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Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi's $2.7 billion-a-year casino industry, especially the hard-hit Gulf Coast communities of Biloxi and Gulfport.

News Brief: The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians will break ground on its new casino/hotel/entertainment complex at 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 1.

News Brief: Garden Grove city leaders at a study session tonight will consider a budget committee's recommendation to pursue a resort and tribal casino along Harbor Boulevard.

News Brief: Hearing both supportive and opposing viewpoints from the public at its scheduled meeting, the Glenn County Board of Supervisors voted 2-3 not to support the casino proposal from the Grindstone Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians.

News Brief: Ohio's two Republican senators will push legislation that would keep Indian tribes from establishing casinos prohibited by the Ohio Constitution.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the Mega Million jackpot, the excitement continues to grow for the Friday, September 2, 2005 drawing, which will have an estimated jackpot of $131 million.

Churchill Downs Incorporated has activated a toll-free information hotline for its Louisiana employees displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Terry Lanni, Chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage, reports that Beau Rivage has sustained significant damage due to Hurricane Katrina.

Harrah’s is still unable to estimate the full extent of damage at Harrah's New Orleans, Grand Casino Biloxi and Grand Casino Gulfport, although it is apparent that the Biloxi and Gulfport properties have suffered extensive damage.

Hurricane Katrina caused damage to Churchill Downs’ Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The operators of the Southland Greyhound Park in West Memphis, Ark., and Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., have asked their city governments to call special elections for Nov. 8.

News Brief: The man dubbed ‘Alaska's Poker Guru’ pitched the Anchorage business community Monday on his efforts to legalize card rooms in the state.

News Brief: Legislation to give California's gambling commission greater discretion to conduct its business in closed session was sent to the governor yesterday after a final vote in the Senate.

When the 2005 legislative session began seven months ago, House members agreed to a bipartisan power-sharing arrangement, while Senate Democrats approved rule changes to quash Republican dissent.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequots went to U.S. District Court Monday to evict a so-called ‘cyber-squatter’ from an Internet site that attracts Web surfers looking for information about Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: A group of black, Hispanic and female investors is claiming that Emerald Casino Inc. has so badly botched its effort to sell its dormant casino license that a judge should name a third party to get the job done.

The president of Harrah's Entertainment said Monday that Rod Stewart's entourage bullied the gaming company into a regrettable, $2 million concert deal in 2000 with threats to destroy a high-profile millennium eve concert at the Rio.

News Brief: The Forest County Potawatomi tribe is proceeding with a $240 million expansion of its Milwaukee casino if the tribe receives a favorable ruling in a lawsuit pending before the state Supreme Court.

News Brief: Casino gambling was on the minds of West Virginian Republicans and opposition forces Monday when a Silent Majority Rally was held at the state capitol.

News Brief: A Denver jury agreed with federal prosecutors that the owners of SeaEscape played a crucial role in an alleged credit card scam during the 1990s.