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News Brief: Wisconsin wants a bigger share of profits if the Menominee Indian tribe is successful in building a casino at Kenosha.

The World Poker Tour and Travel Channel will once again break new ground, this time by launching the first televised poker analysis show.

President Casinos, Inc. (OTC:PREZQ.OB) today announced that Columbia Sussex was the winning over bidder for the Company's St. Louis casino operations.

Churchill Downs Incorporated has named D. Ben Huffman director of racing and racing secretary for Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Prof. I. Nelson Rose: Racetracks in Florida, like racetracks everywhere, have been searching for years for a way to bring in more gambling dollars.

News Brief: As the newest entry in the circle of slot machine states, Pennsylvania could be the biggest new U.S. market for years to come, casino industry leaders said yesterday.

Former Showboat hotel general manager, Frank Modica, died Sunday in Las Vegas. He was 76.

News Brief: Backers of Proposition 68 have dropped their campaign to persuade voters to pass a ballot initiative that would end Indian tribes' slot machine monopoly and expand gambling at horse tracks and card rooms.

Casino executives expressed frustration and concerns over some states’ casino taxes while speaking the Global Gaming Expo.

Sigma Game Inc. of Las Vegas has suspended its operations this week while it considers selling the company or finding a new equity partner.

The Palms and the Hard Rock Hotel are duking it out in a battle for supremacy over the hearts and budgets of the young, hip crowd.

News Brief: Civil disobedience is the next strategy the union representing 10,000 striking Atlantic City casino-hotel workers says it will use to get the attention of seven of the city's 12 casinos with which it has failed to reach a contract agreement.

News Brief: The effects of the Local 54 of Unite Here strike has gone beyond the casinos. But the difference between winning and losing is only about the length of a city block.

News Brief: Six days into the casino-workers strike, some union members have put down their placards and returned to work as the casino-hotel strike drags into Day 7.

News Brief: The Lower Lake Rancheria Koi Nation is proposing to build a casino near Oakland International Airport.

News Brief: Former Wichita Mayor Bob Knight on Wednesday said a large-scale casino resort that his development team is planning in the Wichita area would cost at least $200 million and include a golf course, a hotel, restaurants, retailers and child care.

News Brief: The Isle of Capri has revised its plan for a riverboat casino on the Mississippi River batture in Elmwood and has received a more positive review from the Army Corps of Engineers.

News Brief: Pennsylvania Senate Republicans, many of whom opposed the state's new gambling law, forced through legislation that would make a range of changes to the three-month-old law.

News Brief: The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to take up the debate over whether the 1999 law that opened the door for a casino in Rosemont is constitutional.

News Brief: A federal judge has ordered the state to return gambling equipment seized from the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma when officials shut down a casino in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, but barred the tribe from resuming gambling there.