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Ads touting the debut of the World Market Center furniture mart promised this week's inaugural Las Vegas Market would be 'the start of something big.'

News Brief: The new Resorts Atlantic City casino bar and lounge, 25 Hours, offers a European vibe and wildly shaken martini classics.

To usher in the summer in style, Bally's has completed a $11.5 million Tower Room renovation of 25 guest floors, 700 guest rooms, four floors of suites and corridor and lobby areas.

Jennifer Tilly is part of a growing number of celebrities who are drawn to poker as a way of escaping from their closely watched, over-scheduled lives.

State regulators ordered Foxwoods Resort Casino to shut down an Internet promotion Friday, saying it violated Internet gambling laws and illegally expanded gambling off the Indian reservation.

Last month's massive rock slide is helping increase gambling business in this historic town, which was already benefiting from the construction of the Central City Parkway.

From Wall Street to Las Vegas, gaming operators and analysts have looked askance at Reno as the Rodney Dangerfield of the casino world for at least a decade.

In recent years, the Chinese enclave of Macau has increasingly assumed a Las Vegaslike atmosphere as Strip-inspired casinos take shape along the Pearl River Delta.

The Navajo Nation Council has approved an agreement between the tribe and the Hogback Chapter that spells out revenue sharing if a casino is ever built within the boundaries of the northwestern New Mexico chapter.

News Brief: The Big Six gaming companies should report second-quarter profits more than 50 percent higher than a year ago when they start posting financial results next week, Wall Street analysts said Wednesday.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was a participant in a 1999 case before the Supreme Court involving casino advertising.

News Brief: A regional travel index scheduled for release today will show a 2 percent increase in tourism in Eastern Connecticut for June, compared to the same time last year. The increase is primarily the result of the region's two casinos, Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun.

News Brief: The battle lines are set this week with powerful forces on the Navajo Nation Council battling President Joe Shirley Jr. over gaming.

News Brief: A federal environmental review of a proposed casino near Rohnert Park is taking a year longer than initially planned, a sign that the project is likely to be delayed, perhaps well beyond its 2007 opening date.

News Brief: Around one dozen Blue Lake Casino employees who had given advance notification that they would be leaving to work for a competitor were abruptly fired Tuesday.

News Brief: Foxwoods has been told that one of its newest games violates Connecticut law.

News Brief: Northampton County Council took a position Thursday against gambling. In a 5-3-1 vote, council said it does not believe gambling would be an appropriate part of the county's future.

A committee created to study how neighborhood casinos can better fit into Southern Nevada communities will need another 30 days before presenting a report expected to create new standards for how such projects look.

Magna Entertainment, the owners of Remington Park, have agreed to pay the Oklahoma City Zoo at least $370,000 more per year to lease the racetrack property.

Video poker's take from gamblers increased during Louisiana's last fiscal year, along with the number of truck stop mini-casinos hosting the machines.