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Intertops.com has 19-year-old Fantasia Barrino from North Carolina as the 5/2 favorite to win American Idol.

City officials and the Isle of Capri casino are negotiating a deal that could double the size of the casino's hotel and bring a conference center to the riverfront.

A group of Las Vegas residents fed up with what they consider to be sexually offensive billboards plans to address the Nevada Gaming Commission when it meets in Las Vegas next week.

Thanks to a robust Chinese New Year performance on the Strip, Nevada's 349 casinos won $882.1 million from gamblers in January, up 4.4 percent from $844.9 million in January 2003, the state Gaming Control Board reported today.

A 28-count complaint has been filed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board against Albert D. Seeno Jr., who holds interests in five Nevada casinos, accusing him of associating with and catering to convicted felons.

The Nevada Commission on Tourism has begun seeing results from its first-ever national television advertising campaign.

The spread of bingo games that resemble slot machines is expected to pave the way for a day when casinos can quickly reprogram new games into existing machines from a central computer terminal.

News Brief: A proposal to allow table games at racetrack-casinos could stand while senators argue over a House-approved ban on slot machines and whether to allow new casino licenses in Iowa, according to Senate leaders.

News Brief: A bill the Minnesota House passed last year to put a casino at the Canterbury Park racetrack is being rewritten so it would produce more money for the state during the current budget period.

News Brief: Gov. Ruth Ann Minner said she was worried about Maryland's and Pennsylvania's possible decision to allow gambling, which could cost Delaware as much as $120 million in lost revenues.

ews Brief: Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is suggesting a ban on professional fund-raisers to run the gambling games and a requirement for at least 50% of the proceeds to go to the sponsoring charity.

News Brief: Concerned over recent efforts to put a tribal casino in Solano County, Supervisor Duane Kromm went to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to get a better handle on what local governments can do.

News Brief: The Washington State Legislature this week quietly sent Gov. Gary Locke a bill that would expand gambling outside of Indian casinos and the state lottery for the first time in seven years.

News Brief: The extra day in February contributed to a whopping 30.1 percent increase in gaming revenues compared with February 2003.

News Brief: After a flat 2003 that had experts wondering whether riverboat fever here had finally topped out, the Kansas City casino market is growing dramatically in 2004.

The nation's largest hotel, MGM Grand, is getting a face lift at the ripe old age of 10.

Harrah's Entertainment and MTR Gaming Group's plan to take over the Binion's Horseshoe property cleared its final known hurdles Wednesday.

News Brief: Aurora and Joliet casinos continued to see revenues decline in February, even as other Illinois casinos began to see increases.

News Brief: In the highest stakes game of poker ever played in Illinois, three finalists bidding for the state's last casino license spent Wednesday in an elaborate game of one-upmanship in the plush 54th-floor offices of a Chicago law firm.