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Calder Race Course reports average daily on-track attendance for the 2004/05 Tropical at Calder meet was 4,408, representing an 8.5-percent decrease from the previous year's average of 4,816.

Caesars Entertainment has named veteran Sullivan County real estate attorney Barbara Garigliano as a special consultant for the development of the planned $500-million Mohawk Mountain Casino Resort.

News Brief: A federal judge has delayed for a week a decision on proposed bankruptcy financing for Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. so that shareholders can review the company's finances.

News Brief: It will be lights out, as of Jan. 8, for the video display terminals in the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon.

Senate President Tom Eaton said Monday he supports legalizing video poker at New Hampshire's four racetracks to help shore up the state's finances.

The award-winning slogan "What happens here, stays here" has been one of the most effective ad campaigns in bringing American visitors to Las Vegas, yet it may leave some international tourists scratching their heads in confusion.

News Brief: In the latest twist involving a proposed casino at Monticello Raceway, a New York Cayuga tribal member who signed a deal for the gambling project is now railing against it.

Industry sources attribute overbooking primarily to hotel operators' collective desire to run as close to 100 percent occupancy as possible.

News Brief: Las Vegas continues to sparkle in the spotlight -- on screens big and small.

News Brief: Bingo was modeled after the Italian lottery, 'Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia,' which used a game card with three horizontal rows and nine vertical rows.

Secretary of Aging Nora Dowd Eisenhower today warned older Pennsylvanians to beware of an international lottery scam that adopts the name of Spain's largest lottery prize, ‘El Gordo.’

News Brief: A board that oversees Harrah's Cherokee Casino is holding nearly $45 million that should have gone to the tribe and its members, the National Indian Gaming Commission says.

American Gaming and Electronics, was awarded a Manufacturer/Distributor license by the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission.

For 2004, Archon Corporation reported net revenues of $45.7 million as compared to revenues of $46.2 million in fiscal 2003.

McCarran's latest technological upgrade could improve customer service at one of the five or so U.S. airports that handled more than 40 million annual passengers in 2004.

Progressive Gaming International Corporation reports its shares of common stock will now trade under the new ticker symbol "PGIC" on the NASDAQ National Market Quotation System.

MTR Gaming Group, Inc. reports that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a Petition for Allowance of Appeal filed by Pittsburgh Palisades, which aimed to challenge the Racing Commission's July 17, 2003 reinstatement of MTR's license to build Presque Isle Downs.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s subsidiaries, Las Vegas Sands, Inc. and Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, have called for redemption $291.14 million principal amount of their 11% Mortgage Notes due 2010.

Today Empire Resorts Inc. has received a letter agreement from the Cayuga Nation of New York stating its intention to extend its existing agreements through June 30th, 2005.

A casino boat operator will have to wait at least another year to get into Georgetown County.