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News Brief: The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians named Ron Olson, an American Indian, to head up its casino operations.

News Brief: Despite a $20 million subsidy deal, horse racing supporters are pushing for a 2006 vote on a constitutional amendment to allow racetrack slot machines when the casino subsidy deal expires.

Despite the bling-bling diamond rings, model-studded parties and celebrity posses on display in abundance, most of the nearly 90,000 people in town for this week's Men's Apparel Guild in California trade show came to Las Vegas seeking new ways to grow and improve their businesses.

News Brief: After its second major rewrite of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s gambling proposal, a Senate committee approved last night a plan to permit 15,500 slot machines at three racetracks and three tourist destinations in Maryland.

News Brief: Gov. Phil Bredesen says it is virtually impossible that Tennessee would have casino gambling anytime soon.

News Brief: Live horse racing would return to the Birmingham Race Course if it wins the right to provide video gambling, track magnate Milton McGregor plans to announce today.

News Brief: A second member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives claimed he was threatened over his opposition to a gaming bill pending in the House.

A powerful Washington lobbyist persuaded four newly wealthy Indian gaming tribes to pay their firms more than $45 million over the past three years for lobbying and public affairs work.

News Brief: Iberia Parish is considering putting the video poker question on the fall ballot.

Culinary Union officials sent a letter Monday to Nevada gaming regulators charging that the themed-restaurant operator's business record raises questions about his suitability for licensing as a Nevada casino operator.

The power of the Las Vegas casino business is driving gaming industry stocks to near-record heights, industry experts said Monday.

News Brief: It was a day for legislative rules as the sound of impasse scraped noisily across the chamber floor on Monday.

News Brief: Proposals to remove the $500 loss limit on casinos or to raise taxes on the riverboats have run aground in the Missouri Senate.

News Brief: Don Barden has been on a roll, gathering plaques and praise across the country. But he still doesn't have the thing he most wanted: a casino in Detroit.

News Brief: The prospect of a new ownership and expansion at Lincoln Park and the proposal to build a West Warwick casino have raised concerns about the state's oversight of gambling.

News Brief: A fiberglass slide that winds through a rock-like structure being constructed for a pool at the Seminole tribe's Hard Rock Cafe Casino caught fire today.

News Brief: Several lawmakers will try to change the casino taxes and fees imposed by the Iowa gambling bill. Other amendments oppose the number of casino licenses to be added.

News Brief: The Indiana Senate stripped $17 million earmarked for the horseracing industry from a bill yesterday.

News Brief: Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said last night that the Ocean Downs harness track will come out of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s proposal to legalize slot machines in Maryland.

News Brief: Washington casinos focus on bringing in Asians, who make up a higher percentage of gamblers, casino workers and problem gamblers than the rest of the population.