Louisiana News - Page 22

News Brief: The racing industry has come to terms with the idea that slots players are not horseplayers, but horse racing can still learn a lot from slot machines.

News Brief: Pinnacle Entertainment has confirmed that its proposed south Baton Rouge riverboat casino would operate inland on a large pond between River Road and Nicholson Drive, and not be berthed directly on the Mississippi River.

News Brief: Churchill Downs Inc.'s Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans has begun its first live race meet since Hurricane Katrina damaged the facility in August 2005.

News Brief: Casino Rouge plans to change the name of its riverboat casino and the Louisiana Gaming Control Board today unanimously approved those plans.

News Brief: After years of St. Mary Parish working to procure Louisiana’s 15th and last waterway gambling license, Amelia will soon be home of a riverboat casino.

Two of the three casino-related issues on ballots Tuesday were rejected by voters.

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. reports that voters in Lake Charles, Louisiana have approved a local-option referendum that would permit construction of a new $350 million casino hotel, Sugarcane Bay, adjacent to their L'Auberge du Lac facility.

News Brief: Louisiana's casinos took in a combined $58.4 million in September, down from $59.3 million in August.

Pinnacle Entertainment has submitted an application to state gaming regulators to move a shuttered Lake Charles riverboat casino to a new location in Baton Rouge.

News Brief: A 24-year-old LaPlace woman wanted by the St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 from a Reserve casino where she was employed was arrested in an apartment in Virginia.

News Brief: Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has formally petitioned the Louisiana Gaming Control Board for permission to place a riverboat casino in Baton Rouge.

News Brief: Gamblers lost $145.9 million to Louisiana’s riverboat casinos in September, up more than 50 percent from a year ago.

News Brief: Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco has voiced support for the state's crackdown on online gambling and renewed an extradition request for Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet.

International News Brief: Online gaming outfit Sportingbet has gone on the offensive against the American authorities ahead of a crucial hearing for Peter Dicks, its former chairman.

News Brief: Louisiana is determined to stop Internet gambling companies from taking bets in the southern U.S. state and has issued four arrest warrants for staff at Sportingbet Plc, a police officer told the Financial Times.

Harrah's New Orleans Hotel made its official debut Thursday, September 21, hosting a New Orleans-style party that attracted more than 2,500 guests who gathered to celebrate the first completely new hotel to open in the city since Hurricane Katrina.

Mississippi's Gulf Coast casino industry saw its reported gaming revenues for August decline for the 12th straight month as the area recovers from the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Kennedy Funding has provided a $1.92 million loan to Akaal Lodging for the purchase of the former Isle of Capri Inn in Louisiana.

News Brief: The Louisiana attorney general's office is developing a program to target underage gamblers.

International News Brief: Louisiana authorities may have instigated the arrest of Peter Dicks, the chairman of online gambling firm Sportingbet, under pressure from gambling firms in the Deep South.