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News Brief: Surrounded by roses, balloons and a cake adorned with her face, Violet Johnston rung in her 100th year playing bingo at the Swinomish Northern Lights Casino.

The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians has filed a second lawsuit in an attempt to get a reservation casino in Louisiana.

Over the governor's opposition, a Senate panel approved a bill Tuesday that would let a New Orleans cruise ship offer gambling on board.

The prospect that Harrah's Entertainment will assimilate Caesars Palace and turn it into another Harrah's casino has been keeping some loyal high rollers away, even though plans for the property so far are little more than informed speculation.

News Brief: A jury found Mark Orlando guilty second-degree murder of Bobby Calabrese, a bookie’s runner.

News Brief: US lawmakers may introduce a bill calling for broad study of online gambling if Congress again fails to pass an outright ban on internet betting.

News Brief: Governor Jeb Bush agreed Tuesday to open negotiations with the Seminole Tribe of Florida aimed at allowing them to expand their gaming offerings on their reservations.

News Brief: The Seminoles' two Hard Rock Hotel & Casinos propelled Florida into the nation's top 10 Indian gambling states last year, with the state's seven gaming centers raking in almost $1 billion in revenue, according to a new study.

News Brief: Governor Kathleen Sebelius called on the Legislature to expand gambling in Kansas to shore up future budgets.

Gaming revenues of $5.3 billion produced by California's 56 Indian casinos in 2004 equaled the gaming win reported by resorts on the Strip during the same calendar year, according to a national study of tribal-operated gaming being released today.

News Brief: The growth of gambling at Minnesota's tribal casinos is slowing, an indication of a maturing market where opportunities for expansion have been limited.

The next series of the award-winning "Vegas Stories" television commercials was presented Tuesday to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board and will be part of a $20 million advertising campaign targeting feeder markets to Las Vegas.

News Brief: Great Falls, Montana, casino and tavern supporters unveiled a set of compromises Tuesday night during a meeting of the City-County Planning Board.

News Brief: Las Vegas Sands Corp would seek to integrate Bethlehem’s historically significant Steel buildings and awe-evoking equipment into the site's design, according to President William P. Weidner.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $18 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Friday, June 17, 2005 drawing grows to an estimated $25 million.

Elton John, and Caesars Palace in Las Vegas report that the artist will extend his exclusive show "The Red Piano" at Caesars Palace through 2008.

The debut of Wynn Las Vegas and appearance of a blockbuster trade show fueled a modest increase in local visitor volume during April.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is contemplating a major renovation of its Bally's resort on the Strip that might involve imploding it and building a Horseshoe-brand hotel, the company's top executive said Monday.

Senator Majority Whip Jeffrey E. Piccola has unveiled Senate Bill 765, legislation that would close a loophole in the state's gaming law.

Harrah's Las Vegas Casino & Hotel will open Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill on June 29, 2005.