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News Brief: Two lawsuits filed by opponents of a video-gambling truck stop in Marrero will be heard in tandem in state court this week, after a judge agreed Monday with defendants that the cases share essential facts and have the same aim.

News Brief: The House sponsor of legislation to bring casino gambling to Kentucky said yesterday the bill is unlikely to pass during this session of the General Assembly.

News Brief: Tim Eyman plans to offset his new proposal to slash Washington state property taxes with $400 million from expanding non-tribal gambling to include electronic slot machines.

News Brief: $35 billion will be spent this year on legal gambling in New York, wagered on everything from lottery games to video-slot machines and horse racing, a Queens senator reported yesterday.

News Brief: A Kaukauna man who said he was going to ‘invest $20’ on his way home from work Thursday ended up winning $1.6 million.

Lawyers were scrambling late Friday night to salvage the proposed sale of Binion's Horseshoe to MTR Gaming Group and the World Series of Poker to Harrah's Entertainment.

News Brief: Nevada health officials are still searching for clues to a virus that has sickened more than 100 guests — most of them visitors from Hawaii — of the California Hotel and Casino since Dec. 3.

News Brief: There was good news and bad news last week for Northern Nevada’s struggling resort casinos.

News Brief: A move by Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry that could help the ailing horse industry isn't expected to hurt area casinos.

News Brief: County supervisors will decide Tuesday when to begin recruiting people to sit on a committee that will decide how to spend as much as $400,000 of Indian gaming revenue in Tulare County.

Paramount Parks will extend its "Star Trek" franchise beyond the confines of the Las Vegas Hilton in the spring. Officials disclosed today that Paramount has agreed to sponsor a Las Vegas Monorail Co. train and the Hilton monorail station.

News Brief: The Hopi tribe will vote on whether the reservation will have a casino -- or whether they will lease slots out to another tribe as allowed by Arizona gaming law.

The Plaza hotel-casino has filed a civil lawsuit and the Nevada Gaming Control Board is pursuing criminal charges against a former slot shift supervisor for allegedly falsifying $125,000 in jackpot tickets.

News Brief: Instant Racing had its best month ever at Arkansas’ Oaklawn Park when patrons poured $5.82 million through the machines in February.

It's only one billboard for a city of more than 1 million people. But to Carol O'Hare, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, it's also a significant moral victory.

The sale of Binion's Horseshoe to West Virginia-based MTR Gaming Group is expected to close Tuesday despite a last-minute $1.805 million bid on a small piece of property underneath the Fremont Street property, a Harrah's Entertainment Inc. spokesman said Sunday.

News Brief: As community after community scrambles to keep from being one of the potential sites for a casino-style slots den, leaders in the Northeast Maryland county of Cecil say they would welcome the devices if the state chooses to legalize them.

A quarter-century after it opened, the Barbary Coast is sitting on a prized piece of real estate with perhaps the most potential for Strip redevelopment, analysts agreed Friday.

News Brief: State Senator DiAnna Schimek unveiled her compromise proposal to ask voters to authorize two casinos in Nebraska.

News Brief: The former executive director of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority scoffed at allegations by the McGreevey administration of spending abuses and questionable accounting practices at the cash-rich state agency during his regime.