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News Brief: Members of the House Ways and Means Committee who killed the Maryland governor's slot machines bill last session toured the Compulsive Gambling Center as they continued studying the effect of bringing more slot machines to the state.

News Brief: This once-bustling mill town, where two Indian tribes want to build a sprawling casino and resort, has become a battleground where Las Vegas glitz collides head-on with Maine's idyllic L.L. Bean image.

News Brief: The collapse of a parking garage at the Tropicana didn't silence casino floors in this seaside gambling capital.

News Brief: Racing in Nebraska next year will begin on February 14 when Fonner Park in Grand Island opens a 38-day live meet that will run through May 8.

News Brief: Pending approval from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, the New York Racing Association will conduct 259 days of racing next year.

In 3 ½ years, Icahn Gaming Chief Executive Officer Rich Brown has seen a handful of smaller casinos more than quadruple their cash flow.

Las Vegas has replaced Columbus, Ohio, as the best city in the United States to conduct market research, an executive for NBC said Wednesday.

More than 260 of the nation's best slot players will gather at Harrah's Las Vegas on Nov. 3 to compete for $1 million and the title of National Champion of Slots at the finals of the ninth annual Harrah's Millionaire Maker.

The 128-day Calder Meet’s two marquee attractions, the Summit of Speed and Festival of the Sun, once again proved to be successful attractions both on- and off-track.

Shares of casino operator Aztar Corp. fell 4 percent on Thursday after a parking garage collapsed at its Tropicana hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, killing at least one person.

Frank Scoblete: Howard Newman is big, maybe 6’4" at a minimum, and also BIG, like he could be the bouncer at your local casino and no one would dare step out of line.

News Brief: The top five stories of an parking garage under construction at an Atlantic City casino collapsed Thursday, sending concrete slabs and metal beams crashing down as workers ran for cover. Four people were killed, about 20 were injured and one was missing, officials said.

News Brief: Gov. Bob Wise signed an executive order Wednesday that prohibits bars, clubs and fraternal groups from using the word 'casino' and other gambling-related words or images when advertising video poker games.

News Brief: At the start of another flu and pneumonia season, several organizations have targeted casinos, with their high elderly populations, as high-volume vaccine centers.

News Brief: With Argosy Gaming Co. facing an unprecedented hit from a higher state tax on revenues on its two Illinois casinos, its chief executive officer said Tuesday the company does not plan to expand or make major capital improvements to the Alton Belle Casino anytime soon.

News Brief: Bally's Atlantic City paid $20,000 and forfeited a jackpot for allowing minors to gamble last year.

News Brief: A man banished from casinos here for cheating at blackjack 22 days after the first casino opened in 1978 is asking regulators for the right to gamble again.

The raging fires in Southern California that blew smoke and ash over Las Vegas Wednesday don't appear to be keeping tourists away from the city, Strip resorts say.