Indiana News - Page 19

News Brief: The fate of Casino Aztar will be in the hands of Indiana gambling regulators this week, a little more than a year after the troubled boat was taken over by Kentucky hotel magnate William Yung III.

French Lick Resorts & Casino, LLC and French Lick Resorts & Casino Corp. reports that they were offering to purchase for cash up to $150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the outstanding 10-3/4% First Mortgage Notes due 2014.

Indiana Live! Casino will host a sneak preview event at 11 a.m. Friday, March 14, 2008, at the Indiana Downs Race Track Clubhouse.

News Brief: Indiana House Bill 1153 would permit bars to sell paper pull-tabs and conduct small-stakes gambling

News Brief: Lawmakers in both the Indiana House and Senate have filed legislation to allow bars and taverns to offer paper pull tabs and other small-stakes gambling opportunities.

News brief: Tropicana Entertainment plans to sell Casino Aztar in Evansville.

News Brief: It now will be March at the earliest before the Indiana Gaming Commission hears the report of an investigation into layoffs at Casino Aztar in Evansville.

News Brief: French Lick Resorts & Casino officials said yesterday that charitable organizations will eventually benefit from the Orange County development's profits, despite a revised ownership structure.

New Brief: Casino Gaming's Automatic Win has been added to all of the blackjack tables at Harrah's Joliet and Resorts East Chicago

News Brief: The family that owns the French Lick Resorts & Casino plans to part ways with Benchmark Hospitality International, the company that has managed the two hotels since their reopenings in the past 13 months.

News Brief: Site development plans for the proposed Indiana Downs horse racing park 'racino' received approval Monday night from the Shelbyville Planning Commission.

News Brief: Site development plans for the proposed Indiana Downs horse racing park 'racino' to be built early next year received approval Monday night from the Shelbyville Planning Commission.

News Brief: While most Hoosiers spend the holiday at home with family and friends, Thanksgiving weekend happens to be one of the busiest times of the year for Indiana's casinos.

News Brief: The Cordish Co. is positioning itself to become an active player in Indiana's growing gambling business by taking on its first venture to build and manage a Las Vegas-style slot machine casino.

News Brief: Columbia Sussex Corp. is planning redesigns for two of its recently acquired properties, and a Covington architectural firm will handle the job.

Centaur, Inc. has retained LPCiminelli of Buffalo, N.Y. to lead construction of its new facilities at Hoosier Park in Indiana and Valley View Downs in western Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Don Barden's two Majestic Star Casinos sunk lower at a time when competitors in East Chicago, Hammond and Michigan City were raking in more cash and floating expansion plans.

Las Vegas-based Ameristar Casinos officially entered its seventh gaming market, completing a $675 million acquisition of the Resorts East Chicago riverboat casino that is in Indiana, but caters to customers from lucrative Chicago.

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. reports that Timothy D. Wright has been appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of the East Chicago, Indiana, property.

Ameristar Casinos, Inc. has completed its acquisition of Resorts East Chicago from Resorts International Holdings, LLC for $675 million, plus approximately $10 million of transaction costs.