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The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has purchased four, year-old German Shepherd guard dogs.

News Brief: Stockton's California Valley Miwok Tribe will have to shell out cash for an expansion to the local hospital's emergency room, road improvements and services for gambling addicts before it can get an approval from Los Banos and Merced County to build a Westside casino.

News Brief: A three-day conference on problem gambling will get under way Wednesday in Kansas City.

News Brief: Pittsburgh's slots parlor should be ‘bold, contemporary, innovative’ and perhaps environmentally friendly, Anne Swager, co-chair of the Pittsburgh Citizen's Gaming Advisory Panel, said Monday.

News Brief: The Sparks City Council refused Monday to expand the ban on neighborhood casinos to any gaming projects.

News Brief: The son of the federal judge who presided over the Oneidas' lawsuit against New York state won a $45,000 slot jackpot at the Oneida’s Turning Stone Casino.

The extra land will give the company more room to develop a hotel-casino adjacent to a planned open-air retail complex.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. has signed an agreement with Imperial Palace, LLC, to acquire the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

John Grochowski: Improbable things happen in casinos every day, just because there are so many trials.

Employment in Las Vegas-area hotels and casinos grew by a healthy 6.2 percent in July compared to a year ago but the Reno-Sparks area suffered a decline in gaming jobs.

American Indian tribes planning to build a hotel-casino in Colorado are focusing on Pueblo after being stalled in a bid to build one near Denver International Airport.

The Small Town Poker Tour, chooses poker powerhouse The Division, to oversee all aspects of the tour.

News Brief: The two original builders of the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa have gotten the assignment to construct the two-phased expansion of the sprawling complex in this city’s Marina District.

Local government officials and Alexander Valley residents are opposing an Indian tribe's proposal to expand their River Rock Casino.

Net revenue from casinos may reach 15 percent over what Chickasaw Nation officials projected the tribe would clear in the next fiscal year.

News Brief: John San Cartier has chosen to take a lump sum payment for his $93.4 million Powerball jackpot win.

News Brief: Colorado casinos pumped another record number of tax dollars into the state's coffers in fiscal 2005, but the increase was the lowest since the state legalized gambling.

News Brief: Before the legislature took a break Aug. 13, it was thought that lottery supporters only needed one more vote to win a key vote in the North Carolina Senate. As legislators return for what could be their final week, it's unknown whether they've found it.

Something new is happening to poker players. It's called High Society: it's hip, fresh and arrives with “plenty aloha”.

News Brief: Governor George Pataki has signed the Casino Equity Bill, which raises Cattaraugus County and the city of Salamanca’s share of slot machine revenue from the Seneca Allegany Casino.