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News Brief: Worth County residents will be on hand Wednesday to show support for a Worth County casino during a presentation to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.

News Brief: The legality of New York's massive gambling expansion came under fire Monday at the state's top court as lawyers and judges went round and round over whether states have any power to trump federal laws on Indian gambling.

News Brief: East Chicago city officials will go to the Indiana Gaming Commission to seek approval to take control of all gambling revenues currently earmarked for local development groups.

News Brief: San Pablo officials pondered life without the slot-machine casino that they had hoped would reshape their town, while the battle over the issue shifted to Washington D.C.

A new version of ‘Hold'Em’ has been invented. It has the potential of supplanting the existing game that's being played today.

News Brief: The social cost of Governor George Pataki's plan to build five tribal casinos in the Catskills would outweigh any economic benefit, according to an exclusive poll of Capital Region residents, a majority of whom claim they aren't big on betting anyway.

Canterbury Park reports that it's proposal to develop a racino by adding new casino gaming options to its existing Racetrack and Card Club in Shakopee cleared its first hurdle late Friday in the Minnesota Legislature.

Tony Cabot, one of the gaming industry's top lawyers has joined another firm to lead that company's new gaming law practice.

The armed robbery last week of a cashier at the Bourbon Street casino marked the ninth such crime this year and the second since 2003 for the off-Strip property, Metro Police statistics show.

In the past two decades, the number of people coming to Las Vegas specifically for March Madness has skyrocketed, turning the once obscure college competition into a sports event on par with the Super Bowl.

News analysts in Los Angeles have a starkly different take on tribal gaming in California than newscasters in Las Vegas.

Late next week, Las Vegas' hottest party will occur inside a massive South Beach mansion located nearly 2,600 miles east of the Strip.

Despite a slew of post-Sept. 11 security restrictions, a prankster has again raised questions about building operators' ability to prevent the public from easily accessing the roofs of Las Vegas' many high-rise buildings.

News Brief: Investors from coast to coast are being asked to put up millions of dollars for a new Indian casino in Los Angeles County, a project the tribe involved says is bogus.

News Brief: On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission will hear a presentation for the Riverside casino project and nine other applicants hoping to be licensed.

ans are underway for a series of weekly Charity Festivals that will bring poker to the Nautica Entertainment Complex on in Cleveland, Ohio this summer.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $12 million.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the jackpot for the Tuesday, March 22, 2005 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $44 million.

Pala Casino Resort and Spa has announced its spring concert line-up at its Pala Events Center and the Palomar Starlight Theater.

Tom Cook has been named senior vice president and general manager of Harrah's North Kansas City Casino & Hotel.