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News Brief: With New York state working on a deal with an Oklahoma tribe for a scaled-down casino in downtown Rochester, a Seneca Nation leader says the tribe is not worried because the federal government will never approve the deal for the out-of-state tribe.

News Brief: New York could be in line for two more casinos, according to published reports.

News Brief: A New York Supreme Court justice ruled Wednesday that if a casino is built by the Seneca Nation in Erie County, it must be built in Buffalo.

News Brief: Opponents of the Seneca Nation's plans for a casino in Cheektowaga called Monday for an investigation into a letter from the federal government that said the deal had been formally approved.

News Brief: Lawmakers are pushing to expand Quick Draw, a video numbers game, to allow it in any bar across the state as New York continues its drive to increase gambling.

News Brief: New York state has struck a deal with the Cayuga Indian tribe that clears the way for a full-fledged casino in the Catskills.

News Brief: The Seneca Nation's new $71 million casino in western New York is no longer licensed to sell or serve alcohol.

News Brief: The court-appointed watchdog over the New York Racing Association is looking into whether the betting agency misused some of the millions of dollars held in trust for telephone bettors.

The popular New York Gaming Summit is back for its third installment, June 22-23 at a new location, Turning Stone Casino Resort in Verona.

News Brief: Smarty Jones headed back to his home at Philadelphia Park on Sunday, still a fan favorite but no longer undefeated after his upset loss in the Belmont Stakes.

News Brief: Mayor Anthony M. Masiello and a group of Buffalo businessmen seeking to force the Seneca Nation to build its casino in Buffalo may know within a week whether a state judge will bar the nation's plan for a Cheektowaga site.

30 local business and community leaders gathered Friday at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce's Hughes Center headquarters, intent on rebutting what they felt was the series' largely negative portrayal of this area.

Critical or not, many local advertising and gaming officials saw some upside in the New York Times' critical six-part series on Las Vegas.

News Brief: Governor Pataki's plan to create a gambling commission to regulate horse tracks and the new gambling parlors has been approved by the New York Senate.

News Brief: With a positive forecast and unprecedented interest in Smarty Jones' Visa Triple Crown Challenge bid in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, officials at the New York Racing Association are bracing for the biggest day in track history.

News Brief: Batavia Downs, believed to be the nation's oldest nighttime Standardbred track, will not open for racing this summer because of dwindling revenue and an inability to get financing for its racino operation, track officials said.

News Brief: Governor Pataki has proposed establishing a state gaming commission that would oversee gambling in the state.

News Brief: New York Senate Republicans have publicly offered a plan for improving education financing, proposing to spend an extra $6.3 billion statewide, largely from gambling money they originally found distasteful.

News Brief: There’s another lawsuit in the battle over building an Indian casino in Erie County.

News Brief: Frank Stronach, chairman of Magna Entertainment, says he is willing to invest a billion dollars to turn New York into the center of racing.