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News Brief: Plans are moving forward for development of a hotel and casino complex at the former Mount Airy Lodge in Paradise Township even though it is unclear whether or when the facility will receive a slot-machine parlor license.

News Brief: Foxwoods officials will have to wait one more day to learn if they can put their PlayAway online keno game on the Internet.

News Brief: The monthly Atlantic City casino win in July topped the $500 million mark for the first time in the city's gambling history.

News Brief: A former Barstow City Council member has enough valid signatures to get his Indian gaming ballot initiative before voters, but it will probably be later than he had hoped.

News Brief: Most Sparks and Spanish Springs residents recently polled by telephone say gaming and residential neighborhoods aren’t a good mix, according to a Sparks survey released Wednesday.

Powerball paid off big for one lucky ticket Wednesday night. The winning ticket worth $93.4 million was purchased in New Mexico.

Aristocrat Technologies' Millioni$er penny progressive games netted a lucky Las Vegas man $1 million today when he won the top jackpot award at Santa Fe Station Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

News Brief: Revenue increased for two Kansas City-area casinos and decreased for two others in July compared with last year, according to statistics the Missouri Gaming Commission released Wednesday.

Tuesday was the busiest day of Macau Week, which is being observed at the Venetian, the MGM Grand, Wynn Las Vegas and Fashion Show through Sunday.

News Brief: Returning from a two-year stint in Las Vegas, Mark Juliano was getting reacquainted with the resort's casino industry during his first day on the job as the new chief operating officer of Donald Trump's gaming company.

Video slot machines would be legal in Kentucky, but local governments would be left with the decision of whether to allow them within their jurisdictions under a proposal announced Tuesday by a state lawmaker.

News Brief: Brownsville, Texas, police arrested five men, one woman and gave 11 patrons tickets in their first raid of an illegal poker den in the city’s history.

News Brief: An investigation stemming from October 2004 led to the arrest of an Indiana man who was selling illegal slot machines over eBay to people in 10 Louisiana parishes.

Company officials hoped to get the go-ahead today to reopen Harrah's Metropolis Casino, which was closed because of shallow water on the Ohio River.

The Palace Casino Resort in Biloxi, Miss., this week became the 100th casino property worldwide to install IGT's Advantage Casino System.

News Brief: Orange County residents brought old letters, souvenirs and other memorabilia to mark Tuesday's groundbreaking of the state's 11th casino.

News Brief: Admitting defeat over the Indian gambling issue, Gov. Dave Freudenthal declared Tuesday that his administration will do everything it can to ensure a positive outcome for the Wind River Indian Reservation, local communities and the state.

News Brief: Greektown Casino will ask state gaming regulators to approve a $635-million financing package next month that would include $200 million for a permanent casino, about half of what it said last year it would spend to build a glittering gambling complex near Ford Field.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the Tuesday’s Mega Million jackpot drawing. So the jackpot for the Friday, August 12, 2005 drawing soars to an estimated $51 million.

The owner of the Stratosphere casino today reported a 3 percent increase in revenue in the second quarter and a 32 percent increase in operating income in its gaming division.