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News Brief: A Las Vegas developer's plans to construct a $650 million casino in southern Maine has triggered the most expensive referendum campaign in the state's history.

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A selection of news and views from inside the gaming industry this week.

Harrah's Entertainment Chairman Phil Satre called on the rest of the casino industry to follow his company's lead as he formally presented the company's extensive corporate archive to the Gaming Studies Research Center at UNLV.

News Brief: In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Treasure Island hotel-casino set sail with the maiden voyage of its new pirate battle production.

News Brief: Southern Ute tribal officials don't think video lottery terminals at Front Range racetracks will take away one nickel from their slot machines, but they still oppose them and Amendment 33.

News Brief: A Louisiana woman won a lot more money than she thought Sunday at Casino Magic Bay Saint Louis.

News Brief: Paramedics treated one hotel guest for minor smoke inhalation after a linen cart fire Sunday in a tower of a southern Nevada hotel-casino.

News Brief: Every casino now has a separate high-limit slot room - with names like Diamond Cove, Platinum Place, Crystal Room, Sala Miralto and Gold Room - that they want treated as a private club.

News Brief: There is only one topic of discussion in Sanford, Maine, these days: the casino.

News Brief: The possibility of two casinos operating next door to each other on Laclede's Landing has discouraged at least one gaming operator from pursuing investments in St. Louis.

News Brief: Gamblers who played video lottery terminals or slot machines moved from social gambling to pathological gambling four times as fast as gamblers who bet on horse or dog races, according to a Rhode Island study.

News Brief: Creators of the Casino and Gaming Television network are betting that a national interest in gambling will translate into a desire to watch it on TV.

News Brief: Three Maryland state senators say they were interviewed by FBI agents in an inquiry into the Senate president's fund-raising efforts and the push for slot machine gambling.

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News Brief: The Nevada Supreme Court has declined to review its decision last July granting a new trial for Sandy Murphy and her lover, Richard Tabish, on charges of robbing and killing former Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion.

News Brief: Even before a ballot is cast for a proposed Indian casino, some Mainers have applied for subsidized housing in Sanford, hoping to beat the rush and stake out a place to live if a casino job is in the cards.

News Brief: A new state law that goes into effect Jan. 1 will mandate that a proposed $650 million casino, like virtually all buildings open to the public, be smoke-free. Some say a total smoking ban would hurt business and generate less revenue for the state.

News Brief: The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled today that a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize video slot machines cannot be put before voters.

ondon-based Virgin Atlantic Airlines, which last month added a third nonstop round trip between London's Gatwick International Airport and Las Vegas, will add a fourth next spring, the company said today.