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News Brief: Card playing has improbably become one of TV's hottest programming trends.

News Brief: Governor Robert Ehrlich may have recruited a majority of Republican lawmakers, a group once solidly opposed to more gambling in Maryland, to accept legalization of slot machines.

Boomtown Casino and Hotel Reno will toast 2004 with a New Year’s Eve celebration of free champagne, party favors and live entertainment from the Lelands.

News Brief: The proliferation of gambling in Michigan has opened a debate over whether the market is becoming oversaturated, spreading profits too thin and ultimately hurting jobs, local economies and state revenues.

News Brief: The Nevada Gaming Control Board, not the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, originally uncovered suspected money laundering activities taking place at local casinos by Tokyo loan shark Susumu Kajiyama and tipped off law enforcement agencies in the United States and Japan.

John G. Brokopp: "Table games promotions are rare, but the Grand Vic has come up with one for dice players that ranks as the best ever in this market."

News Brief: A federal judge will decide whether to allow the Shinnecock Indian Nation to build a casino in Hampton Bays, New York, without waiting for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to grant the tribe federal recognition.

A plan to give the FBI easier access to financial records from casinos and other businesses will now go to the president to sign.

ews Brief: A Las Vegas investor and his associates have been accused of bilking an upstate New York harness race track of $7.5 million in questionable loan fees.

News Brief: After agreeing to preserve the facades of two rundown 19th century buildings, Harrah's New Orleans Casino has won city approval to build a 27-story hotel next to its downtown gambling hall.

The Nevada Gaming Commission gave final approval to regulations that will overhaul the present work card system for casino workers across the state and replace it with an employee registration system that begins next year.

The Aladdin hotel-casino, in the process of being sold to a group headed by the CEO of Planet Hollywood International Inc. for $635 million, reported a profitable October before bankruptcy expenses.

he Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday sided with its sister agency, the state Gaming Control Board, in supporting draft regulations that would require casinos to pay a 10 percent live entertainment tax on nightclub and lounge venues where disc jockeys play recorded music.

Binion's Horseshoe is past due on bills with Nevada Power Co., and utility executives said Thursday that they are negotiating a settlement with Horseshoe owner Becky Behnen.

News Brief: Firefighters, police officers, doctors, politicians and union tradesmen gathered in a hospital conference room as Gov. James E. McGreevey thanked them for their rescue efforts during the Tropicana garage collapse.

The Reno City Council has given initial approval to a request to nearly triple the size of a neighborhood casino on South Virginia Street south of Reno.

News Brief: The Jena Band of Choctaws will have to cover any possible tax losses to the state to get an agreement to operate a reservation casino in northwestern Louisiana, according to Governor Mike Foster.

News Brief: College students in Mississippi could learn about casino management at universities throughout the state if the College Board has its way.

News Brief: The Treasure Bay Casino will not have to lower the mast of its pirate ship if the gambling barge is moved into a man-made basin.

News Brief: The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission voted 5-0 to leave in place a 5-year-old moratorium on the issuance of new casino licenses.