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News Brief: Gamblers can take certain common-sense precautions to help avoid becoming a victim of a casino robber.

News Brief: Taj Mahal has introduced on a variation of blackjack created by one of their own dealers.

News Brief: She looked about 14 or 16, and stood on the corner of Lake and Mill streets Thursday night.

News Brief: New Jersey racing interests must convince casino executives that lease the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park and operating slots there will actually protect and even benefit, their investment in Atlantic City.

News Brief: The City Council Monday approved a resolution urging the Illinois Legislature to create a license for a riverboat casino in Rockford.

News Brief: Jennifer McCausland, the citizen-activist who has fought unsuccessfully for a state program to treat Washington's problem gamblers, yesterday announced the formation of a Seattle-based group dedicated to securing a permanent funding fix.

News Brief: United States companies locked out of the lucrative global industry in Internet gambling, there is still money to be made as long as they don't call it gambling.

News Brief: The man who was the hub of an effort that stole $1.6 million from Harveys Lake Tahoe did not have a drug or gambling problem but felt like Robin Hood, a psychologist said Monday.

News Brief: Almost half of Indiana's residents believe casino has been good for the state, but an even larger percentage say they don't want gambling expanded.

News Brief: A chartered casino bus slammed into a stopped tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 10, in Texas, killing one person and sending others to hospitals, authorities said.

News Brief: The Ottumwa riverboat commission is moving closer to picking a casino operator for the town’s casino.

The championship event for the the World Series of Poker gets under way today at Binion's Horseshoe with an estimated 2,500 to 2,600 participants and a prize pool of more than $20 million.

The developer of the Neonopolis retail and entertainment center said Friday it plans to sell the nearly $100 million project rather than try to revive the struggling mall once hailed as a key to resurrecting business in downtown Las Vegas.

News Brief: An Idaho man will keep his house but forfeit nearly everything else under an agreement with the authorities who want to put him in prison for bookmaking.

The Strip will add 80,000 square feet of retail space with today's opening of Hawaiian Marketplace, a $175 million island-style shopping plaza with retail, entertainment and dining options in front of Polo Towers.

Penn National Gaming reports that the track at Charles Town Races & Slots will be undergoing upgrades and renovations.

Veteran Nevada Gaming Commissioner Augie Gurrola, whose third four-year term expired April 27, will step down as soon as Gov. Kenny Guinn decides on a successor.

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

As a man with plans to soon build a large glass structure along Las Vegas' busiest thoroughfare, Aby Rosen knows better than to carelessly cast stones, verbal or otherwise.

Henry Hernandez says that the Venetian was his favorite Las Vegas resort before he hit it big there early Sunday morning, winning $2.4 million on Wheel of Fortune dollars.