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News Brief: A mistake that resulted in $3 million in Indiana riverboat gambling revenue not being used as planned to lower school taxes has left Harrison County residents saddled with higher property taxes this year.

ews Brief: A group opposed to casino gambling says an ad campaign for a new riverboat casino in Washington County violates Iowa ethics rules.

News Brief: Track officials at Vernon Downs and Raceway Ventures are still focused on one man to financially revive the track: Eric Spector.

News Brief: Democrats are criticizing Governor Schwarzenegger’s casino deal as ‘mind-boggling’ in the detrimental impact it could have on the Bay Area.

Wall Street's 2004 push toward consolidation reprised early Friday, and once again the latest corporate megadeal had multiple Las Vegas connections.

News Brief: A casino bus burst into flames next to a freeway Sunday morning not long after dozens of passengers got off the vehicle, authorities said.

News Brief: Responding to opposition from Bay Area legislators, a California Indian tribe and investors have proposed scaling back plans for a sprawling, Las Vegas-style casino near San Francisco and Oakland.

Empire Resorts reports that the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has designated Empire Resorts as the tribe's exclusive casino development partner for the Catskills region of New York.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

News Brief: Law enforcement officers raided a plain metal building on the outskirts of Troy, Alabama, seizing 60 video gambling machines and surprising customers who were feeding dollar bills into the machines.

Steve Wynn says that he plants to simultaneously implode both remaining Desert Inn hotel buildings, including the St. Andrews Tower, about 1 a.m. on Nov. 17.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused a Dallas investor in the former Maxim hotel-casino in Las Vegas of engaging in insider trading.

Steve Wynn says that media reports linking him to plans to develop a tribal casino near Disneyland in Orange County, California, are exaggerated.

George Maloof, owner of the Palms, and Jerry Turk, former owner of Fitzgeralds, were the big winners in California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest tribal casino agreements.

Some local Las Vegas vendors are worried that they are going to suffer as a result of the Harrah's and MGM Mirage megamergers.

The Chehalis Tribe broke ground this week on an impressive 70 room and suite hotel on the grounds of the Lucky Eagle Casino.

News Brief: The Casino Queen, like most of its competitors in Illinois and Missouri, is following an industry trend and phasing out tokens in favor of tickets.

News Brief: A suburban Detroit horse track is challenging a proposed November ballot initiative that would require voters to approve new gambling in Michigan.

News Brief: The City Council on Thursday rejected a proposed gambling development in New Orleans East.