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News Brief: The Mississippi Tax Commission wants legislators to clarify whether the agency has the authority to calculate casino tax bills and to decide whether free-play credits casinos give gamblers are taxable.

News Brief: Pro-casino supporters rallied Thursday and are confident that voters will say yes Tuesday and allow the Ho-Chunk Nation to make the DeJope bingo hall a full-blown casino.

News Brief: Former Kentucky Governor and Airdrie Stud owner Brereton Jones called for an amendment to the state's constitution allowing for full-scale casino gambling only at the state's eight racetracks.

News Brief: Negotiations on new California Indian gambling agreements appeared to be gathering momentum with a growing number of the state's most successful tribes on the brink of joining the talks.

News Brief: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger filled the long-vacant chairmanship of the California's Gambling Control Commission on Thursday with a former Wilson administration official and police chief.

Friday the thirteenth was far from unlucky for the international visitor to the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino who won $10.2 million on Nevada Megabucks.

As part of a new marketing campaign featuring the incomparable ‘Loose Slot Louie,’ Bally's management is loosening more than 1,000 slots in the company's Louisiana riverboat casino.

Slot maker Sierra Design Group this week averted a move by Missouri regulators to revoke its gambling license in that state by shutting down an Internet site that regulators believe offered illegal gambling.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge this week approved the conversion of the Castaways bankruptcy case to a Chapter 7 liquidation from a Chapter 11 reorganization.

News Brief: Tropicana Casino and Resort plans to open its entire $245 million expansion project, including the fatally flawed parking garage, by the end of September, Aztar Corp. said Wednesday.

News Brief: Indianapolis police have investigated a car wash they say is a front for an illegal gambling operation, but the business continues to operate and no one has been charged with a crime.

News Brief: A Madison, Wisconsin, woman believes gambling played a significant role in her husband's death.

News Brief: An apparently illegal poker tournament at the Blackhawk Country Club has shuffled up residents in this exclusive community and has prompted police to refresh the club and game participants on the laws of gambling.

ews Brief: The Hazel Crest Village Board Tuesday rejected a resolution to support gaming in neighboring Country Club Hills, according to a village spokeswoman.

News Brief: Kentucky’s racetracks have told state Representative Larry Clark, speaker pro tem, that they would be open to casinos at non-racetrack sites as long as the tracks can operate casinos as well.

News Brief: Two California institutions of higher learning are planning certificate programs in gambling to prepare students for jobs in one of the few growth industries in California: Indian casinos.

News Brief: State Rep. Andrea L. Stillman is proposing an allocation of $500,000 for a gambling impact study in 2005.

News Brief: A proposed constitutional amendment to allow non-Indian casinos in New York ties into a high-level strategy to leverage Indian casinos into the Catskills, top officials said Wednesday.

News Brief: A $25-million expansion project at Charles Town Races has received unanimous approval from the Jefferson County Planning Commission.