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News Brief: As the Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel & Casino nears its one-year anniversary May 11, it's no secret the resort and the Seminoles' other casinos are raking in the bucks.

News Brief: The Florida Legislature failed to pass a bill permitting slot machines in Broward County as the annual legislative session ended Friday, making it likely the issue will end up in court.

News Brief: With only one day left in the annual session, the chances grew slimmer that the Legislature would pass bills allowing slot machines in Broward County.

News Brief: Broward County's first non-Indian slots casino will start construction within two weeks and be open for New Year's Eve, according to Pompano Park harness track officials.

News Brief: With anti-gambling legislators triumphant in the Florida House, Senate President Tom Lee said Wednesday he doubts the Legislature will pass bills to allow slot machines in Broward County this year.

News Brief: The Florida Senate committee did the unexpected when it took up the slots-machine bill: It voted to bar Broward's four parimutuels from remaining in the horse race, dog race or jai alai business if they to choose to offer slot machines.

Hundreds of legislators, racetrack owners, casino operators, and slot-machine manufacturers will convene Oct. 17-18 at the first Florida Gaming Summit.

News Brief: Billionaire Donald Trump, self-proclaimed master of the deal, says he was bamboozled in a business transaction involving the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

News Brief: Real estate millionaire Chris Shelton, a contestant on NBC’s 'The Apprentice,' was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

News Brief: Not a week into its new operation, on Saturday, an Ocean Jewel casino ship shuttle boat smashed into a barrier protecting the base of the John's Pass drawbridge.

Florida, the land of the hanging chad, is likely to be the exception to all rules when it comes to gaming proliferation, hospitality-industry insiders are saying.

Three tracks and a jai-alai fronton in Broward County could install as many slot machines as they want and run them 16 hours a day, 365 days a year under a bill approved by a Senate panel Tuesday.

News Brief: If backers of casino gambling in Kentucky ever succeed in getting the issue on the statewide ballot, the key to victory may be found in Florida.

News Brief: Florida senators considering the tax and regulation of slot machines had several suggestions including a tax rate between 30 and 35 percent.

News Brief: The Seminole Tribe of Florida has asked for a meeting with Governor Jeb Bush to discuss its plans to install Las Vegas-style slot machines at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood and to pitch a further expansion of gambling, including blackjack.

The installation of slot machines in Florida's Broward County could adversely affect Calder Race Course in Miami, as well as racing and breeding interests throughout Kentucky.

The approval Tuesday of slot machines at three racetracks and a jai-alai fronton in Broward County, Florida, gave gaming equipment manufacturers an emotional boost but not much of a jump in stock values.

News Brief: A year after the Seminoles' casino was reborn with a new complex and new name, the Tampa operation is a financial success for the tribe.

Broward County’s referendum question authorizing slot machines at the four existing pari-mutuel facilities that have conducted live racing during each of the past two years in Broward County was approved by a majority of Broward County voters on March 8, 2005.

News Brief: A Florida poker tournament promotion sweeping local bars is a free, legal pastime or an unlawful gambling enterprise depending on whom you ask.