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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.

Southern Nevadans concerned about sexually suggestive billboards showed up at Thursday's Nevada Gaming Commission meeting, hoping their anger about the larger-than-life ads inspires regulators to reign in casino billboard excess.

BingoTV is a live bingo game that broadcasts every Wednesday evening on the Dish Network satellite service. So far, the program is a success.

News Brief: An anti-slots legislator says he will seek to amend a budget bill that is up for a vote today to freeze the number of electronic video gambling devices in commercial bingo halls at the current level.

News Brief: The New York Racing Association would be restructured and required to pay back about $14 million taken from horse owners' accounts under a bill proposed by a key state senator.

News Brief: Louisiana’s three racinos have produced more than $40 million for horsemen.

The Nevada Gaming Commission has imposed an agreed-upon $1 million fine on The Venetian for rigging contests and violating state gaming regulations.

News Brief: Kathy Peavy got to live out the fantasy of millions of gamblers Thursday when she got a free pull on nearly 900 slot machines for winning a slot tournament last weekend.

News Brief: In Indiana, the March Madness office pools popping up in workplaces are illegal, according to the Chief of staff with the Marion County Prosecutor's office.

News Brief: Mississippi coast casinos had their second best month in history in February, thanks to a combination of an improving economy, snowbirds, Mardi Gras and George Strait.

News Brief: Magna Entertainment is angry that they’ve waited for more than 18 months for Michigan to approve its application to operate a thoroughbred and harness track in Romulus.

News Brief: A bill to create a casino partnership among the state and two northern Minnesota Indian tribes narrowly passed a House committee Wednesday.

News Brief: The Newport County Chamber of Commerce and the Preservation Society of Newport County have joined the chorus of opposition from within the tourism industry to opening a casino in Rhode Island.

News Brief: The Gaming Revenue Act of 2004 is one of four gambling initiatives aiming to get on the November ballot. The initiative could allow slot machines at 11 card rooms and five racetracks statewide.

News Brief: Coachella Valley residents and workers Tuesday returned to Sacramento to criticize working conditions at the Agua Caliente and Spa Resort casinos and to threaten the tribe’s gambling initiative if it goes to the ballot.