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News Brief: Ottumwa casino backers waited more than eight hours Wednesday, but they don't have a much better idea of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission's plans.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $83 million.

JCM American has supplied a total currency solution to the new Wynn Las Vegas.

News Brief: Ottumwa Park will look far different in the near future. Council members on Tuesday approved two major changes in the city's biggest park, including adding a casino.

The Senate gave key approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow counties ban casino boat operations.

Federal appeals-court judges considering an Indian gambling case said Tuesday that Wyoming's gambling laws are so vague and confusing they might have to ask the state's Supreme Court for clarification.

Americans spent $28.9 billion last year in nontribal casinos across the United States, a 7 percent increase from 2003, according to an industry-funded study issued today.

News Brief: A discussion of Waterloo's three competing gaming proposals led off an Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission hearing here Thursday on a total of 10 applications for gaming licenses around the state.

News Brief: Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce is asking Niagara County representatives to the state Legislature to figure out a way to distribute revenues from the Seneca Gaming Corp.

International News Brief: Paul Maxfield returned home with the largest sum ever netted by any Briton in a poker game in the United States.

News Brief: Foxwoods Casino is opening a championship-quality public golf course, another restaurant and several shops. That comes on the heels of a private golf course.

News Brief: This year's push to repeal Missouri's $500 casino loss limit is expected to hit the General Assembly soon, and Senate Majority Leader Charlie Shields will lead the effort.

Weeks removed from its busiest month on record and with further growth projected in the months and years to come, McCarran International Airport simply can't afford to rely on the status quo.

According to a AGA study, seventy-nine percent of civic leaders and elected officials in gaming jurisdictions think casinos have had a positive impact on their communities.

The jackpot for the Friday Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated annuity value of $26 million.

GTECH Holdings has been selected as the preferred vendor to provide a video gaming monitoring system and site controllers for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections video gaming program.

Atronic's Penny Parade Wide Area Progressive awarded $61,551.58 to its second winner on April 26th at the Santa Ana Star Casino in New Mexico.

Veterans groups, churches and charitable organizations hope doubling jackpots will help bring back crowds lost to other gambling venues and a bill passed by the Senate on Monday would let them.

The sounds and rhythms of many kinds of music along with the best entertainers in the area return to the party tent this summer at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway.

Two Roxbury, N.J., police officers face gambling charges following a raid on a social club in Dover, N.J.