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News Brief: When the Thunder Valley Casino celebrates its one-year anniversary June 9, it will be marking what is almost certainly the most financially successful first year of any Indian casino in the country.

News Brief: A 20-year-old Reno woman was arrested on accusations that she took a backpack containing a sawed-off shotgun and rounds of ammunition into a casino, police said.

News Brief: Smarty Jones could shake things up beyond the off-track betting parlors and sports books.

News Brief: The most controversial portion of a sweeping gambling expansion package being debated in Springfield, Illinois, is the idea of allowing Chicago to own its own gambling license.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

News Brief: In early April, United States marshals seized $3.2 million from Discovery Communications in an aggressive effort to crack down on Internet gambling.

News Brief: Love briefly dared to raise its head Friday night at America's most brutal poker brawl.

News Brief: The mayor of Maple Park, Illinois, was released from jail Saturday on bond after he was accused of participating in illegal gambling activities at a tavern, officials said.

News Brief: The NCAA infractions committee won't include potential violations involving a former softball team doctor when it considers Washington's gambling case next month.

News Brief: South on Las Vegas Boulevard, well beyond the casino-scraped skyline, there is a three-story hotel where tourists seldom go.

News Brief: A major expansion of gambling being debated in the Illinois Legislature comes after a year in which casinos and racetracks funneled thousands of campaign dollars to lawmakers.

News Brief: Groups tied to Iowa's casinos showered state lawmakers with nearly $100,000 in campaign contributions just before the 2004 legislative session, which cleared the way for a significant expansion of gambling in Iowa.

News Brief: There is nothing weird about gambling in the middle of a hotel swimming pool in Las Vegas, and not just because nothing is weird in Las Vegas.

News Brief: Many tribes pushing toward what some say will be Indian gambling's next frontier: off-reservation casinos.

Kathryn Harris had already won two jackpots totaling over $3,000 and her husband had won $2,000 before she hit the $1.6 million jackpot on the new nickel Wheel of Fortune® Special Edition video slot at Boulder Station.

Steven Allmaras, slot manager at the Virgin River hotel in Mesquite, was bludgeoned and stabbed in his own home.

News Brief: Kentucky’s Ethics Commission have ruled that Bernie Hettel violated state ethics law when he took a job with Churchill Downs after resigning in January as the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority’s executive director and chief racing steward.

News Brief: Nebraska’s casino opponents have recruited Reverend Tom Grey, executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, to help them defeat efforts to legalize gambling.

Nevada Senator Harry Reid says that if Democrats win control of the Senate this November, he may try to become chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to head off Indian gaming measures that could hurt casino companies.

News Brief: Texas police are following through with their promise to shut down any video gambling casinos that break the state’s gambling laws.