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News Brief: Ben won $55,000 one recent evening, but in his tireless ambition for the $2.5 million world championship, this mild-mannered college graduate has become an outlaw in hiding and a twisting thorn in the side of Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general.

News Brief: The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians will take a few years before opening a casino at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa, according to tribal officials.

News Brief: The hopes of thousands of Iowans are stacking up like a Christmas wish list as the Legislature continues a high-stakes debate over whether to expand gambling and allow additional casinos in the state.

News Brief: The Gun Lake Band of Pottawatomi Indians wants a casino in Wayland Township and a recent decision by the federal government has put the project one step closer to reality.

News Brief: Texas Department of Public Safety troopers busted a gambling casino in North Austin Wednesday night.

News Brief: National Collegiate Athletic Association officials say they will not place a men's basketball tournament event in Oregon as long as it has sports betting games run by the state lottery.

News Brief: Aaron W. Meisner sees the bills aimed at bringing slots gambling to Maryland as monsters.

ews Brief: Legislators in Maryland and Pennsylvania are racing to legalize gambling, convinced that thousands of their residents are crossing borders every day to gamble away millions in New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware and New York.

News Brief: Controversial video-slot machines could be banned countywide if Seminole County commissioners adopt a new gambling ordinance Tuesday.

News Brief: In a new campaign, Grand Casino looks at the other side of the door, featuring stories about what casino-goers have done with their winnings.

A selection of news and views from inside the gaming industry this week.

News Brief: Some lawmakers are saying that it’s time to rein in a 1999 law are giving Illinois racetracks a huge tax break.

News Brief: Isle of Capri Casinos officials remain confident in their final $518 million bid for the state's 10th riverboat gambling license despite skeptics' concerns the last-minute, $167-million jump in bidding was over the top.

Gaggles of visitors stroll up and down the Strip, agog over the spectacle, especially features such as the fountains, the tropical landscaping, and the assorted pools and water features.

News Brief: The Caribbean vibe as seen in will be key to Isle of Capri's success after landing a license in Rosemont last week, according to the firm's marketing gurus.

Las Vegas is hot again, and not just temperature-wise.

News Brief: Bernie Goldstein, who now heads the Isle of Capri riverboat chain hoping to build in Rosemont, was fined $255,000 by the Illinois Gaming Board in 1993. A former Illinois official says that he is still unfit to be involved with an Illinois casino.

News Brief: Leaders of the Seneca-Cayugas of Oklahoma went to Albany, New York, this week to press an offer to settle their share of the Cayuga Indian land claim in exchange for state approval to build a casino in the Catskills or Rochester.

Nevada gaming regulators forced a three-year-old West Sahara Avenue bar to turn off its slot machines Thursday afternoon after the club's owner failed to pay his quarterly slot licensing fees on time.

A battle brewing between Strip kingpins Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson revolves around parking spaces.