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News Brief: A Blue Chip Casino worker accused of stealing $70,000 from Blue Chip Casino in November was recently arrested, along with an alleged accomplice.

News Brief: North Dakota House members decided Thursday they've had enough with expanding gambling in the state and killed a poker bill and a new variety of pari-mutuel betting.

Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. today announced that its Cash Express Hyperlink progressive game was recently approved by The Mississippi Gaming Commission.

With no ticket matching all six numbers in the Wednesday, February 9 drawing, the Lotto South jackpot grows to an estimated $21 million for the Saturday, February 12, 2005 drawing.

News Brief: Governor M. Jodi Rell's proposed budget contains good and bad news for the towns surrounding the state's two Indian casinos, representatives here and across the region said Wednesday.

News Brief: Icy weather cooled customer counts at the four Kansas City area casinos in January and chilled revenue at all but Ameristar Casino & Hotel Kansas City.

News Brief: The New York Senate will conduct hearings on Governor George Pataki's plan to allow five tribes to settle land claims and build casinos in the Catskills.

Argosy Gaming Co. could spend more than $150 million on a new, much larger riverboat casino and more parking as part of a Lawrenceburg expansion designed to shore up its position as Greater Cincinnati's highest-grossing casino.

News Brief: Steve Wynn will air a commercial for his Wynn Las Vegas during the Oscars.

American Casino & Entertainment Properties, the company that operates the Stratosphere and the two Arizona Charlie's properties, is taking steps to try and slow the migration of employees to larger operations.

Casinos should pay more to give Montana taxpayers a break, a lawmaker said Wednesday in touting a tax hike on video gambling machines.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $41 million.

News Brief: With a page from the playbook of Las Vegas gambling giants, Connecticut's Indian casinos are taking their act nationwide in a bid to create wagering empires stretching from coast to coast.

Las Vegas visitors spent less time on the casino floor, but budgeted more money to gamble in 2004, a year-end report by Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority analysts said.

News Brief: Monroe City Council has approved a revenue-sharing agreement with the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma for a proposed casino at Ohio 63 and Interstate 75.

News Brief: As soon as this summer, California will join 11 other states in the Mega Millions lottery.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board hired five employees at its third meeting Tuesday and announced that six of its members will each specialize in separate aspects of their operations.

State authorities are cracking down on illegal gambling, from a Super Bowl betting pool in Albuquerque to a high-stakes poker game in southern New Mexico.

News Brief: After years of escalating growth, online gambling is poised for its biggest year.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation, which has proposed operating a casino in Lynwood, is expected to ask federal authorities by late next month to designate property in the town as reservation territory.