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News Brief: Penn National, in hopes of operating a horse track with slot machines in Maine, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Las Vegas gambling figure who wants to do the same.

News Brief: Gov. Jim Doyle says that he will respect the wishes of Dane County voters on whether the Ho-Chunk Nation can expand a bingo hall into a casino.

The Dubuque Racing Association has approve the Dubuque Greyhound Park & Casino plan to add 400 slot machines as part of a $15.6 million expansion plan.

Even after marathon night in the Pennsylvania Senate, efforts to approve gambling-financed property tax cuts collapsed Saturday before the sun rose.

News Brief: Iowa drug dealers have pinpointed casinos as ideal places to quietly launder the large bills they earn selling methamphetamine, cocaine or other illegal drugs.

News Brief: Twelve people got stuck between floors on an elevator Sunday morning at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, and city firefighters had to cut a hole in a wall and run ladders into the elevator shaft to free them.

News Brief: State Representative Scott Reske and state Senator Tim Lanane will take a shot at bringing expanded gaming to Indiana as they plan to file legislation to authorize video pull-tab machines with the House of Representatives in coming weeks.

News Brief: Games will resume 10 a.m. Dec. 31, at the Meskwaki Bingo-Casino-Hotel in Tama, Iowa, said Betsy McCloskey, executive director of marketing.

A selection of news and views from Atlantic City this week.

News Brief: Reno casinos continue to feel the pinch of growing competition from California Indian casinos.

News Brief: California tribes are accused of underreporting their casino revenues by over $2 billion.

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

News Brief: A $26 million museum and ecological park has opened on the banks of the Mississippi River, the latest in a line entertainment developments largely paid for with casino tax money that Tunica County officials hope will lure a wider range of visitors.

It's been overshadowed by a younger, flashier and more-expensive sister program, but proponents of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's pro-business advertising campaign say they too have been extremely effective in luring more visitors to Southern Nevada.

Multimedia Games, Inc. has installed the first 267 Point-of-Sale Terminals for a new Tribal Instant Lottery Game at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California.

A bevy of Thanksgiving travelers provided some holiday stuffing for McCarran International Airport, which enjoyed a 9.4 percent increase in passenger traffic in November.

Barney Vinson: I'd been in Las Vegas for less than three weeks.

News Brief: Prosecutors plan to seek a harsher penalty for Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish if they are convicted a second time of killing casino executive Ted Binion, court documents show.

News Brief: Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff has privately reviewed gambling options with Indian leaders in what a governor's official said was a meeting to explore ways to help fund Texas public schools.

News Brief: The Nevada Supreme Court's chief justice raised questions Thursday about the authority of a state Gaming Control Board agent to hold a professional gambler beyond the one hour permitted to police.