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News Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino will pay the state a total of $33.6 million from their slot machine revenues in October, the casinos reported Monday.

News Brief: A heart patient got a little too much excitement at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: Arson and conspiracy charges were dropped against a man accused of setting a blaze that destroyed the historic Moulin Rouge casino.

News Brief: Flint, Romulus, and Monroe County are all vying for a possible American Indian-owned casino.

Due to overwhelming demand a third show has been added to Jerry Seinfeld's December 26 - 27 engagement at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.

News Brief: With a live television audience cheering him on, an Alabama cowboy who hid his expressions behind dark glasses won $1 million Monday in the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: More than 1,600 grocery stores, convenience stores and other retailers have applied with the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. to sell lottery tickets, officials said Monday.

News Brief: Gamblers lost $163.3 million at Louisiana's state-licensed casinos in October, up about 6 percent from a year ago, state police reported Tuesday.

News Brief: Tulane University says it will offer a casino resort management program at its Biloxi campus.

News Brief: Seven of nine top managers at Casino Arizona, including President and CEO Jon Jenkins, will return to work Thursday, three months after they were put on paid leave for a casino administrative audit.

News Brief: The Arizona Racing Commission unanimously renewed T. P. Racing’s license so that it can operate races and simulcasting at Turf Paradise in Phoenix through May 2006.

ews Brief: Two former New York Racing Association betting clerks admitted their roles Monday in an identity-theft and tax-evasion scheme.

News Brief: The Indiana Gaming Commission plans to move as quickly as possible to name the company to operate an Orange County casino voters approved this month, the panel's director said.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation will pay Madison and Dane County at least $90 million over the next 12 years if voters approve the tribe's plan to turn a bingo parlor into a full-fledged casino.

News Brief: For the past year and a half, New Jersey lawmakers have been cracking down on Internet gambling.

News Brief: The Madison City Council is expected to approve a resolution Tuesday asking Dane County to hold a referendum asking voters if they want a casino at DeJope.

News Brief: The leader an organized crime ring called `The Mello Organization,’ will likely serve 20 years in federal prison after he decided to plead guilty charges of two counts of racketeering.

News Brief: A special gambling advisory panel for Topeka, Kansas, began deliberations with a warning from its chairman to stay away from any special interest group.

News Brief: State gambling regulators appear unlikely Thursday to immediately lift a moratorium on issuing new riverboat casino licenses, despite pleas from Iowa communities hoping to reap millions of dollars in gambling profits.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court reports that it will not let Gov. George Pataki appeal a ruling from New York state's highest court that favored anti-gambling activists.