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News Brief: After years of planning, controversy and compromise, the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians in Yolo County is on track for an April opening of its expanded casino and hotel, which will be renamed from Cache Creek Indian Bingo & Casino.

Vegas conference to discuss cutting-edge addictions research and explore the implications of scientific research for regulation of the international gaming industry.

News Brief: Oregon’s Supreme Court justices questioned the lawyer for racino developer Shawn A. Scott about how documents collected in a state background check would harm his client.

The small Flamingo Road hotel-casino, between the Westin and the Barbary Coast, has plans for a redevelopment project set for consideration by Clark County planning officials.

News Brief: Commercial bingo operators are worried that they're one call from losing their game for slots are approved in Maryland.

News Brief: Hall County Sheriff investigators report that they have busted up a number of video poker operations.

The Internal Revenue Service has placed a tax lien on the 52-year-old downtown gambling hall, claiming the Horseshoe has yet to pay $5 million in past due payroll taxes.

News Brief: Indiana bingo revenue plummeted by the largest amount in a decade last year as the number of charities that host the games continued to decline.

Smaller resorts likely will be more dominant in the future of Las Vegas, according to nearly half the respondents in a final American Gaming Association survey released Monday.

News Brief: Gamblers who have tried their luck at Colorado casinos since they opened in 1991 have wagered $88.3 billion in an industry that has proven to be a $684 million windfall for Colorado.

News Brief: Louisiana's riverboat casinos have greatly surpassed their goals for hiring women, minorities and local residents, but they've fallen behind their targets for purchasing supplies from minority- and locally-owned businesses, according to industry statistics.

Aztar reports that construction has recommenced in the hotel tower and in part of the dining, entertainment and retail portion of the expansion of its Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

John Grochowski: Rating the best place in the Chicago area to play slots isn't like rating the best blackjack game or best craps tables.

News Brief: Huddled inside the Luxor hotel-casino, a trio of newly minted 21-year-olds are big on dreams, but short on know-how.

ews Brief: In the campaign to bring casino gambling and horse racing to Romulus, city officials are telling voters their support could mean millions of dollars that could be used to improve city services and thousands of new jobs in the suburb of 23,000 residents.

News Brief: Colorado casinos didn't want the state's racetracks to have video lottery terminals, but they are ready to take advantage of `ticket-in, ticket-out’ technology traditionally associated with the machines.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun has introduced a gift card that can be used for shopping, dining or events but not for gambling.

News Brief: Illusionist Roy Horn of `Siegfried & Roy’ is slowly recovering from a tiger attack that has kept him hospitalized since October, his partner said Monday.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $57 million.

News Brief: Chris Hemmeter, a powerful Hawaii developer who lost much of his vast fortune in a failed attempt to build a $1 billion casino in New Orleans, has died.