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News Brief: A casino in Dallas County would generate jobs, provide property tax relief and lower water and sewer rates, proponents told residents at a town hall meeting Thursday.

The Hard Rock Hotel's dispute with gaming regulators over several of its ads is turning into a full-bore confrontation over the First Amendment that will begin Friday when the Nevada Gaming Commission hears motions on the case.

News Brief: With only four August weekends instead of last year's five, betters at Southeast Indiana's riverboat casinos wagered 5 percent fewer dollars last month compared to August 2003.

News Brief: After admitting in court that she used money stolen from a 4-H Parent Leaders bank account to pay gambling debts, former Fort Bend County Treasurer Jeanne Parr was given five years deferred adjudication and sent to jail for 14 days.

News Brief: Earlier this month the Indiana Horse Racing Commission requested proposed race dates from Hoosier Park and Indiana Downs.

News Brief: It could be weeks before Hurricane Ivan's stomach punch to Mississippi's economy is known, but many speculate the state took a heavy financial blow when it was forced to close casinos, hotels and other industries along the Gulf Coast.

News Brief: Canadian singer Celine Dion has extended her popular Las Vegas show for another year.

News Brief: Dubuque Greyhound Park and Casino employees are back on the job today after a two-week strike.

News Brief: One of its latest instant scratch-off ticket games apparently has been helping generate a tidy sum of revenue for the owners of an offshore-based online casino.

The state of Iowa and the Meskwaki tribe have agreed on a new gambling compact to replace one that expired last month.

The jackpot for the Tuesday, September 21, 2004 drawing is now estimated at $64 million.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $95 million.

An open letter from Dennis C. Gomes, president of resort operations, Aztar Corp. and Pamela J. Popielarski, president and general manager of Tropicana, Atlantic City, was sent to the president of Local 54.

News Brief: The sponsor of a Nov. 2 ballot initiative for slot machines at pari-mutuel facilities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties said it has named a former Florida Education Commissioner as its spokesman.

The Las Vegas law firm of Jones Vargas, by any normal measure, is a huge success: the second-largest law firm in the fastest-growing major city in the fastest-growing state in the country.

A California attorney said it would take an act of Congress to even the playing field between commercial casinos and those operated by Indian tribes when it comes to labor law.

A startup company has moved into larger offices in Las Vegas in anticipation of new gambling device sales. But those devices won't have anything to do with traditional slot machines, nor will they be sold anywhere in Nevada.

News Brief: The appointment of longtime crimefighter Frank Friel to be the first chairman of Pennsylvania's Gaming Control Board died this week when he announced his withdrawl.

ews Brief: Residents in this Westmoreland County town will decide in November whether to revive gambling in the community that was known in the 1950s as ‘the Las Vegas of the East.’

Southern Nevada's economy slowed minimally in August as the index of leading economic indicators declined to 129.29, the Center for Business and Economic Research reported Friday.