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News Brief: A wide variety of options would be available for future development of the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, although that does not necessarily mean slot machines and dice tables will be moving in anytime soon.

News Brief: The State House isn't taking a gamble on opening a casino in Anchorage just yet.

News Brief: The Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board is going to take a look at a closed case involving allegations of illegal gambling involving Indian Hills Community College athletic staff members.

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

News Brief: Nebraska would be taking advantage of suckers if it legalizes casino gambling, Omaha investor Warren Buffett said Sunday.

News Brief: In the view of many Maryland legislative leaders, Pennsylvania's plans for 12 new gambling venues would create such a huge competitive draw for dollars all but the most die-hard slots foes in Annapolis would be forced to abandon their opposition.

The Customer Respect Group has released its spring 2004 Online Consumer Respect Study focusing on tourism-related companies and their Web sites.

Along with interest rates and land prices, a sharp rise in building material costs could slow construction activity in Southern Nevada over the next few months, industry experts said.

Profit-taking and investor doubts that Las Vegas can sustain its ongoing business boom shot a hole in ballooning gaming stocks, which dropped in price as a group in April for the first time since January 2002.

Total wagering on the 130th Kentucky Derby and the Derby Day racing card at Churchill Downs smashed a North American record for total betting on an individual event and a single day of races that had been established in the 2003 renewal of the famed ’Run for the Roses.’

News Brief: Senate Democrats Thursday rejected Governor Blagojevich's lone appointee to the Illinois Gaming Board in apparent anger over the panel's decision to allow a casino in Rosemont.

Voyager Entertainment International Inc. today said it and The Rio hotel-casino discontinued talks for development of a large ferris wheel-like tourist attraction at The Rio in Las Vegas.

The leader of the acquisition company that plans to take possession of the Aladdin hotel-casino later this year says he's confident the deal will close as planned.

News Brief: Tropicana's concrete subcontractor knew there was a problem that could cause the structure to fail but ignored it, federal investigators charged in a report released Thursday on the fatal garage collapse.

News Brief: Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says if the state wants to earn any new revenue from casino gambling, the general assembly had better approve more gaming licenses.

News Brief: The Kansas Senate rejected expanded gambling 24-16 Thursday night, likely ending debate on casinos for the 2004 session.

ews Brief: By a slim margin, a Louisiana House panel endorsed legislation Wednesday that would end a ban on campaign contributions by riverboat gambling interests.

ews Brief: The biggest threat to Senator Cleo Fields' bid to raise boarding fees for the two Baton Rouge riverboat casinos isn't coming from the boats but from a fellow Baton Rouge lawmaker.

News Brief: The Texas Hold 'Em poker craze has spawned a hit TV show, and the next big thing could be free, legal tournaments in neighborhood bars, coast to coast.

News Brief: A federal appeals court Thursday delivered one more dose of bad news to the owners of the defunct Hudson dog track and three Chippewa tribes that had hoped to convert it into a casino.