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News Brief: A U.S. District Court Judge has denied a motion to stop the expansion of slot machine gambling on California Indian reservations in a victory for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Gamblers play slot machines Wednesday at the Las Vegas Hilton. Colony Capital plans to redesign, reconfigure and renovate the casino to make it more appealing for locals and tourists.

Next month's planned reductions in Greyhound Lines' bus schedule isn't the only big change that could soon affect the company's Nevada passengers.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows Racetrack concluded its 2004 meet on July 4 with a 20% increase in all sources average daily handle and a 9% rise in on-track handle.

Las Vegas-based slot-machine maker Alliance Gaming Corp. will pay its incoming chief executive, Richard Haddrill, a base salary of $980,000 a year, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.

Indian gambling expanded in every state where it was legal last year, except in Nevada.

News Brief: Andrew N.S. Glazer, an author of books on gambling and a columnist for the Free Press, died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications from a blood clot.

Cash Systems, Inc. has signed a contract to provide credit card cash advance and ATM services to The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California.

News Brief: Authorities were investigating the death of a Las Vegas area casino executive featured in The Discovery Channel's ‘American Casino’ television series.

News Brief: Higher state and city tax increases would cripple Detroit casinos in a state and nation where gambling is increasingly a competitive business, casino interests warned.

News Brief: Wisconsin's Indian casinos pulled in nearly $1.1 billion last year, making the state the fifth-biggest tribal gambling state in a still growing $16.2 billion industry, according to a national report.

News Brief: Indian gambling revenues jumped 12 percent last year as more tribal casinos sprouted in California and slot machines were added in New York and Arizona, according to a new report.

News Brief: The legislation authorizing slot machine-like video lottery terminals in New York was declared unconstitutional today by a midlevel state appeals court.

News Brief: Under a bill signed into law Monday by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, individual lawmakers are permitted to own up to 1 percent of each of the 14 slot-machine parlors planned in the state.

News Brief: At an interactive forum tomorrow at Riverfront Park, Rep. Jeff Coleman, R-60th, plans to address the issue of gambling expansion.

News Brief: Prominent media consultant Don Sipple has left the campaign for a November ballot measure that could deliver slot machines to the state's big card clubs and racetracks.

News Brief: When construction is finished, the Choctaw Casino in Pocola, Oklahoma, will expand from 22,000 square feet to 78,000 square feet and result in more than 80 new jobs.

News Brief: Supporters of a planned casino in the nation's capital submitted their petitions Tuesday, hoping to get the issue onto the November ballot.

News Brief: Housekeepers found the bodies of two people inside a hotel room at Hollywood Casino Tuesday afternoon.