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News Brief: New York Assemblymen Joseph Morelle, David Gantt, and State Senator Joseph Robach have introduced legislation to allow video lottery terminals on Rochester’s fast ferry.

News Brief: The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma unveiled a series of concessions that it would make in exchange for an out-of-court agreement to build a $25 million high-stakes bingo hall in Aurelius.

ews Brief: During their first six days in operation, the new electronic gambling machines at Fairgrounds Gaming & Raceway in Hamburg earned nearly $1 million for the state and racing interests, New York state figures show.

News Brief: The New York Racing & Wagering Board has approved racing licenses to Vernon Downs so the harness track can run races this year and become eligible to open a casino.

News Brief: Ben won $55,000 one recent evening, but in his tireless ambition for the $2.5 million world championship, this mild-mannered college graduate has become an outlaw in hiding and a twisting thorn in the side of Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general.

News Brief: Leaders of the Seneca-Cayugas of Oklahoma went to Albany, New York, this week to press an offer to settle their share of the Cayuga Indian land claim in exchange for state approval to build a casino in the Catskills or Rochester.

News Brief: The New York Racing Association would be restructured and required to pay back about $14 million taken from horse owners' accounts under a bill proposed by a key state senator.

News Brief: New York's expansion of lottery games and casinos may cause an increase of more than 50 percent in problem gambling, according to an expert.

News Brief: The region's latest gambling venture, Fairgrounds Gaming & Raceway, opens today at Buffalo Raceway, adding another 1,000 slot machines to a region that critics say is becoming saturated with casino gambling.

News Brief: Seneca Niagara Casino turned a profit of nearly $50 million in its first nine months of operation.

News Brief: A consortium of local hotel owners and managers wants the Greater Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau to rethink its anti-casino stance.

News Brief: One New York State Senator says it pays for the State to consider allowing more video lottery terminals.

News Brief: $35 billion will be spent this year on legal gambling in New York, wagered on everything from lottery games to video-slot machines and horse racing, a Queens senator reported yesterday.

The state Racing and Wagering Board on Friday refused to renew the operating license for the Vernon Downs harness track in central New York.

News Brief: The Casino Dealing School of Rochester opened in January and already has two classes of recent graduates. The school is cashing in on the recent growth of casinos.

News Brief: Buffalo's largest business advocacy group is 'staunchly opposed' to the construction of a casino by the Seneca Nation of Indians in downtown Buffalo.

News Brief: A petition bearing the signatures of more than 5,000 Erie County residents opposed to a casino on Buffalo's waterfront was presented Wednesday to State Senator Byron W. Brown.

News Brief: United States Playing Card Co., the maker of playing card brands like Bicycle and Hoyle is being sold to the Jarden Corp. for $232 million.

News Brief: The New York State Catholic Conference has begun a campaign against expanded gambling, saying the state can't afford the social cost.

News Brief: By 10 in the morning on its opening day, about a thousand patrons had already flooded the Finger Lakes Race Track.