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News Brief: The Missouri Gaming Commission is investigating a blackjack player's complaint that his casino comps were canceled after pit bosses at Harrah's North Kansas City Casino and Hotel suspected him of counting cards.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. said, the company's net loss was $35.2 million for the second quarter that ended June 30.

News Brief: An Arkansas legislator's ballot proposal to legalize gambling was shot down Monday by Attorney General Mike Beebe because of a typographical error in the measure's title.

News Brief: More poker games and multistate progressive slot machine games are in the early talking stages among casino executives in Arizona.

News Brief: A Wichita legislator will ask Sedgwick County Commissioners Wednesday to let voters decide in November whether they want casinos in the county.

News Brief: The newly renamed San Pablo Lytton Casino turned on 500 electronic bingo machines Monday morning, thus becoming the Bay Area's first urban casino.

So far, visitors' first impressions suggest this city instantly emerged as a powerful player that could threaten, or overtake, long-established furniture markets.

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

Chad Kroeger, lead singer of Nickelback, will join rock greats, Gene Simmons, Dave Navarro and Jerry Cantrell at the second annual Vegas Rock Star Poker Tournament at The Palms Casino Hotel Las Vegas.

The average daily stock prices of the gaming industry's major players rose collectively during July, giving the casino sector its second straight month of increases, according to a Las Vegas index.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $70 million.

The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino has been awarded Meetings & Conventions magazine's highly coveted Gold Key 'Elite' Award and Gold Platter 'Elite' Award for 2005.

Rudi Schiffer gives the lowdown on the latest news from the resorts in Tunica, Mississippi.

John Grochowski: I had a only a couple of quibbles with the crop of games I saw.

Developers Stephen Cloobeck and Steven Molasky have formed a partnership that will specialize in developing high-rise residences on or near the Strip.

A Strip casino has paid a fine for violating gaming regulations involving money-laundering.

A federal prosecutor tried Thursday to discredit a British gambling executive's claim that he knew nothing about the role of the speaker of the Rhode Island House when he allegedly conspired to offer him a $4 million bribe.

State casino revenue for June showed a marked contrast -- up on the coast and down at gambling houses along the Mississippi River.

Former State Sen. Ray Rawson, the Nevada Gaming Commission's newest appointee, is involved with a private college in Hawaii that is being sued by a state agency for deceptive business practices.

Nevada gaming regulators Thursday approved a holding company to manage the Stratosphere and two Arizona Charlie's casinos.