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News Brief: Dozens of Cook County suburbs can't wait for the $18 million-plus they stand to get from a Rosemont casino after it opens, and they plan on sending that message today to critics of the project.

Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson's long-planned second megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip will have 53 stories and will top Steve Wynn's Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino across the street by 105 feet, according to an architectural draft of the project submitted to Clark County planners.

ews Brief: The Isleta Casino Resort has pulled a controversial TV ad that promoted gambling as a financial solution to people who are short on cash or deeply in debt.

News Brief: Every day, tour buses bring hundreds of people to Mississippi Coast casinos.

News Brief: Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and legislative leaders remained optimistic that a settlement on tax issues with the gaming industry can be reached in the next two weeks.

News Brief: Since Bucks County is rich compared with the rest of Pennsylvania, most county homeowners would see only the minimum 10 to 15 percent cut in school property tax if gambling is legalized, according to a new study.

News Brief: Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff received $10 million in previously undisclosed payments from a public relations executive whom he recommended for work with wealthy Indian tribes that operate casinos, congressional investigators have determined.

News Brief: Assemblymen Tim Leslie and Dave Cox have sent letters urging to postpone work on the Highway 50 interchange until lawsuits involving the interchange and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians’ proposed casino are resolved.

News Brief: With the state's 10th license in Rosemont's hands, the General Assembly is expected to revive the idea of adding more casinos in Illinois.

Just a few weeks shy of its second anniversary, the troubled Neonopolis shopping and entertainment center still looks much as did when it opened on May 3, 2002: a largely desolate space that's plagued by too few businesses drawing far too few customers.

Nevada's unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in February, remaining at a three-year low as the state continued to lead the nation in job growth, Nevada officials reported Monday.

Harrah's Entertainment will reopen Binion's Horseshoe Casino and Hotel on April 1, in time to host the 35th annual World Series of Poker.

Major road construction projects that interfere with the easy flow of traffic frustrate big locals operators like Station Casinos.

News Brief: Seasoned gamblers have learned how to milk the system but their maneuvers may soon become obsolete as computerised systems begin to automate the way casinos track, rate and reward patrons.

The jackpot for the Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Mega Millions drawing is expected to grow to $63 million.

News Brief: The deadline for Fair Grounds to file a reorganization plan in bankruptcy court was moved from March 29 to April 15. The track has also filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana.

News Brief: As the battle over casino-style gambling heats up in Maryland, problem gambling groups and counseling services are waging their own fight for a piece of the action.

ews Brief: Some counties may be missing out on thousands of tax dollars a year from gambling machine companies that supply Oklahoma's American Indian casinos.

Downtown developers and operators are a wrangling lot, but on one thing they agree: The patchwork, crazy-quilt ownership of many downtown Las Vegas land parcels poses a serious impediment to revitalization efforts.

News Brief: Residents miss the days when Capay Valley was a quiet enclave for organic farmers and nature lovers before the Cache Creek casino was built.