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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.

ews Brief: An Indiana gaming official says it's too soon to discuss replacing financially troubled Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts Inc. as the company that will build a casino in French Lick.

News Brief: Online wagering in New Jersey is likely to begin next month following the state racing commission's approval of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority's account wagering application at its agenda meeting on Thursday at Monmouth Park.

Two Montana women have pleaded guilty to federal charges in the skimming of more than $30,000 from the Silverwolf Casino in 2001.

The chief executive of the Hard Rock Hotel on Thursday announced plans to build four condo-hotel towers behind the resort at a cost of $1 billion, locking up a key parcel of land for future expansion.

Station Casinos Inc. has agreed to pay $2.4 million in fines and investigatory costs to settle a financial reporting complaint from the state Gaming Control Board.

Members of the Operating Engineers Local 501 voted Thursday to authorize the union to strike at three Mandalay Resort Group properties if the company doesn't rescind a two-tier wage proposal.

News Brief: Slot machines would get to the casino floor quicker and outside parties such as slot machine companies and entertainment franchises could share in gaming profits under a pair of casino-related bills passed by an Assembly Committee on Thursday.

News Brief: Union officials fielded a contract offer from the Tropicana Casino and Resort on Thursday and then told casino officials they could jump off their building.

A panel of experts gathered to discuss Internet gambling and outline ways to regulate this increasingly popular form of entertainment.

News Brief: The Morongo Fire Station received some special training to deal with possible fires in the towering new Morongo Casino Resort.

News Brief: Pennsylvania Revenue Secretary Greg Fajt, a former Democratic state representative from Mt. Lebanon, is a candidate to chair the state's gambling board, Governor Ed Rendell said Thursday.

No Casinos, the group that led the fight to kill three previous attempts to expand gambling in Florida, has unleashed its first major attack on a new plan to put slot machines in South Florida parimutuel facilities.

News Brief: Two California initiatives on Indian gambling are trailing by large margins, despite being backed by tens of millions of dollars from Indian tribes and other gambling interests.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved Churchill Downs Incorporated's $47 million acquisition of the Fair Grounds Race Course.

Hoosier Park at Anderson has announced a purse increase of $1,000 per race for its Thoroughbred racing program.

News Brief: In what could likely be a precedent-setting case, a Commonwealth Court judge heard arguments over the constitutionality of appointing a former Pennsylvania lawmaker, whose term had not yet expired, to the newly-formed gambling board.

News Brief: Some Nebraska businesses say that casinos hurt them while becoming a potential boon for state and local tax revenue.