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News Brief: The Tropicana Casino and Resort is making horse racing the theme for its latest promotion to draw customers.

News Brief: Money from Minnesota Indian tribes fighting to maintain their lucrative monopoly on casino gambling made up nearly one-fourth of campaign contributions to the Senate Democratic-Farmer-Labor majority last year.

News Brief: Judge Eugene Wedoff delayed ruling on any Emerald Casino bankruptcy settlement.

News Brief: Gambling consultants presented casino proposals to two Navajo committees.

Despite strong growth in 2003 at the Las Vegas Sands, owner and operator of The Venetian, Grand Canal Shops and Sands Macau, net income faltered in the fourth quarter on weak table play, depreciation and interest expenses, officials said Tuesday.

News Brief: Plymouth Mayor Gary Cook is worried that local senior citizens may be gambling away their rent money, and he wants the park department to stop providing buses for trips to area casinos.

A national emergency program that has been used to help hundreds of former Binion's Horseshoe employees is ending, but another 400 out-of-work casino workers will still be eligible for help, a Nevada Partners official said.

It looks like Janet Jackson's breast isn't the only thing that won't be making a return appearance on next year's television broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIX.

News Brief: Construction is expected to begin this week at one of the New York race tracks that will offer video lottery terminals.

News Brief: Football fans bet a record $81.2 million in Nevada on the Feb. 1 Super Bowl, and casinos won a hefty $12.4 million, state gambling regulators reported on Wednesday.

The video gaming machines from Sierra Design Group have been activated at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Hard Rock Hotel and Casino owner Peter Morton has signed a deal to partner with Hollywood nightlife developer Brent Bolthouse on the opening of a new yet-to-be named nightclub at his Las Vegas hotel.

William Bigelow has submitted his resignation as president of the Las Vegas Hilton as the property's prospective buyer makes plans to announce its choice to head the resort after the sale closes.

Station Casinos Inc. awarded Perini Building Co. a $63 million construction contract to expand Green Valley Ranch Station, a four-diamond casino resort.

The Castaways is unlikely to reopen, Las Vegas casino industry executives predicted on Monday after the 49-year-old hotel-casino was sold to Vestin Mortgage, the property's biggest creditor.

Las Vegas Sun columnist, Jeff German, thinks that Las Vegas and the NFL need to step away from their squabbling.

Once a top priority of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, legislation to prohibit Nevada sports books from taking bets on amateur athletic events did not figure prominently Monday in a discussion of college sports reform.

A California man has agreed to settle Securities and Exchange Commission claims that he defrauded investors in a bogus celebrity-themed Las Vegas resort and casino.

Las Vegas Sands Inc., owner of The Venetian resort and the Grand Canal Shops, reported Q4 cash flow of $63.4 million, an increase of 8.7 percent from Q4 2002. But net income of $2.6 million was down from $6 million in Q4 2002.

News Brief: Some Ohio charities beleive that the return they saw from Rittman's Michael Moneypenny, a travelling casino, was too low considering the success of the events.