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Rossi Ralenkotter, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, and Billy Vassiliadis, chief executive of R&R Partners, the LVCVA's advertising consultant, have been jointly named Brandweek's 2004 Marketer of the Year in travel and tourism.

News Brief: Howard Sanders took his colleagues on the Mississippi Gaming Commission to task at this month's meeting for delaying a decision on whether to require vendor reporting by casinos.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will leap to an estimated $110 million.

A not-so-tongue-in-cheek billboard towering above the Hard Rock Hotel could cast a heavy shadow on Friday's Nevada Gaming Commission meeting near downtown Las Vegas.

Contract talks between the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501 and Mandalay Resort Group are at an impasse, and workers are taking a strike authorization vote today.

News Brief: As the casino gambling debate echoes across Nebraska, the popularity of keno, pickle cards, bingo games, horse races, lotteries and raffle tickets illustrate a key argument of casino gambling proponents: Gambling already exists in Nebraska.

News Brief: Federal prosecutors say they hit the jackpot in an undercover investigation into illegal gambling.

News Brief: The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents have seized 40 video gambling machines from a Spartanburg business.

News Brief: The Treasure Island casino near Red Wing, Minnesota, earned about $46 million in profits in 1997, according to financial statements released by the Minnesota Public Safety Department.

News Brief: As hospitality workers at three additional casino boats voted in favor of a strike option Wednesday, they had the comfort of knowing the powerful Steelworkers union would stand by them.

Penn National Gaming reports that Albert T. Britton has been named General Manager of the Company's Charles Town Races & Slots facility in Charles Town, West Virginia.

The Bicycle Casino has launched of its online gaming site at www.thebike.com.

The Bicycle Casino has launched of its online gaming site at www.thebike.com.

News Brief: A Las Cruces, N.M., family is suing the Mescalero Apaches' Mountain Gods Casino and Resort and four New Mexico liquor distributors over a drunken-driving crash.

News Brief: Local 54 will picket Tropicana Casino and Resort, starting midnight Friday and running through Saturday night, as part of the union's plan to force the casino industry into a contract.

The estimated Mega Million jackpot grows to $75 million for the Friday, September 24, 2004 drawing.

News Brief: Groups on both sides of a Michigan ballot proposal that would require voter approval for expanded gambling say they are building large coalitions as the Nov. 2 election nears.

News Brief: Internet gambling should be regulated and legal, according to speakers at a Washington forum.

News Brief: In his new book, ‘Golden Boy,’ Paul Hornung says gambling in the National Football League was going on among players and owners long before he entered the league in 1957.

News Brief: Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians’ tribal chairman John Miller says that a casino would help the tribe pay off the $40 million debt it as acquired since its federally recognized status was reaffirmed.