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News Brief: With New York state working on a deal with an Oklahoma tribe for a scaled-down casino in downtown Rochester, a Seneca Nation leader says the tribe is not worried because the federal government will never approve the deal for the out-of-state tribe.

News Brief: The Rhode Island House and Senate yesterday approved slightly different bills to allow a statewide referendum in November on the proposed casino that Harrah's Entertainment is seeking to build, with a promised cut to the Narragansett Indians.

The Las Vegas County Club's board of directors is preparing a response to Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn's $40 million buyout offer, although some members believe they are not being told all of the facts, sources said Tuesday.

The head of Southern Nevada's second-busiest airline painted a dismal portrait of the U.S. aviation industry Tuesday, telling a Las Vegas audience high fuel costs and rigid competition could soon permanently ground many of today's largest carriers.

News Brief: U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne joined Nebraska's anti-gambling efforts in a series of press conferences across the state Monday.

The Clark County Department of Aviation hopes to issue up to $400 million in new bonds to help finance planned land purchases and construction at three existing Southern Nevada airports and the proposed airport site in Ivanpah Valley.

Another Las Vegas landmark changed hands Friday when Caesars Entertainment completed the $280 million sale of the Las Vegas Hilton to Colony Capital.

News Brief: A surge in attendance at Belterra Casino Resort & Spa boosted the May turnstile count at southeastern Indiana's three casinos by 7 percent compared with the same month a year earlier.

Nevada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped two-tenths of a percentage point to 4.1 percent in May, the state's lowest rate since August 2000.

Mohegan Sun and Ticketmaster have signed a multi-year ticketing agreement for all Mohegan Sun events.

The new tribal casino compact agreements signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday likely will have no effect on the gaming industry in Las Vegas and little in the rest of the state, industry insiders and experts said.

News Brief: Three San Diego tribes have signed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's gambling contract, but others have taken issue with the compacts.

News Brief: Under a proposal being considered, Pennsylvania would borrow against future gambling revenue to enable property taxpayers to get rebates much sooner and to provide money for Pittsburgh and Philadelphia projects.

An already crowded dining corridor in west Las Vegas will soon have another big-name player on the menu.

News Brief: As lawmakers work toward an agreement that would legalize slot machines in Pennsylvania, gambling opponents gathered at the state Capitol yesterday in an attempt to stop the momentum building for the bill.

News Brief: More West Virginians are suffering from addiction to gambling, according to the state Problem Gamblers Help Network.

Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn last week teed up an offer to buyout the landmark Las Vegas Country Club on Joe W. Brown Drive across from the Las Vegas Hilton for $40 million.

Ben Affleck won a major poker open last night when he captured Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship's $10,000-buy in event that netted him a cool $356,400, and a seat at the World Poker Tour Championship next April.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. said it recently paid about $73 million to an Iowa West Racing Association affiliate as an additional purchase price consideration for the Bluffs Run Casino.