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Following a nearly four-year interruption, travelers headed to McCarran International Airport will soon be able to resume checking baggage at off-site locations in Las Vegas' busy hotel corridor.

It's one of the last and largest undeveloped parcels within a stone's throw of the Las Vegas Strip. Its owners are ready to cash in while the real estate market is hot.

News Brief: Government leaders from Kenosha County, the city of Kenosha and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin have signed an agreement that promises an expected $521 million over 22 years for the city and county from the tribe's proposed casino at Dairyland Greyhound Park.

News Brief: Plans to expand an East Bay card room located less than 10 miles from UC Berkeley halted last week when the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians agreed not to install 2,500 slot machines at Casino San Pablo, after facing heat from state legislators.

River Rock Entertainment reports net revenues increased 24.9% to $28.5 million, from $22.8 million. Income from operations grew 42.3% to $6.8 million, compared to $4.8 million.

News Brief: Riverside Entertainment Center's temporary facility opened March 4. Harrah's Entertainment Inc. will manage the permanent $300 million complex, which is expected to open in January 2007.

News Brief: Casino gambling isn't normally regarded as a conservative financial strategy, but for Fort Mitchell-based Columbia Sussex Corp., it might be just that.

International News Brief: Macau is poised to overtake Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world before the end of the year.

News Brief: People who spoke out at an Orange County government public hearing last night on the impacts to that county by five proposed casinos in Sullivan County either were for or against them.

News Brief: A proposed Texas constitutional amendment that could bring a casino to the Permian Basin is being considered in the House Ways and Means Committee in Austin and will probably come to a House floor vote within two weeks.

tation Casinos Inc., which has so far focused all of its Nevada business in Las Vegas, has purchased 96 acres of vacant land south of Reno for possible casino development.

Gamblers played in the new poker room in the MGM Grand after its opening on Monday.

News Brief: The Casino Queen plans to start construction this summer on a larger casino with more amenities to replace its riverboat before a competitor enters the market across the river on Laclede's Landing.

News Brief: At least three dozen enterprises have expressed interest in landing one of the 14 gambling licenses to be awarded by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

More than a third of the respondents to a survey of visitors, say that they are likely to stay at the new Wynn Las Vegas, but almost 70 percent say sorry, no way.

Its future already shrouded in doubt, Las Vegas' Comdex trade show is one step closer to oblivion after its organizers recently decided to cancel this November's scheduled event for a second consecutive year.

A small committee of senators in Carson City has killed a proposal to legalize a Nevada state lottery.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $25 million.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers to win the $53 million jackpot, the jackpot for the Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $63 million.

News Brief: Smoking bans being considered in New Jersey and Colorado would hurt revenue at casinos, analysts and industry lobbyists say.