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News Brief: Harrah's, which is acquiring Caesars, must integrate some of the country's most extravagant gaming palaces into its relatively staid portfolio.

Employees of Caesars Entertainment offered mixed opinions Thursday on whether Harrah's Entertainment's pending $9.4 billion buyout would help bury Caesars or praise it.

The new Las Vegas monorail opened to a steady stream of curiosity-seekers who generally raved about the high-tech trains.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods are not worried that the introduction of 61,000 slots into neighbouring states will adversely affect their business.

News Brief: Ralph Reed, Bush campaign strategist for the Southeast, denies that he has been secretly taking funds from a tribe with a casino monopoly as payment to launch a moral crusade against a competitive tribe’s casino plans.

News Brief: The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission voted 3-1 Thursday to reject a request by one company to push back a Nov. 10 deadline for new gaming license applications until the end of the year.

News Brief: A proposed merger between Harrah's Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment could have a major impact on the Mississippi casino market.

News Brief: Two Indian tribes say they are close to a deal with the state to build a casino near the Kansas Speedway.

The former Venetian hotel-casino employee who concocted the plan to rig drawings in a bid to appease high-rollers who had lost money in a February 2002 gambling trip apologized to gaming regulators Wednesday.

For many Strip tourists who learned this morning of Harrah's Entertainment Inc.'s blockbuster acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Inc., bigger doesn't necessarily mean better.

Minority small business people attending the MBE Showcase 2004 had mixed opinions about how the proposed mergers of major gaming companies will affect their chances of doing business with those companies.

Bill Thompson, a public administration professor at UNLV, said the increased concentration of Harrah's and Caesars employees would enhance political power.

Nevada gaming regulators have approved Station Casinos' request to take over management at Henderson's Gold Rush and Magic Star casinos.

A Senate panel has approved legislation which would increase the number of electronic gambling machines allowed in California tribal casinos.

Station Casino’s ongoing strategy of buying up any and every prime locals gaming site it can obtain in Southern Nevada has paid off richly in recent months.

News Brief: An Arkansas convenience store has been asked to stop selling pull-tabs that looked an awful lot like lottery tickets.

News Brief: The Bush administration won't adopt a ‘blanket’ policy on off-reservation gaming, according to a top Bureau of Indian Affairs official.

News Brief: Armed with anti-gambling statistics and a promise to fight, a group of residents urged the Lansing Village Board to approve a resolution against the proposed Native American casino in Lynwood.

News Brief: Through tribes in neighboring states are building casinos, Kentucky remains an unlikely place for tribal gaming any time soon.

News Brief: The Santa Ysabel band of Diegueño Indians secured funding from an Arizona tribe to build a $30 million, 70,000-square-foot casino on its reservation in the Volcan Mountains.