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News Brief: Hotel and casino operators are reporting higher profits as tourism and conventioneer business accelerates.

News Brief: Fuzzy Zoeller, the champion golfer, has teamed with Donald Trump in the Trump Casino bid to win the contract for the gambling complex to be built between French Lick and West Baden Springs.

News Brief: A new delay in building the FireKeepers Casino in Emmett Township may not be stirring strong public reaction.

News Brief: As Governor Schwarzenegger negotiates new casino compacts with tribes, local officials around the state are hoping the new agreements will come with the legal tools and political will to make them enforceable.

News Brief: An investigation to clear the air about the Illinois Gaming Board's decision to route a casino to Rosemont is on hold once again.

News Brief: The New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling is launching a major campaign designed to help problem gamblers.

Slot Expert John Robison answers your slot and video poker questions.

News Brief: The general manager of the Wyandotte Nation’s casino in Kansas City is free on bond after being arrested Thursday.

Shovels of dirt were turned at the groundbreaking of Coast Casinos newest property, South Coast, in Las Vegas.

The Nevada Gaming Commission gave final approval Thursday to a Southern California man to reopen the Regency Casino in Laughlin but warned him to adhere to Nevada's strict accounting regulations.

World Series of Poker kicks off the first of 32 public games today at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas.

News Brief: The Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pirates and Equitable Resources don't like the idea of having a slot-machine casino as their neighbor.

News Brief: Retiring U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell says he is strongly considering conducting oversight hearings on a request by two Oklahoma Indian tribes to build a casino in Colorado.

News Brief: Low-key executive Steve Hillard's controversial proposal to build a Colorado tribal casino has ended any hope he may have had of remaining inconspicuous.

News Brief: Legislative leaders have urged the California Supreme Court to keep off the ballot a proposed initiative that threatens the tribes' state monopoly on Nevada-style casinos.

News Brief: More than 20 years after they last considered the issue, town meeting members will have a chance to once again weigh in on whether casino gambling should come to the Berkshires.

The acting General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission has issued a letter to Multimedia Games that their development agreement regarding the WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma constitutes a ‘management contract.’

American Casino & Entertainment reports net revenues for 2003 amounted to $262.8 million, an increase of $12.8 million, or 5.1%, over 2002.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.

News Brief: After their bid for the state's last casino license was rejected, Waukegan officials say more than 4,000 residents have joined a postcard protest against the Illinois Gaming Board's decision.