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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.

News Brief: The last member of a Pittsburgh family-run illegal gambling business will join his brother behind bars.

News Brief: Thirty mayors and deputy mayors from China visited Biloxi on Thursday to learn how casinos have changed the city.

News Brief: In a move that could break Indian tribes' monopoly on Nevada-style gambling in California, corporations that own major horse-racing tracks and card rooms are preparing an initiative aimed at next November's ballot to allow them to operate slot machines.

Nevada Gaming Commission voted 5-0 to remove deceased mobster, Marshall Caifano, from its List of Excluded Persons, popularly known as the Black Book.

News Brief: Illinois’ gaming regulators have fined the Par-A-Dice riverboat casino $17,500 for allegedly not telling them soon enough about a theft at the East Peoria property.

News Brief: The California Lottery's `SuperLotto Plus' jackpot has rolled up to $44 million.

News Brief: The New Mexico Racing Commission has picked Ruidoso Downs owner R.D. Hubbard and his partners to build and operate a new horse race track and casino, to be called Zia Park, at Hobbs.

News Brief: A majority of Westbrook city councilors say they support sending a proposal for a race track with slot machines to referendum.

Opponents of a proposal to build a 300-foot tower along with a new casino and resort in Summerlin announced that they would hold a rally Friday to pressure developer Howard Hughes Corp. to abandon its support of the project.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $33 million.

ews Brief: The Las Vegas Strip is planning a half-million-dollar New Year's Eve fireworks display that organizers hope will rival East Coast celebrations and help mark Sin City's 2004 centennial.

Nevada gambling casinos that feature trendy nightclubs may be in for a tax windfall of up to $4 million under the new live entertainment tax.

News Brief: Ohio can participate legally in a multistate lottery but can't take profits from the lottery away from education, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that largely favored the state.

ews Brief: Officials of the Meskwaki tribe have abandoned their goal of reopening their casino by Thanksgiving. Tribal spokesman Tom Jochum says Christmas is more realistic.

ws Brief: In asking Dane County voters if they want a casino, County Board members want referendum language that some Madison officials say is biased in favor of gambling.