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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.

News Brief: The Michigan Senate on Tuesday passed a new version of a bill to hike taxes on Detroit casinos that would increase the tax rate to 24 percent from the current 18 percent.

News Brief: Who will manage a gambling casino to be established by the Jena Band of Choctaws is at the heart of a federal lawsuit filed by a main financial backer against two apparent management corporations.

News Brief: Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino slot revenues held at a steady $5.5 million during the months of May and April despite fluctuations in the number of people who visited.

News Brief: Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis said today he is a limited partner in the company that has proposed a horse racing track, slots casino and residential development in Hays, Pennsylvania.

A BLT Keno Tournament is scheduled for July 24th at the Peppermill Hotel Casino in Reno, Nevada.

Allegations that petition signatures in favor of bringing slots to D.C. are being collected by out-of-towners could doom the effort, a slots opponent said Saturday.

ews Brief: Massachusetts’ annual gambling drain to neighboring states' casinos could soar past $1 billion if Rhode Island opens its borders to Las Vegas-style casino gambling, according to a study by a UMass professor.

The Las Vegas Country Club board of directors last week passed on an offer by Steve Wynn to buy the golf club after Wynn increased his bid by about $13 million.

News Brief: The Kickapoo Indians' modest Lucky Eagle Casino is being replaced by a $15 million stone-and-steel structure next door.

News Brief: The Michigan Senate sent out state troopers to collect two absent senators after a bill to raise taxes on Detroit's three casinos failed a second time Tuesday.

News Brief: Alabama’s new Attorney General, Troy King is visiting the state’s dog tracks and gambling halls.

News Brief: A ruling may come as early as today in a San Diego County tribe's request to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal with gambling compacts while it mounts a legal challenge.

News Brief: A New Britain Superior Court trial referee has ruled that telephone betting services may be advertised during simulcast horse racing in Connecticut.

News Brief: Although a contract for the proposed Indian casino in Barstow has been approved, a few more hurdles and some questions remain.

News Brief: There was little about 21-year-old Sean Dunaway to suggest he was plotting the huge e-mail heist alleged by federal prosecutors.

News Brief: Gambling in North Dakota dropped about $2 million last year compared to 2002, due largely to a decline in pull-tab sales, the director of the State Gaming Division said.

International News Brief: A new generation of online services like Betfair has emerged to allow sports bettors to wager not against the house but directly against each other.

It doesn't take more than a brief weekend drive near the Strip to demonstrate a fact many travel experts have repeated ad nauseam in recent months: Las Vegas is busier than ever.