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Columnist Jeff German wonders, if after all these years of operating in mediocrity, a new attitude is emerging in downtown Las Vegas.

Internet gaming whiz Jay Cohen was released Monday from the minimum-security Nellis Federal Prison Camp.

A man was nearly shot in the head while trying to fend off robbers in the parking lot of a Las Vegas casino.

News Brief: Efforts to strengthen the message to Tennessee lottery players about the dangers of problem gambling failed to get a favorable recommendation yesterday from the legislature's Lottery Oversight Committee.

The American Gaming Association and the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling are updating their websites in an effort to get their messages out.

Standard & Poor's says Las Vegas is anticipated to outperform other gaming markets as it outpaces last year's continued recovery from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

News Brief: Wapello County's newly formed River Hills Riverboat Commission held its first official meeting Monday morning.

News Brief: Senator Roy Herron insists that Tennessee’s charitable gambling law had to be airtight or the cheaters would seep through and abuse the system.

News Brief: A longtime opponent of expanded gambling in Kansas on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow operation of five casinos.

News Brief: Northwest Indiana's five casinos took in more cash than ever before in February, with gamblers dropping a record-setting $106 million at machines and tables.

News Brief: The year-old idea of auctioning casino licenses has been revived by Pennsylvania lawmakers who say the state could earn an extra $2 billion.

News Brief: Fall River City Council President William F. Whitty says he expects his colleagues to support his resolution calling for legalized casino gambling and the construction of two casinos in Massachusetts.

News Brief: Lacking a union, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods employees can appeal if they think they've been treated unfairly.

News Brief: A California gambling authority told a group of satellite wagering representatives Monday that he believes a racetrack-sponsored slot machine initiative has little or no chance of passage should it qualify for the state's November ballot.

Harrah's Entertainment crews were scrambling Monday at Binion's Horseshoe to wrap up $1 million in improvements and ready the downtown landmark for its planned April 1 reopening.

ews Brief: Two Iowa Senate committees will debate a complex gambling bill, which in its current form would allow table games at racetrack casinos but ban state officials from issuing new licenses for riverboat-style casinos.

News Brief: Rural areas and out-of-state Indian tribes will be the losers if state lawmakers allow any expansion of gambling, according to tribal leaders with the Upper Sioux Community.

American travelers and the businesses that serve them spent more money in 2003 than in any 12-month period since 2000, the last full year before widespread economic troubles and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, disrupted global travel, a new federal report says.

A selection of news and views from Atlantic City this week.

News Brief: Governor Rod Blagojevich says that the Illinois Gaming Board isn't up to the task of thoroughly investigating the attempt to put a casino in Rosemont.