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News Brief: The Lac du Flambeau and Bad River Chippewa tribes of Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Ho-Chunk Nation's compact unfairly protects the Ho-Chunk from casino competition.

No matter what happens to wholesale prices, the Golden Gate hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas will continue to sell its trademark shrimp cocktail for 99 cents, owner Mark Brandenburg said.

News Brief: As state Senate leaders prepare their strongest push in years to expand gambling in Massachusetts, the spotlight has been fixed on a controversial plan to legalize high-end, resort-style casinos.

News Brief: Workers at the city's three casinos have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, but contract talks continue.

News Brief: Four years after their families moved out of poverty thanks to a community-wide economic windfall, Cherokee children in rural North Carolina exhibited marked declines in behaviors such as delinquency, violence, disobedience, and truancy.

Culinary Local 226 and the Sierra Club have joined forces to fund a flier opposing Station Casinos' plans for a 300-foot tower at its proposed Red Rock Station casino site in Summerlin.

News Brief: Auditors poring over Casino Arizona books for two months have found inconsistencies with internal controls for the bustling gambling business but no evidence of malfeasance, according to preliminary audit findings released Thursday.

News Brief: A Potawatomi County jury has awarded just under $500,000 to an Underwood greyhound kennel, which sued Bluffs Run Greyhound Park and Casino for failing to provide a safe racetrack for greyhounds.

News Brief: Rincon Indian tribe hopes to expand its 200-room resort in northern San Diego County with a 22-story tower that would have 500 hotel rooms.

North Las Vegas shouldn't make the same mistake that Reno made more than a decade ago when it began to limit growth at the expense of economic development, the casino industry's chief federal lobbyist said Thursday.

he West Virginia Supreme Court cleared the way today for the state to sell long-awaited bonds by affirming the work of the Economic Development Grant Committee and the legality of the state's poker-style video lottery machines.

News Brief: Governor James E. McGreevey will join hands with Park Place Entertainment on Sunday afternoon to announce the resumption of plans to build a massive parking garage critical to the future of the city’s midtown retail development.

News Brief: State House Democratic Whip Mike Veon wants to designate a portion of the revenue raised from proposed slots gambling in Pennsylvania to help cut Pittsburgh International Airport debt and preserve the US Airways hub.

News Brief: Blake A. Prater, the man the Securities and Exchange Commission says masterminded an alleged Internet Ponzi scheme, also operated a `production gambling’ company that paid employees to bet company money at craps tables at local casinos.

News Brief: The Ohio Senate voted 23-9 on Wednesday to allow voters to decide in March 2004 whether state racetracks can operate video lottery terminals.

News Brief: Two Spokane men are accused of using computers to make counterfeit tickets to cheat an Indian casino.

News Brief: The contract covering five unions and 5,900 workers at the city's three casinos expired after negotiators failed to reach an agreement. The workers are to vote on Friday whether to strike, barring a last-minute agreement.

ews Brief : The city that gave birth to Miss America, invented saltwater taffy and mastered the art of the cheap buffet has a new slogan: `Atlantic City -- Always Turned On.’

GM Mirage says it completed the sale of about 315 acres of land north of its Shadow Creek golf course in North Las Vegas for about $55 million to home builder Centex Homes.