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Three weeks after closing, the Las Vegas’ Castaways is generating interest from prospective buyers.

n the complicated deal surrounding Binion’s Horseshoe, MTR Gaming Group would buy the property, but Harrah's Entertainment would operate it initially as soon as March.

News Brief: The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is holding a job fair Feb. 26-28 in preparation for its April opening.

News Brief: Contrary to the contentions of some critics of the proposed Indian casino, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that many of the 136 job opportunities it cites in casinos around the country pay well above California's minimum of $6.75 an hour.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation's search for a site for its fourth Wisconsin casino will go on, tribal officials say.

News Brief: “The private Order of Fleas club in Easton, Pennsylvania, concealed an $8.4 million illegal gambling operation that involved payoffs, kickbacks and money laundering schemes.

News Brief: A move afoot to bring casino gambling to Alabama would put the state at risk for a wide range of social problems, according to a study by the Alabama Policy Institute.

News Brief: The Mississippi Coast casinos won $109.9 million in January, thanks to the start of snowbird season.

News Brief: Kansas convenience store owners are objecting to being left out of new gaming proposals.

News Brief: Wood County commissioners are expected to act on proposed amendments to the county's video lottery moratorium.

News Brief: As he stepped to the podium Thursday morning to ‘inject a little realism’ into the inaugural Northern Nevada Gaming Summit at Harrah’s Reno, the audience of 200 had no idea just how real Michael Meczka was going to get.

News Brief: Now that this year's gambling bill is ready for an all-day debate Thursday by the Iowa House, amendments are being drafted furiously and lawmakers are being lobbied heavily.

With the excitement growing in anticipation of Friday's Mega Millions drawing, forecasters today revised the estimated jackpot upward to $222 million.

In the end, Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas is being sold not to Harrah's Entertainment, but to MTR Gaming Group.

News Brief: After conceding that Dane County residents had rejected his tribe's bid to turn the DeJope bingo hall into a casino, tribal president George Lewis says the Ho-Chunk Nation will refocus its attention on developing the land around the facility.

News Brief: Bills allowing video-gambling at horse racing tracks could cost Michigan more than $13 million a year because tribal casinos may no longer need to share slot-machine revenues with the state.

News Brief: A bill allowing horse racetracks to offer the same electronic gaming machines that tribal casinos currently can, including Class 2 games, pull-tab and bingo has passed the Oklahoma Senate.

News Brief: A Connecticut senator is seeking to eliminate a grant program that helps Hartford-area workers commute to jobs at Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, arguing it violates a state labor law.

News Brief: A national antigambling coalition is calling for a moratorium on Indian casinos in a bid to derail plans by dozens of other American Indian tribes to roll out giant gambling resorts.

News Brief: With good road access and proximity to a large city, Danbury is seen as a good spot for a new casino.