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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.

The success of Wynn Las Vegas's online recruiting program is palpable in the lack of people gathered outside its employment center.

News Brief: The Casino Career Institute of Atlantic Cape Community College, on Bacharach Boulevard in Atlantic City, is one area school that turns wannabe dealers into pros.

A fraternity at the University of Tennessee says it plans to hold its poker tournament for the chapter's philanthropy despite indications from a state official the tournament constitutes illegal gambling.

News Brief: Thousands of casino-hotel workers could be back on the job as soon as Thursday, after union and casino negotiators reached a tentative agreement Monday night on a five-year contract.

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. has selected Beal Bank as the sole lead arranger for a $100 million interim financing which is expected to be funded as part of the Company's recapitalization plan announced on October 21, 2004.

News Brief: Finally, after years of legislative debate, public arguments, lawsuits, and petition drives, the future of casino gambling rests with Nebraska voters.

With showgirls, Elvis and a British beefeater in the crowd, Sunday's arrival of Great Britain's second-largest airline at McCarran International Airport might have been mistaken for just another costume party on Halloween.

Three casinos are slated for $500 million in new construction and expansion along a few miles of the Mississippi River in an effort St. Louis area officials hope will spark additional development.

News Brief: A woman was shot fatally yesterday morning in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn during an argument in what appeared to be a gambling and after-hours club, the police and witnesses said.

GSN, the network for games, is now expanding into the poker business with Poker Royale: The WPPA Championship, an exclusive six-episode series.

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

Wynn Las Vegas goes operational Monday with the opening of its employment center and what is thought to be the largest Internet recruiting program ever, anywhere.

With design work done, financing complete and shell construction wrapping up, the $2.5 billion project becomes operational Monday when it starts hiring an expected 9,000 line employees, developer Steve Wynn said.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $35 million.

The excitement continues to build as the jackpot for the Tuesday, November 2, 2004 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $66 million.

News Brief: The owner of BetCRIS.com is determined to fight what's fast becoming the scourge of Internet-based businesses: high-tech protection rackets in which gangs of computer hackers choke off traffic to Web sites whose operators refuse their demands.

Be it spooky ghouls and goblins or the prospect of four years under whichever polarizing presidential candidate has most drawn your ire, there's plenty to be afraid of over the next few days.