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Caesars Entertainment has it received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission in connection with the planned sale of the Caesars Tahoe casino resort to an affiliate of Columbia Sussex Corporation.

Barney Vinson: I’d written my dad to tell him where I was, but he never wrote back, and he’d always been good about staying in touch.

World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker is now launching Moneymaker Gaming.

News Brief: Governor George Pataki has introduced a bill to end most American Indian land claims against the state and allow five tribal casinos in the Catskills.

News Brief: For the second time this year, legislation that would permit casino gambling has been filed in the Kentucky General Assembly.

News Brief: Highly paid political consultants and lobbyists are co-ordinating the slot debate in Florida.

Jack Binion, the former manager of Binion's Horseshoe who sold his high-rolling casino empire to Harrah's Entertainment Inc. last year, is considering re-entering the casino business on the Las Vegas Strip or abroad, he said.

News Brief: The Mississippi House barely defeated a bill that could have cleared the way for Mississippi casinos to have off-track horse- and dog-race betting.

A Vietnamese man was sentenced for convincing members of the Las Vegas Vietnamese community to give him money so he could finalize a deal to build a Las Vegas-style casino in Vietnam.

News Brief: An optimistic picture of state revenue led the governor and some state officials to predict that the Legislature would reject expanded gambling in Texas but it’s far from being a sure thing.

News Brief: The tribal owner of the Trump 29 Casino the new name for its gaming complex in Coachella, ending its three-year relationship with the Trump organization.

Attorneys for the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians filed notice today that it will seek to enjoin MGM Grand Detroit from selling its casino franchise.

Cirque du Soleil unveiled its latest creation, KA, to an enthusiastic audience at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Landry's Restaurants will purchase the landmark Golden Nugget Casino in downtown Las Vegas from Poster Financial Group, Inc. for $140 million in cash and the assumption of $155 million of Senior Secured Notes.

The Bicycle Casino is launching its new program, ‘Live at the Bike’, where a variety of games will be streamed from its casino floors onto its website.

The Las Vegas City Council have indefinitely postponed acting on proposed changes to an 11-year-old downtown land deal with Boyd Gaming Corp.

The NFL has tightened its defenses surrounding Sunday's broadcast of Super Bowl.

The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians has successfully met goals set by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and has completed a planned buyout of Trump Casinos' management contract months ahead of schedule.

News Brief: The soon-to-be-merged gaming giants MGM Mirage and Mandalay Resort Group says it has received about a half dozen offers for one of its two area casinos and expects to sell one before the end of the first quarter.

News Brief: Officials with the Woodlands have voiced opposition to a proposal by Texas-based partnership River Falls Gaming that would place several new gambling parlors and at least 4,000 additional slot machines in the Kansas City area.