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News Brief: Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun have hired several hundred Brazilian students to work in their casinos through the winter.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino will pay the state a total of $33.6 million from their slot machine revenues in October, the casinos reported Monday.

News Brief: A heart patient got a little too much excitement at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: With a live television audience cheering him on, an Alabama cowboy who hid his expressions behind dark glasses won $1 million Monday in the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

News Brief: For the second time in two years, employee health insurance costs are rising at Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun.

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.

The phenomenal success of the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel, has been a boon for casinos and poker parlors across the nation, but among the biggest winners are those organizations hosting tournaments on the WPT and the players on the Tour.

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: Slot machine revenues were respectable at the region's two American Indian casinos in September, even though the numbers did not compare well with last year's figures, executives said.

News Brief: A former Foxwoods Resort Casino employee charged with stealing $20,000 did so by concealing bundles of cash and removing them from the casino after falsifying a slip to conceal the theft, according to state police.

News Brief: Not content with at least temporarily blocking new Indian casinos in Connecticut, a statewide anti-gambling expansion group is now aiming to stop Foxwoods Casino’s expansion plans.

A Massachusetts woman became the one-millionth bus passenger and won a party for the other passengers.