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This time each year, just days before Black Friday, the first holiday shopping day after Thanksgiving, many Las Vegas retailers seem to roll out annual projections calling for `double-digit sales increases’ in holiday sales.

fter months of testimony involving regulators, lawyers and taxpayers, it took less than 30 minutes Friday for the Nevada Tax Commission to approve a regulation governing live entertainment taxes in casinos as well as non-gaming venues new to the tax.

News Brief: The new chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority suggested Tuesday that downtown Baltimore would be a good location for a combination slot-machine facility, entertainment complex and racetrack.

A real estate limited partnership controlled by investor Carl Icahn may be in talks with a company regarding the possible acquisition of the Las Vegas Hilton.

News Brief: A federal bankruptcy judge has expressed skepticism over an agreement to free up Illinois’ 10th casino license that does not have the village of Rosemont on board.

News Brief: The Indiana Gaming Commission will investigate dealings between the Blue Chip Casino and its former owner, who was stripped of a casino license in Illinois.

News Brief: A town police officer accused of cashing a stolen gambling chip at the Mohegan Sun Casino has resigned.

News Brief: A lawyer on the run from allegations that he stole more than $436,000 from a Virginia law firm has been charged with laundering part of the loot through the Trump Taj Mahal casino.

News Brief: Casino executives are working with the governor on a casino-funded plan to bail out the horse-racing industry in exchange for removing the threat of slot machines at racetracks.

News Brief: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, backed by gambling interests and possibly major public employee unions, will be a main proponent of an initiative aimed at breaking Indian tribes' monopoly on Nevada-style gambling in California.

News Brief: The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians settlement with two Detroit casinos has paved the way for the construction of permanent casino-hotels in the city in time for the 2006 Super Bowl.

News Brief: The Oregon Supreme Court threw out a suit to block a new Indian casino on the Oregon coast, deflating the hopes of anti-casino activists who thought they had discovered a legal flaw in Oregon's tribal gaming rules.

News Brief: A newspaper ad by Isleta Casino zinging other Albuquerque-area Indian casinos has irked the competition since tribal casinos traditionally have presented a united front.

Thanks to their mothers and a garbage strike, two Chicago siblings got their winning lottery ticket back after they threw it away.

The Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians has won a settlement that pays the tribe $94 Million in compensation for being unfairly shut out of a 1997 bidding process to select builders for new casinos in Detroit.

News Brief: An Austin-based developers hope to establish a casino-anchored destination resort and a world-class aquarium at Isla Blanca Park.

Convention center insiders and Wall Street analysts are bullish about business in December and the 2004 first quarter despite storm clouds being reported on the horizon.

News Brief: A southern Indiana prosecutor will investigate whether Orange County's sheriff violated state law by campaigning for a proposed casino while he was on duty.

ews Brief: Twelve interests submitted bids on November 21 to purchase Rosecroft Raceway, a Standardbred facility near Washington, D.C., that could be Maryland’s most lucrative site of slot machines if the Legislature approves expanded gaming at state racetracks.