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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.

News Brief: Visitors to the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, will be able to drink as well as gamble at Wildhorse Resort and Casino starting in early 2006.

News Brief: Plans for a $100 million American Indian casino in Pueblo fell apart over the weekend when the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma overwhelmingly voted not to give up 27 million acres of historical land claims in Colorado for a 5-acre casino site in Pueblo.

GSN's Friday "Casino Night" gets fresh interstitial programming with comedian Matt Iseman giving away cash and prizes on the Las Vegas Strip starting Friday, October 7.

Hoosier Park at Anderson has announced a 10-percent increase in its overnight race purses for the track's 2005 Thoroughbred Meet.

Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casino report an update on the status of the filing of its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for its first quarter ended July 31, 2005.

News Brief: Varying concerns prompted Mississippi House members to vote differently on Friday's casino bill.

News Brief: A day after five masked robbers took $100,000 from a Freeport casino cruise ship, patrons were hopping back on board, determined not to let the incident ruin one of the summer's last warm days.

ews Brief: It soon may be possible to wrap up a game of poker or blackjack by bellying up to the bar for a drink at the Wildhorse Resort and Casino, an unprecedented shift on the dry Umatilla Indian Reservation.

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

News Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians is still days, if not weeks, from announcing its choice of the site for a Buffalo casino, but that is not preventing opponents of casino gambling from launching pre-emptive strikes.

Spike TV's launches ‘King of Vegas’, a show where players must not only master poker but a full spectrum of casino games.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $180 million.

For years Nevada's personal bankruptcy rate has been among the highest in the nation, but experts have difficulty explaining why that is.

Andre Agassi and a superstar line-up of entertainers took the stage Saturday evening at the Grand Slam for Children.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $32 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Tuesday, October 4, 2005 drawing grows to an estimated $42 million.

Steve Wynn exudes a quiet confidence about his company's chances of landing a highly sought-after license to develop a casino in Singapore.

Global Casinos, Inc. implements Aristocrat Technologies' Oasis Casino Management System in its Bull Durham Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado.