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The North Carolina House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee has adopted a strict package of video gaming reforms.

News Brief: Ohio's lawmakers aren't yet betting on slot machines to solve Ohio's fiscal problems. In fact, the future of gambling in the state is presently stalled before the Ohio General Assembly.

News Brief: Former NBA star Larry Bird and billionaire Donald Trump are principals in investment groups vying for the contract to build a casino near the struggling southern Indiana community of French Lick.

News Brief: Ameristar Casinos has begun collecting signatures needed to call for a referendum in November to allow a new riverboat casino in Des Moines.

Cingular Wireless has pulled its sponsorship of the "Celebrity Poker Showdown" on the Bravo cable network.

Revenue at Iowa’s state-licensed casinos and racetracks reached $1.05 billion in fiscal 2004, up 7.3 percent from the previous year.

Culinary Union parent Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union have to merge, creating an organization with nearly 50,000 local workers.

For the fourth straight month, Nevada casinos registered a double-digit increase in their gross win, the first time this has happened since at least 1997.

News Brief: Given the pressure that Pennsylvania's 61,000 slots at 14 locations will put on Maryland, a legislative report that recommends a western slots location has become more urgent, according to House Speaker Michael Busch.

News Brief: The president of the East Greenwich Town Council said yesterday that the Kent County Water Authority could not handle the additional water demand of a $600-million casino proposed for neighboring West Warwick.

ews Brief: An attempt to lure Colorado Board of Education support for a proposed Indian casino project got a tepid response Wednesday, despite the developer's offer to earmark $1 billion in gaming revenue over 10 years for public education.

News Brief: Las Vegas has been on a winning streak with tourists and travelers for more than a year, but the gambling city's luck may be running thin, Wall Street analysts said on Thursday.

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

News Brief: Leaders of the Nipmuc Nation yesterday said they are optimistic they will win an appeal of an agency's decision denying them federal recognition and the right to seek a casino.

News Brief: A $25-million-plus casino is planned for Pyramid Highway in Sparks, using the license from the shuttered downtown Old Reno Casino, Reno lawyer and gaming lobbyist Harvey Whittemore said Wednesday.

ews Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has put his opposition in writing to a November ballot measure that would end Indian casino tribes' state monopoly on slot machines.

News Brief: Governor Bob Wise has been asked to revoke some video lottery licenses, and deny new ones, to newly created fraternal organizations some lawmakers say are taking advantage of West Virginia gambling laws.

News Brief: Gary DiBartolomeo, the former president of Caesars Atlantic City who lost his casino license after admitting to a compulsive gambling problem and lying to state regulators, has be allowed to reapply for a license.

News Brief: Rather than take a vote on whether to include the casino gambling issue on November’s ballot, Lewis County Commissioners voted to first hold three meetings to allow for more public input.

News Brief: A judge on Wednesday threw out two gambling-related charges filed against the general manager of a closed American Indian casino in downtown Kansas City, Kansas.