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News Brief: The former city employee who embezzled more than $78,000 from the city and gambled it at casinos will spend the next two years in prison.

Las Vegas' sometimes uneasy relationship with sexually themed marketing renewed again Tuesday when Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates challenged a plan to spend local tourism funds to promote a pair of events linked with Playboy magazine.

News Brief: Endorsing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s call for Indian casinos to pay their ‘fair share,’ about 100 community representatives rallied at the Capitol to criticize some tribes.

News Brief: The drawn-out battle for the last casino license in Illinois takes a huge step toward a conclusion Wednesday when the final bidders compete in a high-stakes auction, where the only sure bet is that the cash-strapped state will emerge a winner.

News Brief: Waving mock pink slips, hundreds of tribal members and casino workers gathered Tuesday at the Capitol to protest a bill that would outlaw video slot machines.

News Brief: The Seminole Nation has received permission to resume their Mystic Winds Casino located at their I-40 facility.

Trustees of two trust funds of the Culinary Union Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165 have filed a lawsuit against the New Frontier hotel casino, alleging the Las Vegas casino failed to make fringe benefit contributions to the funds since July 2000.

It's been a great six weeks for the new co-owners of downtown's Golden Nugget, Tim Poster and Tom Breitling said Sunday evening.

A Clark County District Court judge this morning set aside Friday's probate sale of a parcel underneath the closed Binion's Horseshoe hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas.

News Brief: Four Inland casino tribes, a police union and three area legislators are fighting a state constitutional amendment that would allow card clubs and horse racetracks to offer slot machines.

News Brief: Detroit casino owners who want to stop slot machines at horse tracks are pushing a constitutional amendment that would ban more gambling in Michigan -- unless voters approve.

News Brief: The Ohio Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association and Beulah Park have struck a deal on revenue splits for account wagering.

News Brief: Short of a hurricane, a bad leak or some other calamity, it's hard to imagine how the value of a floating casino could drop from more than $20 million one year to $6.5 million the next.

News Brief: Long-time gaming manager Craig Ghelfi is the new chief operating officer at Detroit’s Greektown Casino, which reported a $2.3-million drop in revenues last year on gaming receipts of $325.3 million.

News Brief: A North Dakota judge has been asked to dismiss the Racing Services Inc. bankruptcy case because the wagering-company was under the control of a state-appointed receiver at the time of the filing.

News Brief: One New York State Senator says it pays for the State to consider allowing more video lottery terminals.

Chuck Di Rocco, the colorful publisher and founder of Gaming Today and a pioneer in bringing racing simulcasts to Las Vegas casinos, died Saturday morning after a long illness.

News Brief: Those who would like the opportunity to play legal blackjack, poker, craps roulette or other forms of table gambling at West Virginia race tracks will probably have to wait at least until next year.

News Brief: Federal officials this week begin an environmental review of a proposed casino outside Rohnert Park, California.

News Brief: Despite opposition to more gambling in Delaware by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner and many legislators, a development group has proposed building a 150-room hotel with 2,500 slot machines on Route 404 in Georgetown.