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Turning Stone Resort and Casino has signed a multi-year contract to use the products and services of Global Cash Access, Inc.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case filed by a group of antigambling organizations seeking to overturn a 2001 New York state law that authorized the broad expansion of legal gambling in New York.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively ended the legal challenge to the expansion of gambling the state approved in New York state in October 2001.

News Brief: In light of a recent ruling, Senator Charles Schumer is asking the New York state Legislature refrain from all negotiations with the Shinnecock regarding the construction of a casino.

News Brief: Seneca Nation representatives met face-to-face with commissioners from Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, owners of the historic DL&W Terminal, to discuss the possibility of opening a casino.

Bally Gaming and Systems reports that a lucky winner has hit the largest New York Lottery video gaming progressive jackpot ever, winning $195,700.25 on a Jackpot Celebration Bally/SDG video gaming machine at Saratoga Gaming & Raceway in Saratoga Springs.

News Brief: The Oneida Indian Nation has expanded its retail offerings at Turning Stone Resort and Casino.

Saratoga Gaming and Raceway will present $60,000 in charitable donations to six local organizations at a press conference and check presentation on Friday, November 4.

News Brief: In a move they hope will move them closer to that elusive Catskills casino, the St. Regis Mohawks are abandoning Kutsher's Sports Academy for a proposed casino at Monticello Raceway.

News Brief: Members of an anti-casino group spent the weekend collecting signatures on a poster-sized letter that criticizes the Senecas' Buffalo casino as a social and economic mistake.

News Brief: The Seneca Allegany Casino took another step forward to it’s eventual completion as members of the Seneca Nation Tribal Council and representatives from the Seneca Gaming Corporation broke ground for a 220-room resort hotel.

News Brief: The president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians is encouraged that there will be real movement in his tribe’s effort to develop a casino in Sullivan County.

News Brief: New York is in no rush to be more generous with Buffalo and Erie County when sharing future slot machine revenues once the Seneca Nation of Indians builds a downtown casino.

ews Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians would abandon plans for a downtown Buffalo casino if Cheektowaga succeeds in overturning a court decision that blocks casino development outside the city, a town attorney argued Wednesday.

News Brief: The twin cities of Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Ontario rolled safe economic bets when respective governments authorized casino gambling.

IGT has been awarded additional placements of its video lottery terminals in New York and Rhode Island, based on the performance of its video lottery terminals in those jurisdictions.

News Brief: The Seneca Niagara Casino will host its latest job fair at the Millennium Hotel on Walden Avenue in Cheektowaga today.

News Brief: Two firms lobbying on behalf of companies seeking to open casinos in New York State have agreed to pay fines to the state lobbying commission to settle investigations involving prominent political figures, officials said yesterday.

News Brief: A coalition of Western New York religious leaders reiterated staunch opposition to a proposed casino in Buffalo and maintained that there is still time to block the casino.

News Brief: The Cayuga Indian Nation of New York has temporarily closed its video gaming hall in the town of Seneca Falls while it considers challenging a local law aimed at permanently shuttering the facility.