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News Brief: In the hours after Thursday's deadly garage collapse at the Tropicana, other casinos and employees stepped in to help.

News Brief: Jurors in the federal court trial of two St. Paul bar owners accused of taking part in an illegal sports gambling and money-laundering conspiracy will get the case this morning.

News Brief: With the proliferation of gaming venues, the presence of a casino can help, or hurt, an area land a convention or meeting.

News Brief: What was supposed to be a public anti-casino rally on the steps of Bangor City Hall featuring Maine Gov. John Baldacci turned into a small press conference held inside a nearby office.

News Brief: The first snow of the season in the Sierra last week impacted Northern Nevada casinos and resorts in predictable ways.

News Brief: Opponents or supporters of a proposed casino in Sanford, Maine, spent the last hours of the campaign convincing voters to vote at all.

News Brief: Saying their communities have few other options for economic development, the mayors of 10 south Chicago suburbs pledged to stick together Monday in the fight for the state's last casino license.

News Brief: It is alternatively portrayed as a way to revive Colorado's stagnant economy by increasing tourism promotion and painted as a boondoggle to give a British company a near-monopoly on gambling along the state's Front Range.

News Brief: French Lick, Indiana, is divided over a riverboat referendum. Ministers are preaching against the evils of gambling, while most county officials are in favor of a riverboat casino.

or a property with a small casino floor, a mere 657 rooms and roughly 1,200 parking spaces, the Hard Rock's influence extends far beyond its off-Strip location in the shadow of the city's megaresorts.

A selection of news and views from Atlantic City this week.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation plans to enlarge its truck stop stores in Tomah and Wittenberg to make room for new gambling operations by spring.

News Brief: Pennsylvania gaming regulators will get an eyeful when they begin their routine investigation of the Mississippi-based company applying for a horseracing license in Fogelsville.

News Brief: In a last-gasp effort to resuscitate their expiring industry, the owners of certain South Florida dog tracks want a transfusion. They want the very lifeblood of American gambling: slot machines.

News Brief: The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians is contemplating building a small casino in the coastal hills of Sonoma County about 4 miles east of Stewarts Point, California.

News Brief: Two men received prison sentences last week for unconnected robberies at Helena casinos last year.

News Brief: The Mashantucket Pequot tribe, which runs Foxwoods Resort Casino, re-elected Michael Thomas as chairman and rejected candidates who called for reform on Sunday.

News Brief: Cheryl Schmit is a self-defined soccer mom is now on the front lines in the war against casino expansion in California. Her opponents note that Schmit also works as a paid consultant for card clubs and has ties to Nevada gambling interests.

News Brief: Only 14 Nevada hotel-casinos have complied with a new homeland security law requiring major resorts to file an emergency response plan with the state and police.