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News Brief: The California Gambling Control Commission voted 3-1 to give the Hawaiian Gardens Casino a one-year conditional operating license.

News Brief: A proposal for a tribal casino near Anthony, New Mexico, has many residents excited, while some in Sunland Park are worried about the future of Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino and the town itself.

News Brief: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has reached agreements with five Indian tribes allowing them to operate casinos, including one near San Francisco, in exchange for a state share of gambling revenue, officials said on Thursday.

News Brief: Alarm spread quickly Wednesday over a pending agreement between the state and an Indian tribe that would create a huge casino in the heart of the Bay Area, with even the congressman whose legislation helped it along questioning the deal.

News Brief: The field of groups vying to win Pennsylvania’s last thoroughbred racing license has thinned considerably after the state's new gambling law did not guarantee a gambling license to the operator of each of Pennsylvania's thoroughbred tracks.

The Las Vegas call center of Expedia.com, an Internet travel company that helped launch the careers of two high-profile gaming executives, is closing.

New Jersey lottery revenue rose more than 5 percent in the past fiscal year, topping $2 billion in sales for the third consecutive year.

Last month's Clark County Commission decision apparently did not settle a longstanding dispute over parking between Strip casino titans Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.

News Brief: State Treasurer Barbara Hafer and a retiring state legislator are among the candidates under consideration for appointments to Pennsylvania's new gambling control board.

News Brief: Leaders of an Oklahoma tribe are exploring becoming partners in a stalled project to create a casino at Monticello Raceway, potentially cutting their New York brethren out of the project.

Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest casino in the world, is raising the stakes by celebrating its $300 million expansion today with the opening of the newly expanded Rainmaker Casino and Hard Rock Café.

The little Villa de Flores apartment complex, the subject of an intense legal battle between developer Steve Wynn and hotel owner Mike Flores in the mid-1990s, is again being slated for redevelopment.

News Brief: While the Borgata has done much to enliven casino gaming in town and is contributing to an expanding market, it had a mixed impact on the industry's second-quarter earnings.

News Brief: Isle of Capri Casinos, which is considering moving a gambling boat to Elmwood, has signed an option to lease Mississippi River batture property owned by shipping giant American Commercial Barge Lines near the Huey P. Long Bridge.

News Brief: A capacity crowd of Lewis County residents came out for the Town Meeting to hear from both sides of the gambling debate but only the anti-casino side decided to show.

News Brief: A banker fired from Civitas BankGroup after an audit found apparent fraudulent transactions told a civic group that he has a gambling addiction, members of the group said.

News Brief: Just as the courts struck down the casino referendum last week, advocates for and against West Warwick’s casino effort were girding for an epic fight.

News Brief: It appeared almost certain Wednesday that a gambling measure will have enough signatures to make the Nov. 2 ballot, setting the stage for an expensive and historic casino debate in Nebraska.

Since no ticket matched the winning numbers, the estimated Mega Millions jackpot grows to $52 million for the Friday, August 20, 2004 drawing.