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News Brief: The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has offered to hold formal discussions with Minnesota government leaders about sharing casino profits, perhaps putting some toward new sports stadiums.

News Brief: Unable to quell broad bipartisan opposition, Governor Schwarzenegger has pulled back a controversial tribal gambling agreement that would have cleared the way for a large urban casino in the San Francisco Bay Area.

News Brief: The Missouri Gaming Commission has voted to relax its rule against allowing guns in casinos in accordance with a state law, but patrons still shouldn't expect to be able to strap on a six-shooter while sitting at the poker tables.

The off-Strip Ellis Island Casino & Brewery has submitted plans with to build a 36-story condo-hotel tower with about 800 rooms.

News Brief: New Jersey Governor McGreevey signed legislation that will generate billions of dollars in casino resort development over the next five years.

PokerCoaching.com today announces the availability of the first-ever professional coaching service, for aspiring poker champions worldwide.

Zone4Play has signed a marketing and distribution agreement with Bluestreak Technology Inc. to bring play-for-fun casino games packages to customers.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $28 million.

The sale of the $1.4 billion Aladdin hotel-casino is back on track since Nevada investigators were given access to audit documents dealing with some of the buyers' investments.

To better serve what has become the fastest-growing segment of the hospitality industry in Las Vegas, the Culinary Training Academy today will open a $3 million kitchen classroom at Nevada Partners.

News Brief: The Missouri Gaming Commission on Wednesday fined Harrah's North Kansas City Casino and Hotel $25,000 for mailing promotional material to compulsive gamblers.

News Brief: Ted Arneault, CEO of MTR Gaming Group wants to build a new racetrack and casino in Summit Township, Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Four of the five tribes that signed new gambling deals with California in June have started ordering hundreds of additional slot machines that could eventually bring the state more than $10 million a year.

News Brief: For those who are compulsive gamblers, the Yakama Nation's tribal casino helps those who help themselves.

News Brief: Over dinner, West Warwick citizens cheered for the Narragansett Indian tribe and reaffirmed their commitment to the casino that has so far eluded both town and tribe.

News Brief: Gambling dollars from Mississippi casinos fell 0.5 percent in July compared to the same month a year ago, new figures show.

News Brief: Several Senate Democrats said Wednesday they would not ratify Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal to create an Indian casino in San Pablo during the legislative session scheduled to end Friday.

Scientific Games Corporation reports that the New Mexico Gaming Control Board has chosen it to conduct a pilot project for a gaming central monitor system replacement by installing its new AEGIS Video system.

Caesars Entertainment Inc. has hired Fremont, Calif.-based Maita-Saviano Public Relations LLC to help increase Caesars' visibility among the technology trade press.

The Aladdin hotel-casino, nearing the end of a marathon run in bankruptcy, reported a profit of $3 million in July, according to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.