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The California Attorney General’s office still haven’t resolved a seven year old conflict involving no-limit wagers at a Colma card club.

News Brief: Greektown Casino's proposal to stay in its temporary location doesn't sit well with Darlene Williamson or hundreds of other low-income residents of Parkwycke Towers Apartments, which will be bulldozed early next year to make way for a 3,500-space parking garage.

ProJo Poker and the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City will play host to 26 weekly tournaments beginning Wednesday, Sept. 21 and running through January 18, 2006.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $108 million.

Somewhere in New Jersey is a winning Mega Million ticket worth $250 million.

MGM Mirage expects to close its aging Boardwalk hotel and casino within a year to make way for Project CityCenter.

A former Venetian casino executive who figured prominently in a contest-rigging scheme at the Las Vegas resort in 2002 has been named the top executive of the Inn of the Mountain Gods casino in Mescalero, New Mexico.

A senator who has long led a charge to outlaw Internet gambling has suffered another defeat -- for now.

A 92-year-old man has accomplished the near impossible -- winning a Megabucks jackpot twice in a row when he won a $21.1 million jackpot Thursday.

News Brief: Mitt Romney is now vowing to oppose any legislation that would expand gambling in Massachusetts.

The prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group will manage the hotel anchor at the $5 billion CityCenter project on the Strip, MGM Mirage officials announced Thursday.

News Brief: Colma town officials told the state of California this week that Lucky Chances casino and its unlimited table betting is legal, and the casino being reduced to a $200 wagering limit would severely impact town coffers.

News Brief: Two-thirds of Barstow area residents support the placement of Indian-owned casinos in the area near the outlets malls, according to a phone survey commissioned by the developers of a project recently approved by the governor.

News Brief: Anti-casino forces have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a May 2005 ruling by the state's highest court upholding a state law permitting Native Americans to run casinos in New York.

News Brief: According to the program coordinator of the Environmental Management Council, tribal casinos will be exempt from federal, state and local environmental standards.

News Brief: The BethWorks Now project head answered questions concerning casino security and other issues.

Silver Slipper CEO and project developer, Paul Alanis, has organized a clothing drive to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Furthering its efforts to assist its nearly 8,000 employees impacted by Hurricane Katrina, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. reports the opening of the Harrah's Baton Rouge Employee Information Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The Greater Cleveland Partnership Board of Directors has accepted a resolution that will engage GCP leadership in further exploration of legalized casino gaming in Ohio.

The Westward Ho hotel and casino will close Nov. 17 and is in the process of being sold, a company official said Wednesday.