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News Brief: Members of the Alabama House of Representatives ended the 2004 session Monday night without voting on the gambling bill.

News Brief: This weekend the Maryland Lottery agency will expand its afternoon and evening Pick 3 and Pick 4 drawings to a seven-day-a-week schedule.

News Brief: A key Democratic state senator is dropping his demand that any legislation to expand legalized gambling in Pennsylvania include gambling licenses for Indian tribes.

News Brief: The Land of Lincoln is already the ‘Land of Gambling,’ Mayor Daley said Tuesday, mocking Gov. Blagojevich's core argument for saying ‘no dice’ to a Chicago casino.

News Brief: The California Lottery wants to shrink the percentage of its budget dedicated to funding public education in order to boost prize payouts in scratch-off games.

Only days after it announced it would add 35 new federal security positions at McCarran International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration reversed course Tuesday and said it would instead boost its Las Vegas work force by 81.

McCarran International Airport again enjoyed a record-setting month in April, handling more than 3.5 million arriving and departing passengers.

News Brief: Atlantic City casinos would stay open through a shutdown in state government, under a new bill.

An estimated 50,000 gamblers and curiosity seekers Monday helped Sheldon Adelson open Macau to "an exciting new era" for U.S. investments in China's multibillion-dollar gaming market.

News Brief: Three Lee County men pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers on Tuesday in what federal prosecutors are calling the largest illegal sports gambling ring in Lee County's history.

News Brief: Lincolm voters will get to decide in November whether to authorize making Lincoln Park a full-fledged casino.

News Brief: Governor Blagojevich's administration says it has placed called off an independent investigation of the Illinois Gaming Board's decision to award a casino license to suburban Rosemont and Mississippi-based Isle of Capri Casinos Inc.

News Brief: Wisconsin Republicans will force votes in the Assembly and Senate on whether the Legislature should have the final say on the state’s Indian casino compacts.

News Brief: Revenue from slot machines grew by more than 5 percent at Connecticut's two Indian casinos in April, with Mohegan Sun leading the gambling growth.

Ten months after opening last July, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa announced today that the ‘One-Millionth Customer’ in its player rewards program is Inez St. John of Brookneal, Virginia.

News Brief: The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi, preparing for its summer 2005 opening, has hired its first group of executives and opened an office on Lameuse Street.

Clark County's top aviation official and members of Nevada's congressional delegation united Monday to criticize a new plan to increase by less than 5 percent the number of federal security workers now deployed at McCarran International Airport.

A state trooper fired for refusing to work at a casino asked the Indiana Supreme Court to order him reinstated -- weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal.

Magna Entertainment Corp. reports the resignation of Douglas Donn as Chairman and a member of the board of directors of Gulfstream Park Racing Association, Inc.

Cirque du Soleil is appealing an adverse Las Vegas court decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco over the company's rights to the name "cirque."