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Caesars Entertainment Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Bally's Casino New Orleans to an affiliate of Columbia Sussex Corporation for approximately $24 million.

News Brief: Ground has been broken on a new ship that will substantially increase the size of Blue Chip Casino, one of five riverboats along Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline.

News Brief: The federal commission that oversees Indian gaming has warned New York tribes to resolve a dispute with the state or face 'enforcement action' on their casinos, according to a U.S. attorney.

News Brief: After pressuring Indian tribes all year to share casino gambling revenues with the state, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has finally put a number on what he wants: $350 million a year, which he says amounts to about a fourth of tribes' gambling profits.

News Brief: A company awarded a $90,000 state contract to conduct a study on the socio-economic impact of gambling in Iowa has canceled the contract because of controversy over its ties to the casino industry, state lawmakers announced.

Nevada gaming regulators have revised their list of excluded persons, the so-called 'black book' of names of people who aren't welcome in the state's casinos.

The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments whether attorney Charles McCrea Jr. is owed more than $1.4 million from Mikohn Gaming Corp., which fired him last year.

Peter Eliades, owner of the Olympic Garden topless bar in Las Vegas, has agreed to pay a $113,000 fine on allegations he violated gaming regulations.

Las Vegas Sands Inc., which owns the Venetian and is building the 3,000-room Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip, has received final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission to sell up to $575 million in common stock.

News Brief: Buoyed by phenomenal success in its first 15 months of operation, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa is planning a $347 million expansion that will add a new 45-story hotel tower to the megaresort.

Gaming experts from Nevada to New Jersey, and from many states in between, will participate in Gaming & Technology Conference 6.0 to be held Nov. 8-9 at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

News Brief: The Ohio State Racing Commission has opened its own investigation into a state Department of Public Safety report that video gambling machines were operating in a bar on property that includes the Cedar Downs off-track betting parlor in the northwest portion of the state.

News Brief: The two candidates for state representative in the 72nd Illinois House District disagree on expanding gambling in the state.

News Brief: A Kansas legislative committee will scrutinize market protections granted to a proposed casino in Wyandotte County as part of a compact between Governor Kathleen Sebelius and two Indian tribes.

News Brief: Gambling action at Southeast Indiana's riverboat casinos continued to grow in the third quarter.

News Brief: In radio ads that started airing Tuesday, actor Danny Glover and NAACP president Kweisi Mfume beseech listeners to boycott the seven casinos in a contract standoff with Local 54 of Unite Here.

News Brief: The Ohio attorney general says some groups are going too far and stepping over the line of what is considered legal gambling.

Frank Scoblete: It was the best of crews; it was the worst of crews.

The Club Cal Neva hotel and casino is closing its 125-room Virginian tower in downtown Reno this weekend.

Caesars Entertainment says it would earn from 4 to 6 cents per share in the fourth quarter, lower than analysts' average estimate of 8 cents due to uncertainties surrounding a strike in Atlantic City.