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Las Vegas is scheduled to host 13 trade shows with a projected attendance of 10,000 or more in the second quarter, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

News Brief: Resorts Atlantic City won preliminary approval Wednesday to open its casino hotel expansion, which it plans to do with a bang July 4.

News Brief: San Joaquin County's cardrooms might gain from an initiative to put 30,000 slot machines in 16 California cardrooms and racetracks.

News Brief: Leaders in the Maryland House of Delegates hinted at passing Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s cherished slots initiative if he would bend on their proposed tax increases.

News Brief: The operators of the new Morongo Resort Casino in Cabazon, California, are expecting 10,000 visitor a day once it opens in November.

News Brief: Shinnecock Indian Nation leader has called on Congress to speed up the process of federal recognition for his and other tribes, the first step toward building a casino in Hampton Bays.

News Brief: A day after Iowa Senate leaders and racetrack casino interests settled on a gaming tax structure, the chairman of a Senate committee has refused to act on legislation sealing that deal.

Penn National Gaming reports that the West Virginia Lottery Commission has approved its request to increase the number of slot machines authorized for placement at the company's Charles Town Races by 1,000 to 4,500.

The World Poker Challenge hosted by the Reno Hilton is the latest event on the WORLD POKER TOUR to demonstrate the effects of the television show's popularity.

News Brief: Wall Street bankers are placing bets on the fast-growing tribal casino industry through the bond markets that are funding the boom.

News Brief: A federal indictment yesterday brought gambling, loan-sharking and other charges against seven Rockland residents as part of a larger investigation into racketeering and organized crime.

News Brief: The Wisconsin Supreme Court split 3-3 on a lawsuit that could have triggered closing American Indian casinos in Wisconsin. The case has been sent back to a appeals court for further consideration.

Since no ticket matched all six numbers, the Mega Million jackpot grows to an estimated $75 million for the Friday, April 2, 2004 drawing.

The mystery winners of a $239 million Mega Million jackpot are about to step forward.

Las Vegas-based slot lessor PDS Gaming Corp. announced Tuesday it earned $659,000 in 2003, reversing its $4.4 million loss in 2002. Quarterly results were not broken out.

News Brief: Some experts are blaming Connecticut’s casinos for Massachusetts’ decline in attendance and betting.

News Brief: In a country where 8% of private sector workers are in a union, around 70% of restaurant and hotel workers in Las Vegas work on a union contract, and the share is more than 90% on the all-important Strip.

Veteran gaming journalist Joe Weinert will join Spectrum Gaming Group, LLC as managing editor of its publications and online operations, the company announced Tuesday.

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians celebrates the topping-out of the new Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa with the hoisting of the highest piece of structural steel on to the resort's rooftop.