Louisiana News - Page 35

News Brief: Louisiana’s three racinos have produced more than $40 million for horsemen.

News Brief: Ronald Alleman, who was appointed to the Louisiana State Racing Commission in February, has resigned from the position following the revelation of a felony conviction.

News Brief: The Louisiana Gaming Control Board unanimously approved a request by Harrah's New Orleans Casino to change the way gambling regulators count employees at the casino, making it harder to track the jobs at the casino that were the rationale for its 2001 tax cut.

News Brief: Short of a hurricane, a bad leak or some other calamity, it's hard to imagine how the value of a floating casino could drop from more than $20 million one year to $6.5 million the next.

News Brief: Two lawsuits filed by opponents of a video-gambling truck stop in Marrero will be heard in tandem in state court this week, after a judge agreed Monday with defendants that the cases share essential facts and have the same aim.

News Brief: Churchill Downs Inc. has offered $28.5 million to buy the Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans.

Harrah's Entertainment’s Board of Directors approved the construction of a $142 million, 450-room hotel tower at Harrah's New Orleans Casino.

News Brief: Iberia Parish is considering putting the video poker question on the fall ballot.

News Brief: A web site set up by Louisiana to prevent youth gambling has received high praise from prevention experts but little attention from teens because they may not know it exists.

News Brief: Louisiana's treatment programs work, but getting more addicts into the programs will take more partnerships, a state official says.

News Brief: Dave Durbin refers to gambling, especially the increasingly popular online gambling, as 'the quiet disease.'

As part of a new marketing campaign featuring the incomparable ‘Loose Slot Louie,’ Bally's management is loosening more than 1,000 slots in the company's Louisiana riverboat casino.

News Brief: Opelousas wants a much bigger share of the anticipated revenue from the new Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino in Louisiana.

HCS I, Inc., the managing general partner of Hollywood Casino Shreveport, reports that its Board of Directors has initiated a process to sell the riverboat casino/hotel complex of HCS located in Shreveport, Louisiana.

News Brief: Oakdale, Louisianan, may have violated its compact with the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana by failing to use gaming funds properly.

News Brief: Evangeline Downs opened its casino in Opelousas to fanfare last month, attracting 123,279 people who bet $3.4 million on the racetrack’s 1,627 slot machines from December 19-31.

Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming on Tuesday evening announced a $190 million deal to buy Harrah's Shreveport riverboat in northwestern Louisiana, a deal company executives believe adds a solid cash-producing casino at an attractive price.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and Boyd Gaming Corporation have signed a definitive agreement for Harrah's to sell its Shreveport hotel-casino to Boyd Gaming for $190 million.

Pinnacle Entertainment reports management changes to provide the leadership for its Lake Charles project and continuation of the success of its Belterra property.

News Brief: Louisiana’s Fair Grounds, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last August, may become the latest racetrack to join ranks with Churchill Downs Inc.