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News Brief: Hollywood Casino Shreveport, a riverboat casino operator whose creditors forced it into bankruptcy in September, agreed to reorganize and sell its assets under court protection.

News Brief: Nebraska voters overwhelmingly rejected their Legislature's casino gambling plan Tuesday, and the two key parts of an alternative casino proposal were also losing, which was good news across the Missouri River in Council Bluffs.

News Brief: Voters devoted billions of dollars Tuesday to stem cell research and rejected an expansion of California's gambling industry.

News Brief: Voters in Washington state rejected both a sales tax increase for education and expanded gambling off Indian reservations that would have cut property taxes, according to election results on Wednesday.

News Brief: Backed by an infusion of a $20-million ad campaign, Michigan’s Proposal 1, the ballot initiative that allows voters to approve any new form of legalized gambling , passed easily.

John G. Brokopp: It’s a high-energy alternative to traditional table gaming.

News Brief: GameTech International, the Reno-based supplier of electronic bingo equipment, has laid off 12 workers, about half of them engineers.

International News Brief: British punters have bet £8 million on the outcome of the US presidential election, an absolute record surpassing all predictions, bookmakers said on Tuesday.

A lawsuit challenging the appointment of former state Rep. Jeffrey W. Coy to the state's new gambling commission is "blatantly political," the president judge of Commonwealth Court said Monday.

Agents with the state Gaming Control Board have seized three illegal slot machines after spotting a full-page ad in the Clovis newspaper promoting a public sale at the National Guard Armory in Hobbs.

News Brief: The former chief executives of Lincoln Park and its British parent company, Wembley Plc, entered another round of not guilty pleas Monday, as they were indicted again on charges connected to an alleged bribery scheme.

News Brief: After years of battling the moralists and a reluctant Springfield, that a land-based casino is finally within the Chicago’s grasp.

Rinaldo Corporation has filed suit against Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc., and three alleged co-conspirators, Sierra Research & Consulting, Ltd., Michael Derry and Shelia Torkelson.

ESPN and DVD Marketing Inc. are launching the entire 2003 ESPN telecast of The World Series of Poker on a double-disc DVD.

The two airlines with the most flights at McCarran International Airport will add more operations early next year.

News Brief: Most Minnesotans don't want more casinos in the state, especially non-Indian casinos. But they would sure like a cut of Indian casino revenues, a new poll shows.

News Brief: Jackpot's Cactus Petes Resort Casino and The Horseshoe Hotel & Casino, owned by Ameristar Casinos Inc., brought in operating income of $3.5 million in the third quarter and saw operating income margins rise by 5.7 percentage points.

If nothing else, Las Vegas' ratio of stuffed game animals to residents is about to increase exponentially.

Pinnacle Entertainment reports the ‘topping out’ of L'Auberge du Lac, the company's $365 million casino resort under construction in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

State greyhound racing regulators have suspended the occupational license of a man who races dogs at the Dubuque Race Track and Casino.