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News Brief: Illinois Gaming Board Chairman Elzie Higginbottom said Wednesday that he has no intention of backing down from a decision to award a casino to Rosemont.

News Brief: A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a spin of the roulette wheel.

News Brief: As Nebraska senators close in on a casino proposal for the November ballot, leaders of the pro-gambling effort say an Omaha casino isn't a foregone conclusion.

News Brief: U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson denied the tribe's request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the shutting down of Wyandotte 7th Street Casino.

News Brief: Iowa Senate Republicans unveiled a plan that includes higher tax rates and a one-time fee for all state-licensed casinos totaling $160 million.

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

A pedestrian bridge linking two concourses at McCarran International Airport would enable the airport's two busiest airlines to expand operations without inconveniencing passengers, the airport's top executive said Tuesday.

Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., is working to create a tourism advocate position in the Department of Homeland Security.

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $90 million jackpot, so the jackpot for the Friday, April 9, 2004 drawing grows to an estimated $105 million.

News Brief: Pro-gambling lawmakers scrambled yesterday to assemble a significant tax package that could win approval from Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and free the administration's slots bill for a long-sought vote in the House of Delegates.

News Brief: Reversing a vote taken last month, the Cecil County Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 last night to oppose casino-style slots in their county.

News Brief: Once word got out that J.Lo's mom, Guadalupe Lopez, won $2.4 million playing an Atlantic City slot machine, gamblers flocked to the winning one-armed bandit, hoping lightning would strike twice.

News Brief: A Pataki administration proposal to unite two Wisconsin tribes behind a casino development in the Catskill Park appears dead.

News Brief: The CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority says Atlantic City's casino industry agreed to terms Tuesday on a deal to subsidize horse-racing purses in exchange for postponing pursuit of racetrack slot machines.

News Brief: Donald Trump is teaming up with credit card issuer Bank One for the Trump Rewards Visa card.

News Brief: The chairman of the New Jersey Assembly Budget Committee wants to bring sports betting to Atlantic City.

News Brief: Anchorage poker star Perry Green has talked leaders of the state House into introducing a bill that could let Green start an international casino in Anchorage.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused without comment to consider a Placer County citizens group's challenge of Thunder Valley Casino.

News Brief: The Tulalip Tribe plans to build a shopping outlet that would connect economically and geographically to the Tulalip Casino.

News Brief: Some Lake Stevens residents are upset that a casino got put into their neighborhood thanks to a loophole.