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News Brief: The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians unveiled plans Wednesday for a massive casino/hotel/entertainment complex on a 97-acre parcel of land on Cemetery Road, south of Petoskey.

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

A North Andover convenience store owner who admitted stealing a customer's winning lottery ticket has been stripped of his license to sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets, a lottery spokeswoman said.

Oklahoma will receive less than one-third of the money it expected through tribal gaming compacts, according to newly released figures.

News Brief: Plans for new laws to regulate American Indian gambling got a hostile response from casino-operating tribes who told a Senate committee they're already amply regulated.

News Brief: Throughout the Cedar Valley, organizations are preparing for the change in state law Friday which will outlaw poker tournaments by hosting final games.

News Brief: Eleven years after Harrah’s North Kansas City Casino opened, casino shareholders added another $130 million investment to the casino, Vice President Tom Cook said to the participants of the Information Exchange, sponsored by the Clay County Economic Development Council.

News Brief: Montana casino owners paid up an audit bill in an effort to avoid having their machines confiscated, but disputed the claim that they should have to pay for their own audits.

News Brief: The shadow of the stalled West Warwick casino proposal cast a pall of uncertainty yesterday over eleventh-hour efforts to salvage a proposed Lincoln Park purchase-and-expansion deal before state lawmakers close up shop this week.

News Brief: The Illinois Gaming Board has technically renewed the license of the Emerald Casino. But the board made the four-year renewal retroactive to 1999, a move that effectively leaves the license for the controversial casino inactive.

News Brief: A Senate panel has approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's bill to force the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to scrap its plans for a casino in San Pablo and go through rigorous state and federal approvals before moving ahead with slot-machine gambling at its card club.

Powerball paid off big for one lucky ticket Wednesday night. The winning ticket worth $10 million was purchased in West Virginia.

Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casino report that net revenues for fiscal 2005 were $93.0 million, an increase of $12.1 million, or 14.9%, from $80.9 million for fiscal 2004.

A state appeals court Tuesday upheld a jury's award of nearly $400,000 to a northern Wisconsin Indian tribe from its accounting firm after turmoil in the late 1990s prompted an embezzlement probe and forced a casino to be shut down.

A specific site and other details have not been announced, but four Michigan Indian tribes said they intend to develop an off-reservation casino in this suburb 25 miles west of Detroit.

The Sparks City Council has extended a ban on unrestricted gambling projects outside the downtown area after a public outcry against a proposed casino in Spanish Springs.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $52 million jackpot, that jackpot now grows to an estimated $63 million for the Friday, July 1, 2005 drawing.

Gaming industry policies for paying Reservists serving in the war in the Middle East run the gamut from full compensation on top of active-duty pay to simply preserving their positions during extended absences, a survey of local companies shows.

Black Oak Casino is becoming a major benefit to the economic and tourism development of Tuolumne County, California.

Saratoga Gaming and Raceway has the biggest 4th of July Weekend celebration planned in the capital region.