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News Brief: Clevelanders want public officials to take the gamble and bring casinos to the city, a poll by The Plain Dealer shows.

News Brief: World Poker Tour championship has put Atlantic City back onto the nation’s television screens after the city lost the Miss America Pageant.

News Brief: The first of several job fairs in Erie and Niagara counties intended to hire 1,000 workers for the new Seneca Niagara Casino Hotel in Niagara Falls will be held.

The correlation between pathological gambling and major depression in middle-aged men appears to be heavily influenced by overlapping genetic factors, according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Washington University’s School of Medicine.

News Brief: There won't be a groundbreaking this fall as hoped for a new casino and resort complex the Quechan Tribe intends to develop.

News Brief: The Kentucky Equine Education Project, or KEEP, recently rolled out its call for the Legislature to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot. If approved, the state's eight race tracks could open casinos.

News Brief: Hurricane Katrina wiped out the University of Southern Mississippi's campus in Long Beach and wrecked much of the state's casino industry, but educators say that hasn't derailed their plans to offer gaming management courses this semester.

News Brief: A group from Contra Costa County has stepped up to make an offer to buy the 58-year-old bankrupt Garden City Casino's card club.

Mississippi business groups have formed an alliance to ask the State Legislature to allow reconstruction adjacent to the waters edge.

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

Agency-of-Record hawkeye | FFWD of Dallas, Texas, and client Hollywood Casino of Tunica, Missisippi, were big winners at the Fifth Annual American Gaming Association Communications Awards show.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $15 million jackpot, so the jackpot grows to an estimated $23 million for the Tuesday, September 27, 2005 drawing.

The joke was on the comedians when Phil "Unabomber" Laak showcased his poker skills in the finale of Poker Royale: Comedians Vs. Pros and took home the final pot of $50,000.

Boyd Gaming Corporation has established separate employee assistance hotlines for both of its Louisiana properties.

Dominator: The Golden Touch Craps dice control crew is very happy today because one of our assistant instructors, known as the Randman, who will be teaching with us in November in Tunica has just won the Hilton $100,000 tournament in Las Vegas.

News Brief: A 1999 law that required state casino regulators to relocate Emerald Casino's dormant gaming license from the Mississippi River to a location of Emerald's choosing is not ‘special legislation’ that would require the law to be struck down, Illinois’ high court ruled.

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. report the appointment of Jose Oakley as vice president and general manager of the company's Isle of Capri-Lula, Mississippi.

News Brief: Penn National Gaming Inc.'s efforts to open a slots facility ran into a problem, after members of the Maine Gambling Control Board found themselves unable to issue one of Penn's slot machine distributors the permanent license it was seeking.

News Brief: Leaders representing six of the seven reservations announce the creation of the Montana Tribal Gaming Association, an organization intent on strengthening Montana tribes' gambling opportunities.

News Brief: Indiana’s Legions say that the crackdown on illegal gambling is hurting charities.