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News Brief: They may not be quite as vocal as their anti-casino counterparts, but there are Hollister residents who support the proposed Miwok casino and believe it will bring jobs, entertainment and economic stability to Hollister.

News Brief: Even if Pflugerville doesn't get the go-ahead from the Texas Racing Commission to gamble on horse racing, Central Texas could still get the nod for a video lottery facility if not a full-blown casino.

News Brief: Plans to build a Las Vegas-style gambling casino on the site of the former Lorain Pellet Terminal were revealed yesterday by city officials and the chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.

Fifty-six percent of Kentuckians surveyed in a new poll are in favor of allowing slot machines at racetracks, up from 49 percent last winter.

News Brief: Foxwoods, the world largest casino, is celebrating it’s thirteenth birthday.

News Brief: An Ontario won a $3,941,711 five-dollar Wheel of Fortune progressive MegaJackpot at the Kewadin Casino in Michigan.

News Brief: Trying to revive his city's battered economy, Waukegan Mayor Richard Hyde pledged during his campaign two years ago that he would fight to bring a gambling casino to the Illinois town.

News Brief: During Grace Entertainment’s ownership of Mark Twain Casino, the casino managed to meet the initial expectations of the owners and the city of LaGrange, Missouri.

The proverbial sore thumb had nothing on Yvette Thomas early Monday.

Las Vegas tourism leaders love the 93,000 visitors and $129.7 million in nongaming spending the Men's Apparel Guild in California trade show will bring here this week.

Thomas A. Decker, Chairman of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, responds to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Feb. 12 article "Slot-Machine Distributor Is Named".

The first person Steve Wynn called when the casino developer started conceptualizing his newest resort complex was not a financial adviser, architect, or builder. It was renowned show producer and director Franco Dragone.

Nearly 100,000 people have applied to work at the $2.5 billion Wynn Las Vegas. Just 10,000 will be hired by the time of the megaresort's scheduled April 28 opening.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

The terminology "pre-Sept. 11 figures" finally can be eliminated from discussions on the health of Nevada's gaming industry.

The chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control board said today he thinks the Nevada Constitutional ban against a lottery prohibits Nevada from joining with other states to participate in a Powerball lottery.

Palace Station, along with Station Casinos Inc. sister properties Santa Fe Station and Texas Station, has gone smoke-free.

News Brief: Job hunters in economically depressed Orange County will be able to learn this week about work prospects at a planned casino near French Lick.

News Brief: The leader of an Indian tribe that runs New York's largest casino and a leading opponent of gambling in the Catskills is getting unusual inside access to a closed-door meeting of state lawmakers today.

ews Brief: A Senate Democrat and group of influential backers are urging Illinois’ Governor Blagojevich's administration to allow online lottery sales, which could generate as much as $100 million annually for the state's cash-starved public school system.