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

News Brief: Straban township solicitor Walton Davis recommends any concerns about a slots casino in Adams County should be directed to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

Starting June 10, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art will present a new collection of nineteenth century French paintings on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

News Brief: A plan for a casino at Expo New Mexico might be permanently shelved.

Warning shareholders not to judge the long-term performance of his resort based on its opening weekend, Steve Wynn nevertheless dropped several hints at the company's annual stockholders meeting Monday to suggest that his new resort was off to a good start.

News Brief: Live dog racing could return to Waterloo Greyhound Park if a floating casino is built on the site.

News Brief: The Isle of Capri's proposed hotel and casino near Lost Island Adventurepark holds the most water with participants in the Courier's online poll.

News Brief: New York’s highest court has ruled that video lottery terminals and Indian-owned casinos are constitutional, a victory for the legislature and governor who have increasingly relied on gambling to fill budget shortfalls.

News Brief: New slot machines at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino are drawing first-time players and regulars alike, which could boost business at the gaming hall.

According to economic projections, the state of Nevada has as much as $585 million of them in surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, and lawmakers will have to wrestle with how much of that to spend or give back to residents.

For the first time since becoming a publicly traded company, the shareholders of Wynn Resorts Ltd. were able to hold their annual meeting in a building that was producing revenue toward their investment.

Venture Catalyst reports that Dubuque Greyhound Park & Casino has licensed Mariposa, VCAT's award-winning customer relationship management, marketing and business intelligence software system.

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

The 1.5-million-square-foot condominium and hotel expansion project will break ground in October, Hard Rock Hotel President Kevin Kelley said after the presentation.

In Las Vegas, bankers hardly blink at a multi-million dollar change order from a Strip casino customer, but such a request creates quite a stir in just about any other market.

The most expensive bowling center in the nation opened last month at the Sunset Station casino in Henderson.

Plans by the city's three casinos to build permanent facilities, including hotels, continue to move forward, with city council approving a key zoning change for construction.

News Brief: In a bid to increase business on typically slow Mondays and Tuesdays, Harrah's North Kansas City Casino and Hotel during May will rebate 10 percent of every tracked player's net daily losses on those two weekdays.

When Barbary Coast General Manager Ronnie Highsmith talks about working his way up from the bottom, he truly means it.

News Brief: Breeders are coming to Pennsylvania this year to foal their mares, betting in two years their colts and fillies will be first down the stretch to collect some of the $100 million in slots-inflated purses at state tracks.