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Despite a $4 .1 million loss at the Stardust and disappointing results at its Par-A-Dice riverboat in Illinois, Boyd President is optimistic about the future of the gaming company.

Wall Street analysts Tuesday predicted Nevada's biggest casino operator will choose to build its next billion-dollar-plus megaresort on the Strip and not in Atlantic City.

News Brief: The Mississippi Gaming Commission is expected to approve proposals for two new casinos for Greenville during its regular meeting today.

News Brief: Top officials connected to a Rhode Island gambling center asked a judge Monday to delay their trial in an alleged bribery scheme until early next year.

News Brief: Recent studies suggest the Maryland Lottery generates an outsized share of its revenue from the poor, from minorities and from people with limited education.

Station Casinos' proposal to build a new hotel with one 300-foot tower of 1,000 rooms and two 200-foot-tall towers of 250 rooms has been met with mixed reactions from residents.

Harrah’s has donated thousands of artifacts documenting the history of Harrah’s to the special collections department at the University of Nevada.

News Brief: Atlantic City casinos will arm their chief political weapons with knowledge when they begin distributing a pro-industry magazine to their 50,000 employees in December.

News Brief: Colorado's mountain casino owners are vehemently opposed to a ballot measure that would legalize slot-style gambling at five Front Range racetracks.

News Brief: Accusations of racism surfaced Tuesday in Maine's casino debate as backers of a proposed Indian casino called attention to a sign they said was placed near the home of a pro-casino resident of Sanford who is part American Indian.

News Brief: Except for a few donations from Indian lawyer Tom Tureen, the Las Vegas firm of Marnell Corrao is single-handedly paying for the Maine pro-casino campaign.

News Brief: As Gov. Gray Davis was fighting to keep his job this month, he negotiated, for the second time within weeks, a gambling agreement with an Indian tribe that made a nearly concurrent contribution to his campaign to avoid being recalled by voters.

News Brief: A landless American Indian tribe lost the blessing of Sonoma County officials Tuesday in its bid to build a casino just outside Rohnert Park, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.

John G. Brokopp: The results of Casino Player’s eighth annual "Best of Gaming" survey conducted among casino gaming enthusiasts nationwide was the highlight of the magazine’s July issue.

Nearly 3 million people used McCarran International Airport in September, a 5 percent increase over the 2.8 million people who flew in and out of the Las Vegas airport in the same month a year ago.

News Brief: Leading up to the June primaries, casino vendors contributed $65,000 to New Jersey Senate Republicans.

News Brief: For one afternoon news conference, Gov. James E. McGreevey was a friend of the gaming industry again.

News Brief: Grey2K USA, the animal rights group that nearly persuaded Massachusetts voters to ban dog racing in 2000, is vowing a similar ballot battle if lawmakers pass a bill to put slot machines at the Bay State's two greyhound tracks.

News Brief: Maine could do much better than simply receiving $100 million a year from a cut of slot machine revenue if the state auctioned off the rights to open a proposed casino, industry analysts say.

News Brief: Only hours after the Davis administration announced a deal to build a new Indian casino and bring in new money to the state, Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger promised Monday to veto the plan.