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A St. Paul promotions company has filed a lawsuit claiming that its contracts were improperly canceled after the suicide of lottery director George Andersen.

News Brief: Despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that Interstate Industrial Corp. and Drywall Corp. were well connected to organized crime, they will likely be granted a non-gaming casino service industry license.

News Brief: Caesars Entertainment is making a high-priced and high-profile push for a proposal to construct a casino near the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota.

News Brief: Downs at Albuquerque is ready for the next phase of track expansion, a $3 million project that would make room for an additional 300 slot machines at the track's casino.

News Brief: A bill that would have allowed Magna Entertainment to build the track and expand simulcast gambling at other horse and dog tracks appears to be dead as Florida legislators move into the final two weeks of the session.

To build or not to build, that is a key question facing the gaming industry, analysts said Monday.

News Brief: Discussions between Fair Grounds and Churchill Downs Inc. for the Louisville company to acquire the New Orleans track have stalled.

The state's public safety commissioner is looking into allegations that a state police major has been playing the slot machines at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in violation of his own orders.

News Brief: The Tennessee lottery will launch Powerball on April 19 with more than 4,000 retailers statewide ready to roll with the game.

While casino authorization in Nebraska isn't a done deal yet, at least one Las Vegas interest is looking ahead to the state's first gambling establishment.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $90 million.

Critics say last week's double-or-nothing gamble by Londoner Ashley Revell at the Plaza hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas sent the wrong message about responsible gambling.

The coming expansion of gaming throughout the eastern United States will be charted at the 8th Annual Mid-Atlantic Gaming Congress.

News Brief: Mega Millions has become megapopular since its launch in New York two years ago.

Poker players and casino industry insiders hope that this year's World Series of Poker at Binion's Horseshoe will be a turning point in the storied tournament's 35-year history.

News Brief: Indiana's Belterra casino has launched a new ad campaign touting its newly built 300-room hotel tower, which is set to open May 1.

News Brief: Year-end figures show that Atlantic City casino revenue and hotel occupancy rates rose in 2003, even though the number of visitors dropped 2.9 percent to 32.2 million.

When members of the international broadcasting community gathered in Las Vegas last April for the National Association of Broadcasters' 2003 convention, their industry was largely focused on the United States' then-new war against Iraq.

The Southern Nevada Index of Leading Economic Indicators slipped to 128.90 in March, down slightly from the previous month, though nine of the 10 net-weighted categories of data increased from a year ago.

News Brief: The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal former Indiana state trooper Ben Endres, who was fired for refusing to work at a casino.