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Lisa Marie Presley couldn’t be happier with her involvement in the Sam’s Town 250 NASCAR Busch Series race in her hometown of Memphis.

News Brief: Pueblo County Commissioner Loretta Kennedy, who had supported a proposed Indian casino and hotel on Pueblo's historic Riverwalk area, said Tuesday she was shocked that two tribes voted to abandon the project.

News Brief: A New York State Appellate Court has upheld a lower court's ruling invalidating the Oneida Indian tribe's Turning Stone casino because the legislature did not approve it.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest Casino destination in the world has purchased and installed iView's iGWatchTM Facial Recognition System.

News Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians confirmed that it wants to develop a Buffalo casino in the former DL&W Terminal but it is hedging its bet by acquiring a nearby site in the city's Cobblestone neighborhood.

Two new contracts with Strip hotels helped Nevada's largest labor union increase its membership by almost 6,000 workers in the past couple of months.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the jackpot for the Friday, October 7, 2005 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $53 million.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue Gregory C. Fajt said limited slots gaming approved last year would generate $1 billion for statewide property tax cuts beginning in 2007.

News Brief: A new casino dice game invented by a Reno dealer is getting its come out roll at the Eldorado Hotel Casino.

When it comes to cruising up and down the Las Vegas Strip, public safety officials are hoping the Clark County Commission will say "no way" to the Segway.

News Brief: An increase in casinos and a decrease in revenue, as well as the questionable use of tax-exempt bonds to build hotels and golf courses, appears to have shaken up the future of the Michigan casino business.

Frankie, 27, performs with his band at Las Vegas Hilton's Shimmmer Cabaret, a gig that has been rocking the room since July.

News Brief: Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula uses 200 tablet computers to track players and save money.

Wynn Las Vegas and the Culinary Union have agreed to a unique 10-year contract that will keep wages of the property's maids, porters, food-service workers and bartenders at least as high as any other union hotel on the Strip.

News Brief: Gambling opponents on Monday abandoned their current effort to outlaw slot machines after realizing they could not gather enough signatures by today's deadline to force a 2006 referendum on the issue.

Mississippi lawmakers voted Monday to allow coastal casinos destroyed by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt on dry land rather than atop barges floating on the Gulf of Mexico.

The agreement would cover wages and benefits for the Aladdins's cocktail servers, bartenders, food servers, cooks, guest room attendants, steward and porters.

News Brief: The Forest County Potawatomi will pay the state a previously owed $43.6 million casino payment and retain authority for an expanded array of casino games, under a revised casino compact that runs for 25 years instead of forever.

The Las Vegas gaming industry could be in for a rough ride this fall if gasoline prices pass $3 a gallon in Southern California, a recent survey suggests.

News Brief: Developers who want to build a casino in Yuba County contributed $175,000 to support a casino advisory item on the Nov. 8 ballot.