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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.

News Brief: Washington state casino owners and employees are pouring money into a campaign for a candidate running for a state representative seat.

News Brief: The construction of a Hesperia casino will be set back months because an agreement between the city and tribal officials doesn't meet the state's environmental laws.

A delegation of striking casino workers from Atlantic City will meet with major service unions in London next week to warn them that major American gaming companies are hostile to worker benefits and unions, union officials said Friday.

International News Brief: The UK culture secretary has come under fire from Britain’s most senior police officers over moves to grant American casinos an exemption from Europe’s strict money laundering rules.

In the poker room of The Palms Casino where he plays regularly, he is known as Lucky Mickey and Michael Glass earned the moniker this afternoon when he won $13.6 million on Nevada Megabucks.

Overall, the Calder meet showed declines in attendance and wagering, but the Festival of the Sun and the Summit of Speed, Calder's popular day of sprint stakes in July, once again proved to be successful events.

News Brief: There is a new generation of poker players who feast on the growing number of novices taking up online poker.

News Brief: Federal authorities plan to raise concerns with the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians in Santa Barbara County about how the tribe regulates gambling at its casino, one of the most profitable in California.

News Brief: The gambling industry's long and triumphant march toward near-ubiquity on the American landscape may be about to trip over the ballot box.

News Brief: According to the study, published last month in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the air in bars and casinos can have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles than the air on rush-hour highways.

The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino held its grand opening ceremonies this week for a new facility three times the size of the casino it replaced.

News Brief: The United States and the tiny Caribbean state of Antigua and Barbuda have broken off talks to resolve a high stakes dispute over the U.S. ban on Internet gambling, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday.

News Brief: On Tuesday, Oklahomans vote on nine proposed constitutional amendments including a state lottery and expansion of electronic casino gambling to Oklahoma’s three licensed racetracks.

ews Brief: A lawyer for the Catawba Indian Nation argued that a federal judge should decide whether the state can prevent the tribe from operating video gambling machines in Rock Hill.

International News Brief: British bookmakers and betting exchanges are set to take almost £20 million worth of trades on the contest between George W Bush and John Kerry by the time the US Presidential election results come in on Tuesday night.

News Brief: New Jersey casino regulators have asked the state attorney general to authorize an investigation into whether freebies and perks were improperly bestowed on the governor and his staff during unpublicized visits to Trump Plaza in 2002, according to two law enforcement sources.

News Brief: Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall said she would not bring illegal gambling charges against the man who put on Texas Hold'em tournaments at a local bowling alley.

News Brief: Landry's Restaurants is eyeing various acquisitions including casinos, CEO Tilman Fertitta said yesterday.

With 10,000 casino workers going into the fifth week of their walkout in Atlantic City, union officials escalated hostilities Thursday by filing about 200 unfair labor practices complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.