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News Brief: With public meetings and prayer vigils, some opponents in south St. Louis County are challenging proposals for a new casino.

News Brief: The owners of Vernon Downs have filed a lawsuit accusing a New York City businessman and several former track officials of trying to destroy the upstate New York harness track's reputation.

The Mississippi Gaming Commission will no longer require casino employees to wear gaming licenses that contain their full names.

Opponents of Station Casinos' proposed resort in Summerlin base part of their argument against the proposed 300-foot tower on the way another of the gaming company's casinos in Henderson took shape.

News Brief: Police officials in Reno and at Lake Tahoe say their New Year celebrations were crowded, but relatively uneventful.

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Armed helicopters will patrol the restricted airspace over the Strip on New Year's Eve to protect Las Vegas from a potential terrorist attack, authorities said Tuesday.

Binion's Horseshoe's financial problems are apparently driving the 52-year-old downtown gambling hall to try to sell the property's most valuable assets, including the rights to the granddaddy of poker tournaments, the World Series of Poker, sources said.

Las Vegas hotel operators and airlines serving McCarran International Airport are being required by the FBI to turn over all guest and passenger names and personal information, at least during the holiday period, several sources said Tuesday.

News Brief: The sale process for Illinois' unused 10th casino license, now held by the bankrupt Emerald Casino, is scheduled to start next month.

News Brief: In the course of a year, the Seneca Niagara Casino has created jobs and a few millionaires.

News Brief: Wisconsin business and labor organizations have urged the state Supreme Court not to strike down Gov. Jim Doyle's agreements with Wisconsin tribes to run casinos in the state.

Strip resorts that had seen a drop-off in occupancy rates attributed to terrorist threats already are now seeing rooms fill up as the countdown toward 2004 rolls on.

A blackjack dealer and two players have been charged with defrauding Park Place Entertainment Corp.'s Caesars Atlantic City casino out of more than $72,000, authorities said.

Representatives from two Maine unions are giving their support to a horse track with slot machines in either Westbrook or Saco.

Members of a fraternal lodge that lost its bingo license for one year for using video poker machines say they were forced to sell their meeting hall after suffering a $2.6 million loss in gambling revenue.

Federal officials will restrict flights in the airspace over the Strip on New Year's Eve because of heightened concerns that Las Vegas could be attacked, authorities said Monday.

Cancellations for New Year's Eve jumped dramatically in the past week at previously sold-out Strip hotels, a Deutsche Bank survey found Monday.

News Brief: Illusionist Roy Horn, who was attacked by a tiger during a show in Las Vegas in October, has returned home from hospital.

News Brief: The rancor and indecision over the push for a casino gambling measure is far from resolved as lawmakers ready for a new session starting Jan. 7.