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News Brief: A federal judge Tuesday denied a request to prevent the Chickasaw Nation's new gaming compact with the state from taking effect.

News Brief: The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma unveiled a series of concessions that it would make in exchange for an out-of-court agreement to build a $25 million high-stakes bingo hall in Aurelius.

Local fiscal concerns are touching off another war between the states for gaming revenues.

Travelscape founders Tim Poster and Tom Breitling, the new owners of the Golden Nugget who built their reputations in the high-tech business, are again banking their fortunes on technology.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows and a Council Bluffs racetrack would be taxed at a higher rate than other state-regulated casinos under a new tax plan proposed by Senate leaders Wednesday.

Southwest Airlines, the busiest commercial passenger carrier at McCarran International Airport, will add five new daily round-trip flights to Las Vegas beginning in June.

For the hundreds of folks staffing the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Gold Spike and Western casinos this morning, the sentiment about their hotels' former owner was clear. Jackie Gaughan has not been forgotten.

Barrick Gaming Corp. executives took control of the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Western and Gold Spike hotel-casinos shortly after midnight this morning.

Government officials have declined to release details of a landmark ruling on Internet gambling by the World Trade Organization.

News Brief: The integrity and future of the Illinois Gaming Board were bluntly called into question Wednesday.

News Brief: Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until it dissolved in 1991 says he no longer has a low regard for Las Vegas.

News Brief: The gambling-phobic NCAA may wince, but that home of the Final Four is Las Vegas, the neon asylum at the heart of March Madness.

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

News Brief: Washington State is now facing two of the largest efforts to expand gambling since the late 1990s but no effort to help problem gamblers.

News Brief: Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell is pushing a measure that would limit or prohibit agreements that require tribes to share gambling revenues with states.

ews Brief: Nebraska legislative leaders may decide as early as today whether to give a casino gambling amendment ‘superpriority’ status so it would have a chance of passage this session.

The jackpot for Mega Millions drawing for Friday, March 26, 2004 grows to an estimated $53 million.

News Brief: The average casino payroll is more diverse than the U.S. work force, according to an industry study released Tuesday.

ews Brief: Kentucky legislators claim greed and resistance by the horse racing and breeding industry put a casino bill on the shelf for the 2004 session. Industry officials disagree with that perspective.

News Brief: Six former employees of Cache Creek Indian Bingo and Casino accused of embezzling $374,000 by manipulating a card game pleaded ‘no contest’ at Yolo County Superior Court.