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News Brief: The Saugerties Village Board last night voted to oppose the proposed Native American casino at Winston Farm as well as any other casinos that might be proposed in all of Ulster County.

News Brief: The East Bay took center stage Monday in a brewing political debate over American Indian tribes pushing for casinos in prime gambling markets, and whether local communities should have the power to stop them.

Recent developments indicate Las Vegas' push to land the National Basketball Association's next available All-Star Weekend is anything but a slam dunk.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. introduced ‘The Harrah's Chester Challenge,’ a community initiative designed to support the acquisition of jobs skills and training that will enable Chester residents to fully benefit from the new jobs that will be created as a result of Pennsylvania's gaming legislation.

It's midnight on Tuesday and every last blackjack, roulette and craps table at the Borgata is bustling.

The state Gaming Control Board on Wednesday will consider prohibiting wagering on the National Basketball Association All-Star Game in 2007 if the contest is played in Las Vegas.

Louisiana's attorney general expects the Jena Band of Choctaws to follow up their state court lawsuit against Louisiana with one in federal court.

News Brief: The Internet's reach into virtually every corner of modern life has helped make account wagering the fastest-growing segment of thoroughbred racing. But the future of online pari-mutuel wagering is far from a sure bet.

News Brief: Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Cogbill wants $700,000 to increase patrols in northern Sonoma County, citing increased calls for service to River Rock Casino, the county's first Indian gaming hall.

News Brief: Merced, California, could become a gateway to gambling with two plans to bring American Indian casinos to cities just south and west of the city.

News Brief: Minutes after the Maine Senate gave final approval to a Washington County racino Friday, leaders of the state's American Indian tribes requested a meeting with Gov. John Baldacci.

News Brief: In ways both obvious and subtle, there has been an evolving relationship between auto racing and the gaming industry that both sides see as making economic and marketing sense.

News Brief: Now that lawmakers have adjourned their biennial session without expanding gambling options, the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino is anticipating at least two more years as the only Texas casino with state and federal approval.

News Brief: A Duluth-based nonprofit that provides programs to help compulsive gamblers did not adequately account for some of its state and city funding and some of its work was shoddy, a legislative audit released Friday contends.

International News Brief: Partygaming may be forced to pull its £5.5 billion London float as fears grow about the legality of internet gambling in the U.S.

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professor Hal Rothman said a class he took that melded literature and history inspired his career choice.

News Brief: A shake up due to the N9NE Group pulling out of the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa earlier this week is starting to settle down.

Flux in the gaming industry is generating a wave of new investment and new competitors, even if the two megamergers now coming together leave the casino business less competitive, executives and analysts argue.

News Brief: Casino Rock Island officials aren't resting on the laurels of their recent legislative victory.

News Brief: A proposed Manzanita tribal casino in Calexico, California, has many supporters.