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News Brief: While a weekend picket held by casino workers did not appear to affect visitors to the city, it did draw the attention of a superior court judge.

Powerball is up for grabs again offering a jackpot of $128 million for next Wednesday's draw.

Amy Holmes of Thompson, Susquehanna County, is the first winner of the $1 million top prize in the Pennsylvania Lottery's $1 Million Blockbuster instant game.

News Brief: NYRA chairman Barry Schwartz said the dispute can be resolved only if the racetracks in the group 'come to their senses.'

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and Caesars Entertainment, Inc. have signed a definitive agreement to sell four casinos to an affiliate of Colony Capital, LLC.

In the fourth in a series of summit meetings, a panel of experts agreed that although consumers will have to wait for regulation of online gambling, and for laws to offer them basic protections, there is reason to be encouraged.

The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority has entered into a development agreement and a management agreement with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

News Brief: A Fort Myers man who now works as a car salesman pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to operating an illegal sports gambling operation.

News Brief: Governor Tim Pawlenty has repeated his call for the state of Minnesota to get a piece of the action in casino gambling.

News Brief: You could say that more teenage boys have started staying home and working on math skills: calculating percentages, identifying patterns, adding and subtracting.

News Brief: Jacob Coin, the executive director for California’s dominant Indian gambling lobby, resigned this week in what may be another sign of turmoil within the powerful organization.

News Brief: Warren Buffett and the wife of U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne will be featured television commercials funded by a Nebraska anti-gambling group.

Gary Green’s high-speed ascension as the operator of two of the largest casinos in the Midwest is matched only by the three other casino projects he has on the table to open before the end of 2005.

News Brief: A 25-year-old warehouse receiving manager from Reno hit it big at the Atlantis Casino Resort.

News Brief: Casinos could draw more people from out of town and convention business to Omaha, but tourism officials don't expect the city to be transformed into a Middle West Las Vegas.

News Brief: Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations consultant Michael Scanlon quietly worked with conservative religious activist Ralph Reed to help Texas shut down a tribe's casino, then the two persuaded the tribe to pay $4.2 million to try to get Congress to reopen it.

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

The Nevada Gaming Commission on Friday approved a $2.2 million settlement of the 18-month-old case against Station Casinos for failing to file required anti-money laundering reports with the federal government.

Attorneys hailed a Nevada Gaming Commission's Friday decision to dismiss two complaints against the Hard Rock Hotel arising from its sexually suggestive advertisements as a victory for the hotel-casino and the First Amendment.

News Brief: The statewide rejection of a casino for Rockaway Beach has only fueled some residents' fervor to one day hear the ringing of slot machines and rattling of dice in the faded resort town.