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House leaders and the governor's budget secretary emerged from another round of talks on slot machines Monday with no agreement on a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize slots, but they will keep talking.

News Brief: Experts told a Senate committee on Monday that Atlantic City needs to significantly boost entertainment and other nongaming options in order to limit any loss of casino business when slot machines arrive in Pennsylvania.

The merger between the Ellis Island Casino & Brewery and the Tuscany Suites and Casino Resort has been scrapped and Ellis Island's owner has filed suit in Clark County District Court over the abandonment of the deal.

Full House Resorts Inc. said a recent ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court paves the way for the company to develop a casino with a Michigan Indian tribe.

News Brief: The state Board of Education cautioned Missouri voters last week about unanswered school funding questions arising from a proposed amendment on Tuesday's ballot to allow a casino in southwest Missouri.

In recent months, several companies have stepped up efforts to register their tens of thousands of employees and produce voter guides on candidates and issues.

Taking a break from his efforts to "fire" young go-getters and affix his name across the Manhattan skyline, Donald Trump has turned his attention to Las Vegas.

Despite two months of talks between the Hard Rock Hotel and the state attorney general's office, the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday said larger policy issues had to be addressed before the casino's allegedly pornographic advertising case can be resolved.

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

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

News Brief: Placing a casino question on the November ballot is on the agenda items for Rhode Island’s special General Assembly session.

News Brief: The state Board of Education cautioned Missouri voters Thursday about unanswered school funding questions arising from a proposed amendment on Tuesday's ballot to allow a casino in southwest Missouri.

News Brief: The Mohegan Indians have agreed to develop and finance a casino in Washington state with the Cowlitz Tribe.

News Brief: Yuba County supervisors demanded more time to review the environmental study for the proposed hotel-casino on Forty Mile Road, saying the document is ‘fraught with errors.’

News Brief: A group headed by Des Moines businessman Gary Kirke was selected as the developer of a proposed casino and hotel complex in Ottumwa that could cost as much as $50 million.

News Brief: Ameristar Casinos posted record earnings for the second quarter of 2004. But the company’s Jackpot, Nevada properties, again, did nothing to fuel the company's growth.

News Brief: The Shinnecock Nation clashed with Southampton's town board Tuesday night as a tribal delegation from the Indian reservation told the town board that it was wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars opposing a proposed tribal gambling casino in Hampton Bays.

News Brief: The owner of a business located near the Tropicana parking garage that collapsed in October filed a lawsuit Thursday requesting all businesses that lost profits because of the accident and experienced other problems join in a suit against those responsible.

News Brief: In just five months, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa will start building on its very successful year with an aggressive expansion.

Attorneys for the Hard Rock hotel-casino and the state attorney general's office say they're close to a new settlement of a complaint over the resort's controversial advertising campaign.