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News Brief: A Las Vegas investor denied a racing license in New York state has offered to loan $3 million to the struggling Vernon Downs harness track.

Scientific Games Corporation reports that the Iowa Lottery has extended the company's online lottery contract.

One ticket matched all six Mega Millions numbers in the Friday, November 19, 2004 drawing, and now players in New York City, New York are checking their tickets to see if they are the newest winner of an estimated $149 million jackpot.

News Brief: Las Vegas Sands has upped the size of the purse in its $500 million initial public offering in the face of strong investor interest in the country's gambling mecca.

Prof. I. Nelson Rose: The future of the gaming industry in New York state depends upon the competence, or more accurately the incompetence, of lawyers.

Empire Resorts, Inc. is moving forward on plans to develop to Catskills casinos with the Cayuga Nation of New York.

News Brief: Niagara County receives no money from the Seneca Niagara Casino, and with a property tax increase looming in January, County Legislator Richard E. Updegrove is taking a swing at changing that.

News Brief: New York Gov. George Pataki and the Seneca-Cayuga Indian tribe of Oklahoma agreed to allow the tribe to build the first of three casinos in the Catskill Mountain region.

Empire Resorts, Inc. has entered into a binding agreement with Concord Associates LP and an affiliate for acquisition by Empire of the Concord and Grossinger's Resort Hotels and Golf Courses, two of the Catskill Mountains' historically renowned and strategically located resort properties.

News Brief: Two of the region's biggest dealmakers aim to cut one of the hottest deals to hit the Catskills.

News Brief: The New York Racing Association has appointed a new president and chief executive officer with a short timetable to turn things around for the financially ailing operator of the state's top three thoroughbred tracks.

News Brief: Barry Snyder was elected president of the Seneca Indian Nation Tuesday, beating two other candidates in a race that focused largely on the future of the nation's casinos.

News Brief: A woman was shot fatally yesterday morning in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn during an argument in what appeared to be a gambling and after-hours club, the police and witnesses said.

News Brief: The federal commission that oversees Indian gaming has warned New York tribes to resolve a dispute with the state or face 'enforcement action' on their casinos, according to a U.S. attorney.

News Brief: The new deal with the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma, would reward the Crane, Vacco lobbying firm in Albany with more than a million dollars if a Catskills casino project is achieved.

News Brief: The Seneca Niagara Casino has installed a series of new slot machines that are themed to Hollywood and TV shows.

Casino Media Group has launched a new media network that places advertising directly inside casinos on gambling table felts, on poker chips, on playing cards and in surrounding POS.

News Brief: Mohawk tribal leaders met with Governor George Pataki to complete a proposed land claim settlement important to a plan to create a casino in the Catskills.

News Brief: The Seneca Nation of Indians will elect a new president later this fall, but its feelings about putting a casino in downtown Buffalo remain the same.

Scientific Games Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Printpool Honsel GmbH, a German company which is the supplier of instant tickets to all of the 16 lotteries which operate in Germany.