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A federal grand jury has indicted 15 people for allegedly running an illegal lottery in stores throughout Anchorage.

News Brief: October revenues, which were just under $93.5 million, dropped 4.4 percent from the same period a year ago. The reduction follows a 7.8 decrease in September.

The owners of a convenience store and two employees have pleaded guilty to scheming to trick a customer out of his $100,000 Powerball ticket.

The Tropicana Casino and Resort has unveiled its $280 million multi- faceted expansion project, The Quarter at Tropicana.

The Tropicana Casino and Resort has unveiled its $280 million multi- faceted expansion project, The Quarter at Tropicana.

Webster's New World Dictionary defines the word cosmopolitan to mean someone or something that is "at home in all countries or places."

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

ews Brief: A new Trump casino is anticipated to open in French Lick, Indiana, in January of 2006, despite a bankruptcy filing.

VirtGame reported a net loss applicable to common stockholders for Q3 of $636,689 or $0.02 per share, which compares to a net loss of $307,093 or $0.01 per share in the previous quarter and a loss of $294,227 or $0.01 for the third quarter of 2003.

VirtGame Corp. reports that Club Cal-Neva has contracted to install VirtGame's Sports Bet Express in all Cal-Neva Race and Sports Book locations.

MGM Mirage has entered into a Fourth Amended and Restated Loan Agreement which will provide for a $7.0 billion senior credit facility.

Scientific Games Corporation reports that the Iowa Lottery has extended the company's online lottery contract.

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

News Brief: Some Navajo council delegates are objecting to assertions by Navajo Nation officials that the tribe, not the individual chapters, would own the casinos.

News Brief: Central City celebrated the coming of a highway that will bring traffic to its casinos and bypass neighboring Black Hawk.

The partnership that is planning a condominium and resort on a U-shaped 8.5-acre parcel near the Jockey Club has announced new details, including the name of the project.

Caesars Entertainment Inc. has agreed to sell off a second casino to private hotel chain Columbia Sussex Corp. in advance of its acquisition by Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

News Brief: If the former owner of the Treasure Chest Casino has to pay Louisiana millions of dollars he made in a riverboat licensing scheme involving former Gov. Edwin Edwards, he wants the U.S. government to foot the bill.

Jimmy Pine is an animated, stocky former singer with a vague resemblance to Tom Jones and a propensity to gamble.

News Brief: Southeast Indiana's three riverboat casinos generated $62.3 million in total revenue in October, reversing a two-month revenue slide, according to figures released today by the Indiana Gaming Commission.