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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.

The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved a complicated deal permitting operators of the Rampart Casino at the Resort at Summerlin to share 50 percent of their profit with the company that owns the property.

Associates of Shawn Scott, the investor denied a New York Racing license on grounds that he wasn't fit to be involved in racing, are promoting the idea of slot machines at Idaho's race tracks.

News Brief: Casino Control Commission Ralph Frulio is out of a job after 61/2 months, the shortest tenure for any commissioner in the agency's 26 years.

ews Brief: The recent fight over building a casino in Maine, which already held the record as the most costly referendum campaign in Maine history, got even more expensive when new finance reports showed that the two sides spent a combined total of more than $10 million.

News Brief: Oneida Indian Nation President Ray Halbritter said that the Pataki administration during land-claim talks has made `11th- hour' demands for the tribe to turn over a portion of revenues generated by its Turning Stone casino to New York state.

News Brief: Differentiating between slot machines and video lottery terminals is one of the crucial issues in a challenge to the legality of the state's plan to set up the gambling terminals.

ews Brief: Harrah's Entertainment is trying to acquire the Binion's Horseshoe name in Nevada, one of the best known and oldest brands in the gambling industry, a company official confirmed Thursday.

HCS I, Inc., the managing general partner of Hollywood Casino Shreveport reports that HCS has received a $4 million insurance payment.

News Brief: A reputed Genovese family capo was banned from New Jersey casinos Wednesday as a bad influence.

A former Mirage casino employee who failed to file thousands of money-tracking reports with the federal government claimed he `snapped’ under pressure and got so far behind that he was `scared’ to tell other employees the truth, according to a state investigation made public this month.

Electronic Game Card Inc reports an order for its accumulator gamecard format for a promotion to be run by the Iowa State Lottery early in 2004.

Less than an hour after the official nominations were announced earlier this morning, BetWWTS.com became the first bookmaker in the world to release odds on the 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Kenilworth Systems plans to provide real time television broadcasts of live in-progress casino table games to digital satellite and digital cable subscribers, so that those viewers can wager along as the games are played.