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Caesars Palace in Las Vegas sees many items reach its lost and found, and many of those items are eventually donated to needy causes.

Penn National officials shot down an idea that the gaming company would acquire rival casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment.

The slot machine giant has promoted Robert Melendres as chief legal officer and corporate secretary and Craig Billings as chief of staff and head of corporate development.

Dennis Perkins was dealt a seven-card straight flush and won $97,204 at the Las Vegas casino.

Keith Schwer was an economics professor at UNLV and served as the key forecaster on the Southern Nevada economy.

The new CityCenter hotel is billing itself as a true boutique nongaming hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

MGM Mirage wants Crystals, the 500,000-square-foot luxury retail and entertainment district at CityCenter, to be the retail "epicenter" of the West.

A committee of unsecured creditors in Station Casinos' bankruptcy case are asking a judge to appoint a trustee to take over the company's operations.

Bill Velardo, Richard Fiore and Jeffrey Clontz have all passed away within the last three weeks.

Nevada gaming regulators are closing watching the financial maneuvers of Dubai World, who received a license to share in revenue from CityCenter's Aria casino.

An IPO offered by Las Vegas Sands on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange fell more than 10 percent on its first day of trading.

Only three of the nine gaming companies charted by Applied Analysis saw an increase in their average daily stock prices in November compared to October.

The nearly 1,500-room nongaming Vdara hotel will welcome its first paying customers on Tuesday night.

The gaming giant has filed applications with Nevada gaming regulators seeking approval to acquire the Las Vegas property.

Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas will close its 365-room hotel tower beginning Dec. 14 and lay off about 100 workers.

Casino City provides video evidence as to why these 10 poker professionals would not be good replacements for Jeffrey Pollack as WSOP commissioner.

MGM Mirage officials are hoping that President Barack Obama will drop by Las Vegas to acknowledge the opening of CityCenter.

Jeffery Pollack's surprise resignation as the commissioner of the World Series of Poker has raised a number of questions about the WSOP and Harrah's Entertainment.

Analysts say that the Herbst Gaming bankruptcy offers a blueprint for how to restructure a casino company.

The $8.5 billion CityCenter development will open its first hotel, Vdara, on Tuesday. The MGM Mirage project has made a number of headlines in the last 61 months, including coming within hours of filing for bankruptcy in March.