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Even though local tourism officials said they have not been warned about any specific threats based on the latest terror warnings, one security expert Wednesday suggested Las Vegas is a high-risk target.

Hard Rock Hotel President Kevin Kelley has been tabbed by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to join the 13-member board of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

News Brief: The Ohio House and Senate agreed on a compromise bingo bill Wednesday designed to give smaller clubs more gambling profits to cover their operating costs.

News Brief: A bill aimed at helping a single river cruise ship by adding gambling to its diversions was approved by a legislative committee Wednesday.

News Brief: Governor Tom Vilsack doesn’t think all six Iowa counties will be allowed to have a casino license.

ews Brief: Illinois’ 10th casino license took a couple more plodding steps toward Rosemont Wednesday as the Illinois Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a ruling that transferred the license to Rosemont under a 1999 law.

News Brief: City leaders agreed Wednesday to launch formal talks that could bring a casino to Des Moines.

Two million more Americans visited a casino in 2003 than in 2002, according to the 2004 State of the States: The AGA Survey of Casino Entertainment, released today by the American Gaming Association.

News Brief: Ten years ago on Thursday, the Admiral and the Station Casino in St. Charles debuted as the state's first two riverboat casinos surrounded by a storm of debate. Missouri now has 11 gaming sites and the debate continues.

American Casino & Entertainment Properties has closed its previously announced acquisition of Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Arizona Charlie's Boulder, two casinos in Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority projects 281,000 visitors over the upcoming three-day Memorial Day weekend, compared with 276,000 visitors a year ago.

Glenn Bonner and his staff handle 220,000 computer help calls a year, but none were as challenging as the one he received on Easter Sunday.

Hilton Hotels Corp. is facing calls from some shareholders to make its board more independent amid concerns over relationships between the hotelier and its directors.

Spurred by the current rage of pokermania, table games will make a resurgence in casinos, an MGM MIRAGE executive says.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has introduced a pilot program in its East Chicago, Ind., casino that allows employees to market to customers while they are gambling, such as by intercepting gamblers on a losing streak to offer them a free meal or other perks, the company's top executive said Tuesday.

News Brief: Driver fatigue is one of the areas being investigated in Monday's fatal accident in which a motorcoach returning to Houston from a Louisiana casino slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer.

News Brief: Investigators raided Shodakai Casino outside Ukiah, California, and the homes of tribal leaders, seizing files and computers in a search for evidence of embezzlement at the Redwood Valley casino.

News Brief: The National Indian Gaming Commission is conducting an inquiry into possible misuse of casino revenue by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

ews Brief: Twelve former Columbia River Gorge commissioners are urging Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski to approve a site in Cascade Locks, Oregon, for a new Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs casino.