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News Brief: An Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission committee plans to have draft rules for governing gaming machines at horse racetracks ready by next month's meeting, officials say.

News Brief: Officials with two tribes are blasting a Kansas lawmaker who effectively killed a gaming compact.

News Brief: The race to join Iowa’s next fleet of riverboat casinos will not reach its finish line until May under a timeline released Thursday by the Racing and Gaming Commission.

IGT has announced the retirement of G. Thomas Baker, as chairman of International Game Technology effective March 1, 2005 at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

Rudy Schiffer discusses the kind of effort that goes in to the World Poker Open and the problems that accompany the WPO's growing popularity.

An organization that will attempt to unify the gaming industry and its suppliers on public policy matters is hoping to pick up members and identify issues prior to the opening of the 2005 legislative session.

News Brief: Colorado casinos saw overall revenues rise in October, when results were boosted by five full weekends in the month, state gaming officials said Wednesday.

News Brief: According to Donald Trump, the French Lick casino development is on schedule despite the expectation of bankruptcy for his casino operations.

News Brief: Poker players are flocking to poker tournaments for a good night of poker and to help raise money for charity.

News Brief: A state senator has asked the New Mexico Supreme Court to strike down a line-item veto from Gov. Bill Richardson that allows the state to use tax money to build a new casino at the Downs at Albuquerque.

News Brief: In a harshly worded letter that accuses Gov. Tim Pawlenty of ‘poisoning the water’ on negotiations between Indian tribes and the state, the head of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe on Wednesday withdrew an earlier offer to be a partner of the state on joint gambling proposals.

News Brief: Michael Scanlon replied with seven assertions of his Fifth Amendment right not to testify against himself in a hearing on allegations that he and a companion bilked Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars while representing them on casino issues.

News Brief: A West Virginia judge has upheld the legality of a referendum in which residents voted overwhelmingly to support plans to turn the former Weston Hospital into a hotel and casino.

Majesco Holdings Inc. has signed a licensing deal with the Golden Nugget hotel and casino in Las Vegas for exclusive rights to create video games under the Golden Nugget brand.

Desert Oasis apartment complex, a virtual city of 52 beige stucco buildings in Primm, , is available only to employees of Primm Valley, an MGM Mirage subsidiary that owns the Buffalo Bill's, Primm Valley Resort and Casino and Whiskey Pete's properties in Primm.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $83 million.

JAKKS Pacific, Inc.'s World Poker Tour TV Games are now available at retailers nationwide for the holiday season.

Empire Resorts, Inc. is moving forward on plans to develop to Catskills casinos with the Cayuga Nation of New York.

The Harrah's Foundation has pledged $1 million to the endowment of the Philip G. Satre Chair in Gaming Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. has entered into an agreement with FelCor Lodging Limited Partnership to purchase the Embassy Suites St.Louis-Downtown.