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Foxwoods Resort Casino is helping its patrons to offset the skyrocketing prices at the gas pumps this summer by launching its ‘Fill Up with Foxwoods’ Giveaway beginning July 1st.

Two members of Fort McDowell Casino's tribal regulatory office have been fired after one of them used casino surveillance cameras to zoom in and photograph the breasts of unsuspecting female patrons and employees, authorities said.

Large grants of restricted stock and sales of millions of dollars' worth of stock options boosted compensation for casino executives to record highs last fiscal year, with experts attributing much of the rich pay increases to savvy profit-taking and impressive gains in casino stocks.

Some say MGM Mirage's pending offer for Mandalay Resort Group would have little to no effect on the way the casinos are run and would be imperceptible to consumers.

News Brief: Some Iowa communities hoping to add casino gambling probably will be turned down, even though state regulators are leaning toward an expansion of Iowa's casino industry, gambling commissioners said in advance of a key meeting this week.

News Brief: Smarty Jones headed back to his home at Philadelphia Park on Sunday, still a fan favorite but no longer undefeated after his upset loss in the Belmont Stakes.

News Brief: Bookmakers have offered odds of 3/1 that singer/actress Jennifer Lopez and her new husband Marc Anthony will divorce by the end of the year.

News Brief: Anti-gambling activists are taking on Illinois’ charity raffles, charging that the high-stakes contests are forms of gambling that often don’t follow the law.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk tribe said it would comply with the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling and shut down the expanded table games.

News Brief: Las Vegas-based casino giant Harrah's Entertainment Inc. will operate the Ak-Chin Indian Community's casino for five more years under terms of a contract extension announced this week.

News Brief: Mayor Anthony M. Masiello and a group of Buffalo businessmen seeking to force the Seneca Nation to build its casino in Buffalo may know within a week whether a state judge will bar the nation's plan for a Cheektowaga site.

Room rates at Strip hotel-casinos maintained their steady climb in the second quarter of 2004, accelerating as Las Vegas heads into the hot summer months.

A $1 billion slot machine company controlled by Steve Wynn's Japanese business partner received unanimous approval Friday for a two-year Nevada manufacturer's license.

News Brief: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison wrapped up the Republican Texas convention by affirming her stance against gambling.

News Brief: The Shodakai Casino in Mendocino County has been ordered to close its doors by noon tomorrow because it hasn't signed a state gaming agreement.

Schwarzenegger will hold a press conference in Las Vegas next week, urging companies and executives who have moved out of California because of the state's high taxes and workers compensation rates and other problems to do just that.

30 local business and community leaders gathered Friday at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce's Hughes Center headquarters, intent on rebutting what they felt was the series' largely negative portrayal of this area.

Critical or not, many local advertising and gaming officials saw some upside in the New York Times' critical six-part series on Las Vegas.

News Brief: The California Supreme Court has refused for a second time to hear a lawsuit that seeks to remove a gambling initiative backed by cardrooms and racetracks from the November ballot.

News Brief: The Catawba Indian Nation will proceed with a lawsuit against South Carolina after the state General Assembly recessed for the year without passing a bill to allow the tribe to open a bingo operation in Santee.