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News Brief Wisconsin’s Appeal court has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up again a lawsuit from owners of a Kenosha dog track seeking to end casino gambling by American Indian tribes.

News Brief: Ron Volesky, the only announced candidate for governor in 2006, called Thursday for an end to video lottery machines in South Dakota.

Wynn Resorts Ltd.'s stock price continues to soar despite the company's Las Vegas resort being six months away from opening and there being no significant revenue sources.

News Brief: The Michigan Senate won't deal with term limits, slot machines at horse tracks or tax restructuring during the Legislature's ‘lame duck" session, Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema said Thursday.

News Brief: Their uniforms crisply pressed and nameplates polished to a high-gloss shine, members of Local 54 of Unite Here returned to work Thursday for the first time since walking off the job Oct. 1 in a contract dispute with seven casinos.

News Brief: After months of speculation about the project's fate, Aztar Corp announces that the $280 million Atlantic City Tropicana expansion will finally open by Thanksgiving Day.

Advantage gambler James Grosjean beat the odds by winning a $400,000 judgment against a Strip casino that a jury agreed violated his rights four years ago.

News Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have beaten back ballot measures aimed at expanding gambling in California, but he hasn't succeeded in striking deals with a majority of casino-owning American Indian tribes to share revenue.

News Brief: Nearly $93 million was spent on lottery games in Nebraska in the fiscal year, according to a report released this week.

News Brief: Anyone in Oklahoma ready to line up to buy a lottery ticket or to put some coins into one of the new gaming machines at a racetrack or tribal casino is going to have to wait awhile.

An amendment that allows Broward and Miami-Dade counties to hold a future referendum on whether or not slot machines can be placed at racetracks and Jai Alai frontons, has been passed.

Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. is announces its 2004 Mississippi Gaming Seminar on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Jackson Country Club.

News Brief: The Cowlitz Indian Tribe has unveiled plans for a vastly larger casino than it had envisioned earlier, and a tribal leader said it would include a hotel/restaurant, convention center, retail complex and tribal cultural center.

Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment’s Board of Directors has authorized the company to commence a tender offer to purchase up to 1,040,421 shares of its Common Stock and up to 1,607,506 shares of its Class A Common Stock at a fixed price of $12.00 per share.

World Poker Tour Enterprises reports net loss for Q3 was $0.5 million and basic and diluted losses were $0.03 per share. This compares with a net loss of $0.4 million and basic and diluted losses of $0.03 per share for Q3 2003.

News Brief: The ink isn't dry on Georgetown county's new regulations on gambling vessels but is already being challenged by casino boat owner Wallace Cheves.

News Brief: A municipal judge who admitted she was addicted to gambling and had taken loans from lawyers resigned Wednesday.

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The Nevada Gaming Control Board is leery of a portable wireless device that could someday help casino customers get cash quickly by debit or credit card.

News Brief: Officials at Detroit’s three casinos say restricting the state’s expansion of gambling offers no guarantees they will have the necessary revenue to move ahead with building permanent casinos costing $1.5 billion.