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The co-creator of the Powerball lottery game has patented an international jackpot game and a new lotto game that could some day be played in the United States.

News Brief: The Radisson Resort and Casino at Fort McDowell, Arizona, is under construction and is on schedule to open Dec. 1, likely adding another tourist destination to the northeast Valley.

A controversial casino proposed for the city of Rohnert Park can proceed to the next step in state and federal negotiations without further input from local voters, a state appeals court has ruled.

News Brief: St. Louis County Executive Charlie A. Dooley asked for legislation last week that authorizes the county to enter into an agreement with four local agencies and a casino company to build a road to the proposed Lemay Casino.

News Brief: The Rhode Island House of Representatives argues that the latest legislative proposal for a Harrah's-Narragansett Indian casino fixes the constitutional flaws that killed last year's casino bill.

News Brief: A bill to halt an East Bay Indian tribe's casino plans cleared its first hurdle last week, moving out of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee to the Senate floor on a 10-3 vote.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $63 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Tuesday, July 5, 2005 drawing grows to an estimated $73 million.

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

News Brief: Proponents say a casino would create 800 full-time jobs, pump millions of dollars into the local economy and complement Gettysburg's historic battlefield, museums, shops and restaurants.

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

News Brief: Stu, or Stuey the Kid, Ungar was the swashbuckling enfant terrible of poker before it blew up into a mainstream obsession in the 1990s.

News Brief: Forest County Potawatomi tribe declared Thursday that it was withholding a $43.6 million casino payment it owes the state, with fears over potential competition for its lucrative Milwaukee casino behind the move.

n executive with the Landry's restaurant chain said his company has no plans in the works to buy property from Tamares Group, the landlord and financial backer of Barrick Gaming Corp. that recently purchased Barrick's downtown casinos.

There was little doubt that the National Association of Minority Contractors would hold its annual convention in Las Vegas this year for the first time in the group's more than 30-year history.

Construction continues on the newest Boyd Gaming Corp. project, the South Coast casino.

Station Casinos Inc. has struck a third deal to buy land in Reno, taking a gamble that the market is ripe for locals casinos of the type the company has built across Las Vegas.

News Brief: A $200 million agreement between the city of Rohnert Park and an Indian tribe to build a casino and hotel near the city can proceed without voter approval, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

News Brief: Casino gambling resurfaced late Tuesday as a potential source of education funding, but a new measure introduced in a Senate committee would bar Wichita from obtaining a casino for at least five years.

News Brief: Gambling opponents cheered a new Morton Grove law that bans off-track betting parlors, calling the measure among the first of its kind in the state.

News Brief: Ralph Reed has endorsed Governor Sonny Perdue's call for a state constitutional amendment that would prevent lottery money from being used for anything except HOPE college scholarships, pre-kindergarten classes and building up financial reserves.