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Senator Tommy Tomlinson has defended the Governor's selection of Frank Friel to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board against attacks on his character by gambling opponents.

The Commonwealth's Executive Board has established annual salaries for members of the newly created Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, which will regulate gaming in the Commonwealth.

News Brief: In time, according to gambling industry officials and economists, California almost surely will pass Nevada as the nation's biggest gambling venue.

News Brief: Julia Plucker, a spokeswoman for a pro-gambling coalition, has accepted a challenge from Gambling With the Good Life to a series of debates across Nebraska.

News Brief: With the advent of lottery scholarships across the state this fall, the expectation was enrollment at Tennessee colleges and universities would increase, however, enrollment has remained flat.

News Brief: A top aide to Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton received $700 from a consultant working to legalize and open a Native American casino here.

News Brief: Members of a Mississippi committee studying how to legally protect the Coast's gambling barges from storm damage mulled their options in their first meeting since a judge barred Treasure Bay from moving its casino to a more secure location.

Caesars Entertainment, with its signature toga doubling as an ill-fitting bridal gown, has apparently been ditched at the altar by the Pauma Band of Mission Indians.

News Brief: The Board of State Canvassers voted 4-0 on Monday to certify more than 443,000 petition signatures for a ballot measure that would require voters to approve new gambling in Michigan.

News Brief: The same four digits have hit in the daytime Pennsylvania Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.

The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, a trade group for makers of slot machines and related equipment, has made a $20,000 contribution to to the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling.

Southwest Airlines will eliminate one nonstop round trip between Las Vegas and Los Angeles when it revamps its schedule in October.

News Brief: Horsemen laid the groundwork yesterday for another push to gain slot-like gambling machines at Indiana racetracks, making a presentation designed to impress lawmakers with the industry's value to the state.

News Brief: A Pennsylvania Crime Commission report issued 30 years ago could cause a political problem for Gov. Rendell and his newly appointed gambling board chairman, a former Philadelphia police officer and celebrated mob-buster Francis P. Friel.

Monticello Raceway’s live racing schedule will change in September.

News Brief: Mississippi-based Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. is adding a 120-room hotel to its Boonville, Mo., casino property.

News Brief: Horsemen laid the groundwork yesterday for another push to gain slot-like gambling machines at Indiana racetracks, making a presentation designed to impress lawmakers with the industry's value to the state.

A selection of news and views this week from inside the industry.

News Brief: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock says that she would introduce a constitutional amendment calling for greater legislative oversight and public consideration of Indian gaming compacts.

News Brief: The Manzanita Indian band's hopes of developing an off-reservation casino in Calexico are getting a big boost with the backing of a new business partner: the Viejas tribe.