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News Brief: Orange County residents hoping a casino will turn around the area's struggling economy said they hit the jackpot today when two Indiana companies announced plans to use gambling revenue to renovate the county's two historic resort hotels.

The architect responsible for the 1,483-foot Petronas Towers in Malaysia and numerous award-winning structures throughout the United States will design the primary component of MGM Mirage's $4.7 billion Project CityCenter.

Wynn Las Vegas has signed a multi-year agreement to use the innovative products and services of Global Cash Access, Inc.

A Superseding Indictment was unsealed today charging Arthur Gianelli, eleven others and a Costa Rican corporation with racketeering and related offenses.

Faculty at the University of Iowa College of Public Health say they're opposed to a casino proposal in nearby Riverside.

News Brief: A month after being promoted as a source of pain-free money for a state with a budget deficit, plans for a government-sponsored Twin Cities casino are struggling to stay alive.

It's tough to be a sports franchise in a casino town.

Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller worked Friday to try to resurrect stalled slot machine legislation and get it approved before the 2005 session ends Monday.

Some of the attractions of this gambling mecca could be killing local residents at a higher rate than in the rest of the state.

News Brief: Not a week into its new operation, on Saturday, an Ocean Jewel casino ship shuttle boat smashed into a barrier protecting the base of the John's Pass drawbridge.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation recently closed on nearly 60 more acres in Lynwood, Illinois, moving them closer to lobbying for a casino.

News Brief: Pennsylvania’s entry into the lucrative gaming industry has prompted surrounding states to ponder the potential for lost profits.

U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Don H. Barden, Chairman and CEO, Barden Companies will provide the keynote addresses during the 12th Annual Southern Gaming Summit, May 4-5.

News Brief: The Kansas City-area's four casinos posted higher revenue in March compared with the year-ago month, according to statistics the Missouri Gaming Commission released Monday.

Antigua and Barbuda welcomed the release by the World Trade Organisation of the Final Report of its Panel on Antigua’s dispute with the United States over the provision of Internet gambling and betting services.

JCM has been granted several tribal gaming licenses, allowing the company to immediately conduct business directly with the Tribes.

Florida, the land of the hanging chad, is likely to be the exception to all rules when it comes to gaming proliferation, hospitality-industry insiders are saying.

Less than four months after the end of its busiest year on record, McCarran International Airport will soon welcome some much-needed extra space.

VirtGame Corp.has been contracted by Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel, owned and operated by MTR Gaming Group, Inc.

February's gaming win by Nevada casinos wasn't the double-digit increase from a year ago, but the $909.5 million collected from gamblers was still respectable in casino watchers' eyes.