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News Brief: The West Virignia’s four racetracks won the first round of the table games sweepstakes Tuesday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the bill to legalize casino-style games at the tracks on a 10-7 vote.

News Brief: Yolo County officials announced the opening of the application period for the third round of funding for the mitigation of direct effects related to expansion of the Cache Creek Casino Resort, located in Brooks on Highway 16 in the Capay Valley.

News Brief: The Seminole Tribe of Florida has asked for a meeting with Governor Jeb Bush to discuss its plans to install Las Vegas-style slot machines at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood and to pitch a further expansion of gambling, including blackjack.

News Brief: When Des Moines library officials looked to boost a $2 million fund-raising effort for improvements at an east-side branch, they turned to Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino's grant program, designed to put gambling profits into community projects.

News Brief: Entrepreneur Gary Kirke’s latest venture, Wild Rose Entertainment, is poised to enter the casino business and has chosen Ottumwa, Iowa, as a key location.

News Brief: For the second time in four months, an investigation has begun into the purchase of land in Pennsylvania that could eventually become the site for a slot machine casino.

News Brief: Two days before gambling proponents are to meet privately in an attempt to agree on a strategy to create casinos in Ohio, the leader of an opposition group that twice successfully fought efforts to expand gambling vowed a three-peat this year.

News Brief: The Lorain Port Authority is holding off a vote on selling 8.5 acres of its Black River Landing to the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma while it weighs the chances of getting a percentage of the revenue from a proposed casino project.

News Brief: An attorney for Louisiana's Jena Band of Choctaws said Tuesday that Gov. Kathleen Blanco has no option but to negotiate a compact with the tribe for a new casino in central Louisiana.

The Clark County Commission awarded liquor and gaming licenses Tuesday to Steve Wynn's new Strip megaresort after the casino executive regaled commissioners with his vision for the property.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the Mega Millions jackpot grows to an estimated $53 million for the Friday, March 25, 2005 drawing.

The Washington Post featured Atlantic City, NJ on the cover of its Travel Section and branded The Quarter and Tropicana Casino and Resort with the city's highest mark and only "A+."

MGM MIRAGE and Mandalay Resort Group report that they have entered into a definitive agreement with an affiliate of Marian Ilitch to sell Mandalay's indirect 53.53% interest in the MotorCity Casino to Mrs. Ilitch's affiliate.

IA Global Inc. has received a dismissal of the Krakowski arbitration from the American Arbitration Association.

L’Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino, a $365 million Texas Hill Country-themed resort currently under construction in Southwest Louisiana, hired Skip Fullilove as executive casino host in the player development department.

News Brief: A charitable endowment that could reach $50 million to $100 million was announced Monday by the state's three wealthiest Indian communities and the Minnesota Community Foundation.

News Brief: A spat between U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat, burst into public view Monday as the two urged each other in dueling letters to take the lead in opposing an American Indian gambling establishment in central Louisiana.

News Brief: Harrah's Entertainment has increased its projections for how much money will be gambled each year at its proposed West Warwick casino.

What developers are now calling the ‘South Strip’ is gaining a status as an up-and-coming neighborhood anchored by as many as five large casinos.

News Brief: Gamblers warmed up to better weather at Southeast Indiana's riverboat casinos in February, as the three boats' turnstile counts increased by 11 percent and wagering rose 6 percent compared to January, despite having one less weekend to work with.