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Michael Gaughan, chairman of Coast Resorts, was honored during a Temple Beth Shalom reception at Coast's Suncoast hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Sunday.

News Brief: Susanne Way has spent most of her adult life working and playing casinos. She loves gambling but also has concerns about the social impact of expanded gambling in her town.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Unable or unwilling to raise the money required to maintain her casino bankroll, Binion's Horseshoe owner Becky Binion Behnen agreed Saturday to keep her casino closed.

Major Las Vegas gaming operators, faced with wage increases, higher taxes and the war in Iraq, finished 2003 with cash flow virtually unchanged from the year before.

Mountaineer Park, Inc. has reached a new, five-year agreement with the union representing its pari-mutuel clerks, and a new, three-year agreement with the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association governing live racing and simulcasting.

Deputy U.S. marshals entered Binion's Horseshoe late Friday armed with two court orders authorizing them to seize up to $1.9 million in cash from the casino, an action that forced the closure of the 52-year-old property's casino.

News Brief: Atlantic City casino revenue rose 2.8 percent in December, thanks to the new Borgata resort, which gained ground lost by existing rivals, New Jersey state data showed on Friday.

News Brief: African-American communities are split over the impact slot machines would have on Maryland’s poor and working-class communities.

News Brief: Pete Rose say that he never made his baseball bets from the clubhouse, but one of his former bookmakers, Ron Peters, said Rose made bets from the clubhouse and the dugout.

News Brief: The Department of Justice has issued a subpoena to Clear Channel Communications and other media companies regarding advertising by illegal Internet gambling sites.

News Brief: All twelve of Atlantic City's casinos have agreed to put on concerts to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary.

News Brief: Sunflower County Sheriff James Haywood's top priority is to rid the community of illegal gambling.

News Brief: Maine lawmakers grappling with Governor Baldacci's plan to strengthen the state's regulation of slot machines at harness-racing tracks will have to weigh three competing options.

News Brief: The Maine Legislature has called off an effort to legalize slot machines in off-track betting parlors.

News Brief: Penn National Gaming has it plans to buy Bangor Historic Track from rival Shawn Scott and develop Maine's first racetrack with slot machines.

News Brief: The general contractor for the Tropicana parking garage that partly collapsed in October has applied for a permit to demolish at least part of the structure.

News Brief: After approving a list of questions for prospective casino operators in Orange County, the Historic Hotel Preservation Commission on Wednesday stressed there are no front-runners in the quest to get the casino contract.

News Brief: A California appellate court panel has upheld the murder convictions of two men for the shooting death of a man who was followed from an Inglewood casino to a Santa Clarita gas station.

News Brief: Organizers and developers hope a sprawling casino and entertainment complex in Country Club Hills would beat out other casino plans soon to be paraded before Illinois gaming regulators.