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The head of Nevada's overseas tourism initiatives has been named in a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former employee.

News Brief: Lorain City Councilwoman Anne Molnar made a motion last night to repeal an ordinance council approved March 7 allowing Mayor Craig Foltin to enter into an option agreement with the Eastern Shawnee tribe to buy lakefront property for a casino.

News Brief: The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians' dreams of opening a second casino on land they won two years ago in a settlement of a decades-old water-rights dispute has run headlong into a swelling statewide backlash against proposals to build casinos away from reservations.

News Brief: Twin Arrows near Leupp, Arizona, was passed over as a likely location for a successful casino in favor of Cameron, an hour's drive to the north.

News Brief: A potential east Carson City train depot site for the rebuilt Virginia & Truckee Railroad also could become home to the proposed Beverly Hillbillies Casino.

The Venetian's parent company is working with the Harvard University Medical School Division on Addictions to start a program that trains all employees, from senior management on down, to recognize customers and co-workers who show signs of problem gambling.

News Brief: Greektown Casino has abandoned plans to build a permanent casino at Gratiot and I-375 and instead will stay in the bustling Greektown district, where it also plans a 400-room hotel and parking structure.

Las Vegas' travel industry sizzled through the midsummer heat thanks to an unusually robust rush of incoming conventioneers.

Black Oak Casino's will host a regional qualifier for the San Francisco International Stand Up Comedy Competition.

Pechanga Resort & Casino, a AAA four-diamond property in Southern California, has deployed 200 Motion Computing tablet PCs for gaming table management, player tracking and employee training.

Coachella Valley and Tulare County won't be getting additional funds anytime soon to hire police officers, buy fire trucks and improve traffic flow and safety around Indian casinos.

An Omaha politician pleaded guilty this week to trespassing at a Council Bluffs casino after she had pledged to stay away from all Iowa casinos.

News Brief: Five men were arrested and charged with taking part in a $4 million-a-year gambling ring that ran between New Hyde Park and Costa Rica, police and prosecutors said today.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. Senior Vice President Arte Nathan says he has enjoyed the thrill of helping developer Steve Wynn open new hotels.

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

News Brief: Combined revenue at the Kansas City area's four casinos rose 3 percent, but their combined customer count fell 3 percent in August compared with last year, according to statistics the Missouri Gaming Commission released Monday.

Nevada casinos continued their winning streak in July, reporting their 12th straight month of record-setting growth and the fastest growth rate in nearly five years.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $80 million.

There was no jackpot winner in Friday's Mega Millions drawing, so Americans woke up to a jackpot that's bursting at an estimated $200 million for the Tuesday, September 13, 2005 drawing.

Barney Vinson: My buddy Russ had set me up with a possible job at the Dunes Hotel in Vegas.