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News Brief: The failed effort to put a $500 million gambling hall in Washington, D.C., was the latest setback for an offshore firm whose associates have been unsuccessfully pushing gambling ventures nationwide in the past year.

News Brief: Officials in the horse racing industry were surprised and suspicious about the abrupt call for a Senate hearing Tuesday in Albany on the future of the industry.

News Brief: Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has cleared the way for gambling at five tribal chapters by not acting on legislation passed by the Tribal Council.

News Brief: As overseas sites prosper, observers are betting Justice Department will eventually relent and regulate activity.

News Brief: Colorado's congressional delegation, worried that a powerful senator might use legislative sleight-of- hand to win approval of an Indian casino on the outskirts of Denver, has united to stop it.

News Brief: The Jicarilla Apache Nation opened its new casino operation Friday in a 12,000-square-foot building on busy U.S. 550, featuring 200 slot machines, four blackjack tables and two poker tables.

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

News Brief: In San Mateo County, gambling interests are betting big bucks on Proposition 68, having dumped nearly $3.5 million into the campaign.

News Brief: A defeat of an amendment that would have authorized a gambling boat in Rockaway Beach has left the little Missouri town angry.

Many Las Vegas employers, defying national trends as they have since the recent recession started four years ago, were adding jobs in July.

Based on surging demand for Las Vegas as a business and leisure travel destination, Las Vegas Sands is proceeding full-speed ahead with financing for a $1.6 billion, 3,000-room resort adjacent to The Venetian.

Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas swung to a second-quarter profit on a property sale gain, revenue growth fueled by a newly expanded property and cost cutting.

A small trade show said it has filed a formal complaint with Mandalay Resort Group against a Mandalay board member, saying the board member violated the company's conflict of interest rules by attempting to obtain an equity interest in the show and then blocking the show's desired dates.

A casino near the entrance to Lake Mead that has long been eyed by developers is one step closer to becoming property of the National Park Service.

News Brief: A former casino host and a Philadelphia brothel operator pleaded guilty Thursday to roles in a prostitution ring that delivered young Asian women to customers at casinos and the brothel.

A proposal to put a casino in the nation's capital was knocked off the ballot Thursday by election officials who accused supporters of flouting the law.

The state awarded a contract to a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm to help develop a way to monitor money pouring in at slot machine parlors across the state and do background checks of applicants seeking lucrative gambling licenses.

News Brief: West Virginia and Delaware have had no significant increase in crime since enacting slots legislation in the mid-1990s.

News Brief: A local catering firm employee was surprised at how easily his van was allowed through a locked gate at Saratoga Race Course recently.

Chris DelGuidice is still wading through permitting issues for his 880-unit Vegas Grand condominium off Flamingo Road at Swenson Avenue, but he's already making plans for an even larger project next to the Palms.