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News Brief: A Florida poker tournament promotion sweeping local bars is a free, legal pastime or an unlawful gambling enterprise depending on whom you ask.

News Brief: The Michigan Gaming Control Board still hasn't received an application to transfer ownership in either MGM Grand casino or MotorCity Casino, but one is expected by week's end, the board's executive director said Monday.

News Brief: The settlement to Rick Neuheisel’s wrongful-termination suit calls for the NCAA to pay the former UW football coach $2.5 million and for the UW to pay Neuheisel $500,000 and not seek repayment of a $1.5 million loan.

News Brief: The U.S. government needs to step up its oversight of the booming Indian casino industry to prevent the kind of Mafia-style corruption that once plagued Las Vegas, U.S. Sen. John McCain said on Monday.

News Brief: A compact between Governor Ted Kulongoski and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are giving the go-ahead to a tribal casino in Cascade Locks.

News Brief: Ameristar Casino Vicksburg general manager Ray Neilsen recently joined with the company's employees to donate more than $114,000 to Methodist Rehabilitation Center.

News Brief: The winner of a $36.8 million Powerball jackpot, who kept his good fortune to himself since Jan. 8, ended the mystery Monday and came forward to claim his prize.

News Brief: In the days before today's referenda on whether to allow slot machines at racetracks and jai alai frontons in those counties, Governor Jeb Bush has laid on a full-court press to defeat the local questions.

Boomtown Casino and Hotel Reno’s $75,000 Diamond Giveaway has just awarded dazzling Hearts on Fire and other diamond jewelry in the first drawing.

Several state lawmakers and officials of towns in eastern Connecticut are backing a plan by Gov. M. Jodi Rell to provide $250,000 to the five towns surrounding Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun.

A casino on the south shore of Lake Sakakawea near here has been discussed for years. Now the project appears closer to development.

New Mexico compulsive gamblers could voluntarily have themselves excluded from casinos under legislation the Senate approved unanimously on Friday.

A bill to ban casino boats in South Carolina has been filed as the state Supreme Court debates whether to hear an appeal of a judge's ruling that local governments can't keep the boats from docking on their shores.

The Grand Casinos in Mississippi may get new names with their parent company's pending acquisition by Harrah's Entertainment.

News Brief: Easy to play and lucrative for casino owners, slot machines employ bells and whistles designed to entertain and entice.

News Brief: Governor Tim Pawlenty's plan to build a new Twin Cities casino to bolster Minnesota coffers and three American Indian bands faces an uphill struggle in the Legislature.

Tropicana Casino and Resort announced the implementation of a dress code for guests visiting The Quarter, Tropicana's new $280 million addition.

The news that a key North Dakota bill seeking to legalise online poker has been welcomed by the online gaming industry's regulatory body.

News and views from inside the industry this week.

The final hand was dealt and Kathy Liebert pulled it off for the women, winning Poker Royale: Battle Of The Sexes on GSN.