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News Brief: Officials from towns near Mohegan Sun, Foxwoods talk at forum in Danbury, Connecticut.

The wonder of it all apparently isn't so wondrous anymore.

News Brief: Flint has become the third southeastern Michigan city to begin speaking openly about the possibility of opening a casino within its borders as a way to boost municipal tax revenues.

ews Brief: If Dane County residents vote next week against turning the DeJope bingo hall into a casino, Ho-Chunk Nation officials say they will not come back for a second try.

News Brief: The Puyallup Tribe of Indians on Monday gained the support of the Port of Tacoma in efforts to build a third casino on reservation land.

News Brief: A former state gaming official indicted for allegedly selling poker chips claims that officials with the Gaming Division and Colorado Bureau of Investigation promised he wouldn't be charged if he resigned his post.

News Brief: Elected leaders from across Connecticut assembled in Danbury to renew their effort to block a small band of Indians from opening a casino in western Connecticut.

News Brief: Bidders on a proposed lease of Monmouth Park face likely delays in installing slot machines, due to resistance from Atlantic City casinos, said the head of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.

News Brief: With gambling becoming an ever-increasing enterprise in Rhode Island, and with the prospect of a Foxwoods-style resort casino on the horizon, Attorney General Patrick Lynch wants to tighten up the way the state regulates the gaming industry.

News Brief: A group of black business owners has purchased the long-closed Moulin Rouge property and plans to build a $200 million locals' casino resurrecting and celebrating the historic hotel.

News Brief: Stopping just short of calling each other liars, the players on two sides of the debate over a proposed Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick are accusing each other of manipulating statistics and making misleading claims.

News Brief: Tens of thousands of colorful casino chips, representing every era of gambling and every corner of the globe, were on display at Copa Casino on Saturday afternoon.

News Brief: State regulators inspected fewer than half of Indiana's charity bingo games in the past two years, despite several high-profile investigations into cash-skimming.

News Brief: Vernon Downs will be one of the first local businesses to take advantage of the county smoking waiver.

News Brief: The New Jersey Racing Commission has scheduled a vote to allow off-track betting in the state during its meeting on February 18 at Freehold Raceway harness track.

ews Brief: More than a month into the Kentucky General Assembly, gambling has taken a back seat to Gov. Ernie Fletcher's proposed budget.

News Brief: Ambiguity shrouds the future of a California state fund that reimburses counties for expenses tied to American Indian casinos.

News Brief: After the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state’s gambling tax structure last week, legislative leaders will regroup today to try to forge some type of agreement with the state’s gambling industry.

News Brief: The groundbreaking for the new Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Biloxi will have a lot of Mississippi flavor.

News Brief: Matt Goscky -- a regular at the Borgata, Atlantic City's newest casino -- is young, bets big and loses steadily. He might be just what that city needs.