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News Brief: Maine's two largest Indian tribes, hoping to boost ailing revenue streams, have submitted separate bills that would allow them to operate slot machines on or near their respective reservations.

News Brief: Emerald Downs opens for its tenth and longest season on April 15 and officials with the Auburn, Washington racetrack are optimistic that changes within the industry will result in benefits for fans and horsemen during the 101-day meeting.

A legal challenge to Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa's imposition of weight limits on cocktail servers and bartenders was sent back to state court Thursday.

Luxury condominiums being built throughout Las Vegas should help drive additional traffic to casinos, not slow it down as some critics contend, a new report said.

For the second straight month, Nevada casinos reported modest increases in the amount of money won from gamblers, posting a 3.8 percent gain over February of last year.

News Brief: The sheriffs of Burke, Caldwell and Catawba counties are banding together to crack down on illegal gambling in North Carolina.

ews Brief: The Schwarzenegger administration's bid to bolster the state gambling commission with a major staffing increase was blocked yesterday by an Assembly committee.

News Brief: Former Governor Carlson rebuked the current governor for his proposal to open a state-run casino in the Twin Cities.

News Brief: Casino gambling may be creeping closer to Portland, but Mayor Tom Potter still wants nothing to do with it.

News Brief: The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission two days of travel to license applicants has come to an end.

News Brief: Over the objections of the Fair Grounds' new owners and against the advice of the city's top attorney, the New Orleans City Council voted 7-0 Thursday to ask a court to rule on whether installing hundreds of slot machines at the Gentilly Boulevard racetrack would be legal.

Regardless who is right or wrong, the Internet can never be regulated and controlled like Kenilworth Systems Corporation's Roulabette system.

Proponents of Video Lottery Terminals are available for industry background and/or interviews.

International News Brief: Barring a miraculous late-night comeback, legislation that would authorize county referendums to legalize casino-style table gaming at the state’s four horse and dog tracks appeared to be out of luck and out of time Wednesday.

One in four Clark County residents who gamble play in convenience stores, grocery stores or gasoline stations, a study commissioned by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said.

According to a Wynn Las Vegas exec, most of the 9,500 workers the resort has hired all come from other Las Vegas strip casinos.

The World Trade Organization handed down a landmark decision on Internet gambling today that online gambling supporters say could end up forcing the United States to allow gambling sites based in Antigua and Barbuda to accept bets from U.S. gamblers.

News Brief: Senator Joseph Lieberman says that state and federal officials still have some cards to play in preventing Schaghticoke Tribal Nation from opening up a casino in Connecticut.

News Brief: The Isle of Capri's $170 million expansion at its Biloxi, Mississippi property will offer plenty of ways to party or chill.

News Brief: UNITE HERE, a union representing casino workers, is moving forward with plans to organize hotel and food/beverage employees at Caesars Entertainment properties in Mississippi, including the Grand Casinos.