News - Page 1824

News Brief: The battle to build a horse track at the Michigan State Fairgrounds has gotten personal.

News Brief: The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday set a timetable to decide whether to support a proposal for a riverboat gambling casino complex in Lemay.

News Brief: A seasonal outdoor events area the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa soon will start building.

News Brief: A New Jersey agency gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an $86 million deal that will bail out the state’s financially strapped horse racing tracks and prevent them from having video slot machines in competition with Atlantic City casinos.

News Brief: One of the suspects arrested in an alleged French Quarter drug and gambling operation has had his bond doubled to $300,000.

News Brief: The chairman of the House Gaming Committee said he expects Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and Pearl River Community College will offer courses in casino and resort management.

News Brief: The author of one of the gambling bills being heard in the Minnesota Legislature pulled his measure before a key committee vote but still pledged to get the bill to the House floor.

News Brief: The author of one of the gambling bills being heard in the Minnesota Legislature pulled his measure before a key committee vote but still pledged to get the bill to the House floor.

News Brief: Illinois senators could be mulling another move to expand gambling in the state, a key lawmaker said Tuesday.

News Brief: Twenty-four-hour gambling has proven lucrative for Southeastern Indiana's riverboat casinos over the first three months of the year.

News Brief: Indian tribes that own casinos filed a suit Tuesday, urging that the California Supreme Court thwart a proposed ballot initiative that threatens the tribes' state monopoly on slot machines.

McCarran International Airport, seeing evidence of a public that is increasingly willing to travel, recorded its best-ever month in March with more than 3.6 million arriving and departing travelers.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday in Las Vegas his organization's recent and ongoing crackdown on so-called indecent radio and television broadcasts is meant to protect the public and does not violate the free speech rights of broadcasters or American citizens.

News Brief: Even as they celebrated the 15th anniversary of the start-up of the Kentucky Lottery, lottery officials acknowledged an uncertain future yesterday.

News Brief: The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that a lottery winner owes $866,621 for selling the remaining rights to his annual lottery payments.

Two Albuquerque-area Indian pueblos have given $71,500 to bolster a statewide fund for gambling addiction treatment that had dwindled.

News Brief: Financially troubled Fair Grounds has submitted a Chapter 11 reorganization plan that calls for the facility to be auctioned through United States bankruptcy court.

News Brief: Casino owner Don Barden is joining a growing list of entrepreneurs who want to operate a horsetrack with video lottery terminals in Metro Detroit.

The World Poker Tour Championship attracted 343 players to Bellagio for a record-smashing $8.6 million prize pool, the highest ever in tournament poker.

News Brief: State officials who hoped a new racino at Vernon Downs would help close New York's budget gap may find themselves waiting yet again.