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News Brief: Senator Vince Fumo has offered up an expanded gambling plan for Pennsylvania that would authorize up to six slot machine locations at the state’s racetracks and give track owners a greater profit margin than proposed in earlier slot bills.

News Brief: The state Justice Department is warning Montanans not to become Internet gambling entrepreneurs because doing so is illegal.

News Brief: Just about every corner of Maryland is being pitched as a perfect place for gambling. But with one month to go before the General Assembly convenes for its annual legislative session, lawmakers are nowhere close to agreeing on a single plan.

News Brief: Harrah’s Entertainment Corp. reportedly bid $25-million for the physical assets of Rosecroft Raceway near Washington, D.C., the largest of ten bids for the facility believed to be the most lucrative in Maryland if legislators legalize video lottery terminals at state racetracks.

News Brief: The village of Rosemont and minority investors in Emerald Casino Inc. threatened Tuesday to oppose the state's latest plan for securing a cash windfall from the sale of Emerald's dormant casino license.

The World Poker Tour and Lakes Entertainment have formalized a WPT Satellite program designed specifically to encourage casinos and online poker rooms to run satellite events that will feed directly into the season-ending World Poker Tour Championship.

While needing to overcome some significant regulatory and legal hurdles, worldwide revenues for all forms of gambling on mobile phones can reach $16 billion by 2008, according to a new research report.

News Brief: Max Baer Jr. has gone to court in efforts to build his proposed $54 million Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino in a shopping center he shares with The Glenbrook Co. and J.C. Penney.

Kelly Clarkson, is favored to win World Idol, according to Intertops.com.

News Brief: Wisconsin Lottery officials say they will no longer broadcast nightly drawings live on television and will stop producing a weekly game show that had aired for more than a decade.

News Brief: Max Baer Jr. has gone to court in efforts to build his proposed $54 million Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino in a shopping center he shares with The Glenbrook Co. and J.C. Penney.

News Brief: Oregon tribal officials broke ground for a new coastal casino, but said they are scaling back on their plans for the facility.

The National Center for Responsible Gaming wants to establish a working relationship with the regulators and policymakers who continue to make lasting decisions about legalizing gambling and rules governing casinos.

According to a Harvard University researcher, the extent of gambling that occurs on college campuses has been greatly exaggerated.

The Nevada Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit by a cocktail waitress at Caesars Palace alleging the resort was negligent in not providing security in the employee parking garage, where she was abducted twice by her estranged husband.

Park Place Entertainment Corp.'s Caesars Entertainment-branded MasterCard debuted Monday with many credit officials and gaming foes attacking the bank-casino company partnerships

Almost five years after Nevada gaming regulators enacted rules tackling problem gambling, one of the state's leading problem gambling experts is calling on the Nevada Gaming Commission and the Nevada Gaming Control Board to revisit the subject.

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

John Grochowski: Let's wrap up the tour with a look at the area's best video poker.