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So what, exactly, are the boundaries when it comes to exhibiting at a Las Vegas trade show?

News Brief: A company that has patented a way to make casino-style gambling available via satellite is courting Indiana and its riverboats as the hosts of its games, promising millions of dollars in state revenue.

International News Brief: Glenn Schaeffer is the sugar daddy of New Zealand literature. He makes millions in Las Vegas and sends chunks of money south.

News Brief: The World Poker Tour Boot Camp and Foxwoods welcomes students for a two-day intensive course in tournament-style, No Limit Hold 'Em.

News Brief: Commerce Casino filed a lawsuit Friday alleging the Indian gaming compact approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on July 1 is constitutionally invalid.

News Brief: Proponents of the Ho-Chunk Sports and Expo Center that the money the Ho-Chunk Nation already has pumped into the former Lynwood Soccer Complex, shows the tribe is in Lynwood for the long haul.

Fed up with exhibitor-hired models who way too often dressed way too down, the Diamond Bar, Calif.-based trade group has drawn the line on excessive skin at its Las Vegas convention.

News Brief: The Cabazon Band of Mission Indians is about six months behind in paying its bills and its Fantasy Springs Resort Casino is taking a full 90 days to pay its vendors, according to casino officials.

News Brief: To the delight of Louisiana casino operators, it'll be 2007 before Texas legislators again consider legalizing casinos again.

The term "broken record" has become, well, a broken record when used to describe recent milestones in local tourism.

News Brief: Despite formidable legal and economic hurdles, the Potawatomi tribe is looking at the proposed PabstCity development and land north of the Bradley Center as possible new locations for an expanded casino.

Passenger traffic at McCarran International continued to climb in April when the Las Vegas airport hosted more than 3.7 million arriving and departing passengers, up 3.8 percent from a year ago.

News Brief: The World Series of Poker tournament will hold all but the final two days of the championship event in a new 60,000-square foot convention center at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, just off the Strip on Flamingo Avenue.

The spread of gaming across the country has slowed recently to a crawl, the victim of greedy local officials in wannabe gambling towns and the boom in Las Vegas, industry insiders and experts said Thursday.

News Brief: The off-reservation casino agreement Governor Ted Kulongoski reached last month with the the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, has quickly become a major controversy in Oregon because of its precedent-setting potential.

News Brief: While casinos might previously have been known more for bargain buffets than for fine dining, L'Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino is gambling that gamers will want more variety in their dining experiences.

One lucky player in Idaho matched all 6 numbers Saturday and walked away with the $220.3 million jackpot.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot. That means the jackpot for the Tuesday, May 31, 2005 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $92 million.

News Brief: Several founders of the Hooters restaurant chain are betting that beautiful women in tank tops and tight-fitting shorts attract affluent gamblers to a Las Vegas casino.

Cleveland Police Athletic League and Easter Seals of Northeast Ohio are among charities to host and benefit from the Nautica Charity Poker Festivals.