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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.

News Brief: Churchill Downs is ‘extremely nervous’ that a smoking ban in Louisville would drive even more people across the river, according to the track's senior vice president.

News Brief: Two Gulf Coast casinos have given $100,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi's new economic development center.

News Brief: The Dane County Board have agreed hold a referendum on whether the Ho-Chunk Nation can expand a bingo hall into a casino.

ews Brief: After a six-month experiment, the owner of Portland Meadows and Multnomah Greyhound Park is getting rid of video gambling machines developed specifically for the racing industry.

News Brief: BeverlyHillsBookie.com, an offshore sports-gambling site, began accepting what it called `Media Proposition’ bets this fall where visitors can bet which big-name journalist will get the next big story.

News Brief: The Fair Grounds' racing meet begins on Thanksgiving while the track’s officials are dealing with court ruling that forced the track into bankruptcy reorganization, a year-long project of adding slot machines and stiff competition from other tracks.

News Brief: Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun have hired several hundred Brazilian students to work in their casinos through the winter.

News Brief: With casino-like video arcades popping up across Central Florida, Sanford officials have decided to regulate them to the hilt.

News Brief: Pechanga Resort & Casino, answering a space squeeze, announces 100,000-square-foot expansion plan.

John Grochowski: Restaurants at casinos are essentially support services, there to make it convenient for you to return to the main business - gambling - after you eat.

News Brief: River Rock Casino reports revenues of more than $6 million a month, clearing nearly $1.2 million a month after expenses. By late next year, its gross gaming revenue could exceed $350 million annually.

ews Brief: Some community leaders are working behind the scenes to convince Potawatomi Bingo Casino to relocate from the Menomonee Valley to downtown Milwaukee based on a new study on the feasibility of such a move.

he final draft of regulations governing a new tax on live entertainment is likely to contain loopholes that will result in disputes and even lawsuits over whether certain venues are taxable, Nevada regulators say.

News Brief: Charles Town Races & Slots officials say gamblers should be allowed to begin playing video slot machines earlier on Sundays.

ews Brief: A recent analysis of 2000 Census data by the Associated Press found that Palm Springs and the neighboring towns of Cathedral City and Palm Desert have some of the greatest income disparities in California.

ews Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't support a proposed ballot initiative that could allow operators of horse tracks and card rooms to add Las Vegas-style gambling if tribal casinos don't pay more of their winnings to the state, the governor's spokesman said.