno Planning Commission voted 6-0 early Thursday to approve the Redfield Regional Center with a hotel casino as an allowed use.

News Brief: Classes begin Monday at the University College of Tulane's Edgewater Mall campus, but only a handful of students have signed up for the casino management courses.

News Brief: Standing near a billboard proclaiming ‘3,300 New Jobs,’ Romulus Mayor Alan Lambert vowed Thursday that his town will be the home of a casino and hotel opposite a proposed racetrack near I-94.

ews Brief: Slots in Pittsburgh could build an arena, destroy lives or create jobs, depending on who was speaking Wednesday night at the Pittsburgh Gaming Task Force's public forum.

News Brief: With casinos coming ashore at competing destinations on the Gulf Coast and vacationers eager to try their luck, South Florida should add gambling to its list of tourist attractions, a panel said Tuesday.

News Brief: Hallandale Beach will wage a one-city advertising campaign in Florida newspapers to draft support from voters and legislators for quick action on gambling regulations that will get slot machines up and running in Broward County.

Ten Pennsylvania Lottery tickets matched all five white balls but not the red Powerball. Each ticket is worth $853,492 cash.

‘The National Heads-Up Poker Championship’ will move to Caesars Palace starting in 2006.

Full House Resorts reports that its Battle Creek, Michigan project in conjunction with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians is proceeding on schedule.

The record breaking $340 million Powerball jackpot was won on a single ticket in Oregon.

ews Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians would abandon plans for a downtown Buffalo casino if Cheektowaga succeeds in overturning a court decision that blocks casino development outside the city, a town attorney argued Wednesday.

News Brief: Golden Gulf Casino Inc., the owner of 15½ acres on Back Bay Boulevard, is planning to ask the Mississippi Gaming Commission to declare it a legal site for gambling.

News Brief: Plans to build the Detroit region's fifth major casino will be announced today, but the city and an Upper Peninsula tribe will need Congressional approval before they could roll the dice.

News Brief: The Seminoles' negotiations with the state to allow the tribe to install slot machines at its casinos are being stalled by the legislative impasse over gambling at Broward County parimutuels.

Congress is considering two immigration bills that could have far-reaching implications for the U.S. service-worker economy and the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented workers, including tens of thousands in Las Vegas.

Airline experts are split over who the winners and losers will be when the battle between legacy airlines and low-cost carriers shakes out.