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ews Brief: Seven Omaha businessmen, including an insurance agent and a carpet-store owner, have a 20 percent stake in any future Omaha casino venture by Coast Casinos of Las Vegas.

Unemployment in Nevada fell to 4 percent in August, the lowest rate in four years, the state reported Friday.

The 500-member contract committee of Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union in Atlantic City agreed late Friday to extend its recently expired contract until Oct. 1 while negotiations with gaming companies continue.

News Brief: Manassas city staff members will present a report on Colonial Downs and the company’s plans to open a OTB facility in the city.

News Brief: Connecticut’s two casinos are looking to Brazil and South Korea for food and beverage workers.

Ten poker legends gathered at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and squared off in the 1st annual World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.

The Borgata casino kicked off the fourth stop on the World Poker Tours third season, attracting record numbers of players to the second annual Borgata Poker Open.

Vendors aren't the only ones who've found it difficult to lure paying customers to the struggling Neonopolis retail and entertainment center. The $100 million mall in downtown Las Vegas has been up for sale since mid-May, and those in charge of marketing the property are still hunting for buyers, too.

An Internet gambling executive on Thursday said he hopes Congress can be persuaded to allow U.S. regulation of online betting within the next three to five years.

News Brief: The three-horse race for Pennsylvania's last harness racing license and the 3,000 slot machines that will almost certainly accompany it under the state's new gambling bill is heading into the home stretch.

Starting this month, many major Las Vegas casinos as well as their sister properties nationwide will post brochures for customers that would have been unthinkable in the early days of legalized gambling, when secrecy and shady business practices were the norm.

News Brief: In what organizers called the largest labor demonstration in the Atlantic City's history, about 7,000 union workers and supporters staged a loud but peaceful demonstration Thursday night on the beach and Boardwalk.

News Brief: Lincoln Park clubhouse's disappearance doesn't mean the gambling facility will build the $30-million addition whose plans it first unveiled two years ago, and which it predicted, at the time, would be complete and operational by now.

News Brief: Virginia House minority whip Chap Petersen says that he will introduce legislation that would permit gambling on card games hosted by private clubs.

News Brief: The recently completed deal between Big Sandy Band of Western Mono Indians and Caesars Entertainment could bring millions of dollars to the tribe and gives the Las Vegas gaming giant a foothold in the fast-growing local casino market. But the payback for the local community is less clear.

News Brief: Officials of the 9,000-member Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe said they would join two other northern Minnesota tribes in trying to establish a Twin Cities-area casino.

News Brief: California's big horse racetracks and card clubs will launch their big push today for an initiative that could give them slot machines with a $3 million-a-week television buy for a new advertisement that takes a swipe at Indian gambling.

Harrah's New Orleans Casino will re-open at 6 p.m. Central Daylight Time today, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. announced.

Jan Hatcher has been named Senior Vice President of Distribution for GSN, the network the games.

ews Brief: August revenue at Louisiana casinos was down 4.5 percent compared with the same month a year ago, despite the addition of the Evangeline Downs racetrack casino and the expanded permanent slots casino at Harrah's Louisiana Downs.