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News Brief: The owners of Lincoln Park and Newport Grand have attacked the validity of a recent casino study and have accused the study’s author of significantly playing down potential losses in their own video-slot business.

News Brief: According to problem gambling experts, every time a new casino opens, so does the rate of people seeking help from gambling addiction.

News Brief: Rep. Irv Anderson says he'll change his vote and support a stadium bill if Governor Tim Pawlenty, a stadium supporter, will help obtain a gambling casino for his riding.

Bradley Ogden at Caesars Palace Las Vegas has been named Best New Restaurant in the nation by the distinguished James Beard Foundation in New York.

News Brief: Chicago Mayor Richard Daley asked state lawmakers for a city-owned casino that he said would generate hundreds of millions of dollars a year for both Chicago and Illinois.

News Brief: Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Dave Anderson’s decision not to get involved in issues pertaining to tribal recognition and gaming is not a bad thing according to Bureau of Indian Affairs officials.

News Brief: Pennsylvania bar owners said today they would be willing to share with the state some of the revenue from their video poker machines, many of which now are used for illegal payoffs to players.

He represented some of the most notorious mobsters of all time, but for the first 25 years of his career as a criminal defense attorney, Oscar Goodman refused to admit that the Mafia existed.

ews Brief: Three of the four Kansas City-area casinos reported higher revenue in April than last year, according to statistics the Missouri Gaming Commission released Monday.

The only winning lottery ticket for the Saturday’s $213.2 million draw was sold at a store in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

Russell Tanner of Dexter, Michigan has won the Michigan Lottery’s ‘Casino Riches’ instant ticket for the second time in less than two years.

The New Mexico Indian Gaming Association wants to know who its allies and opponents are among candidates for the state Legislature.

News Brief: Erie County voters feel shut out of the decision-making over a new Seneca casino, and their preference for locating it is downtown Buffalo, not Cheektowaga, according to a Buffalo News poll.

News Brief: A huge share of Indiana's growing casino business comes from across the state's borders, where competitors are pushing hard to keep their gamblers at home.

News Brief: Outfitting thousands of Mississippi casino employees is an $8 million-a-year industry. So it's appropriate that a trade show for casino uniforms was held Friday, the day after the Southern Gaming Summit.

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

News Brief: In Northwest Indiana, the lakefront casinos are using technology to boost the bottom line, in part by turning customers into VIPs.

News Brief: A gospel choir. A Mother's Day brunch. A casino hotel. Incongruous? Not Sunday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

News Brief: Police are looking for a man who robbed a Great Falls casino early Saturday and pistol-whipped a clerk.

News Brief: Although nickel and quarter slot machines have been popular at Detroit casinos for years, some of the hottest new machines on the floor are the one-cent, two-cent and dime slot machines.