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News Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and a once-landless Indian tribe are expected to announce within weeks a deal that would bring slot machines to the heart of the Bay Area, creating California’s first full-fledged urban casino in San Pablo.

News Brief: Organizations that want to raise money with Texas hold'em poker tournaments have been told to fold their hands.

In the early 1980s, then-Golden Nugget owner Steve Wynn placed the downtown Las Vegas resort on the national consciousness using a series of clever television ads.

News Brief: Using a procedural maneuver, three Democratic women who helped to defeat the mini casinos last week asked the Ohio House to reconsider the vote.

News Brief: A pair of rival gambling initiatives have qualified for the November ballot, setting the stage for a showdown pitting Indian casinos against the state's racetracks and cardrooms.

Four tribal casino operators have reached agreements with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger allowing for unlimited slots in return for promises to pay an immediate $1 billion to the state and $250 million more yearly, Wall Street analysts said Tuesday.

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. has signed an agreement with Windsor Woodmont Black Hawk Resort Corp. to acquire Mountain High Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado for approximately $115 million.

John G. Brokopp: There are some encouraging developments at Chicago-area casinos in Illinois.

When Los Angeles resident Scott Abramowitz comes to Las Vegas, he bypasses newer resorts such as Bellagio and Mandalay Bay to stay at Caesars Palace.

Las Vegas' summer travel season got a strong Memorial Day kickoff as tourists shook off record-high gasoline prices to fill the city's hotels, show rooms and restaurants.

The Aladdin hotel-casino had another profitable month in April, according to a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Las Vegas.

News Brief: Batavia Downs, believed to be the nation's oldest nighttime Standardbred track, will not open for racing this summer because of dwindling revenue and an inability to get financing for its racino operation, track officials said.

Eleven of the Indian tribes operating casinos in New Mexico earned a record $11 9 million from slot machines during the first three months of the year.

Station Casinos Inc.'s gamble on the Thunder Valley Casino in Northern California is paying off, spurring more Indian tribes look to the Las Vegas company for helping opening casinos.

New Brief: Pennsylvania police want to form a unit dedicated exclusively toward criminal investigations, background checks and regulatory control over what could be an explosion in legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: In early April U.S. marshals seized $3.2 million from Discovery Communications, the television and media company, in an aggressive effort to crack down on a new target, Internet gambling.

News Brief: A former financial controller for a Minnesota travel agency has been charged with stealing more than $660,000 from Carrousel Travel and spending most of it at local casinos.

Gaming stocks, after enduring a month-long selling binge in which average prices skidded more than 15 percent, rallied in the last two weeks of May.

ews Brief: A gambling investigation in Randolph County, North Carolina, that became public last month may add to the support for a video poker ban and make the path to re-election a little easier for a Randolph County Republican.

Many Las Vegas casinos that were racing to shut down their poker rooms just a few years ago are rushing to reopen or enlarge them now.