New York News - Page 73

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.

News Brief: A proposed constitutional amendment to allow non-Indian casinos in New York ties into a high-level strategy to leverage Indian casinos into the Catskills, top officials said Wednesday.

News Brief: Vernon Downs will be one of the first local businesses to take advantage of the county smoking waiver.

News Brief: The former chairman of the federal Securities and Exchange Commission has joined a lawsuit alleging fraud against the Las Vegas group that controls Vernon Downs.

News Brief: The Buffalo Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau has once again reaffirmed its opposition to placing a downtown casino in the Buffalo Convention Center.

News Brief: Construction is expected to begin this week at one of the New York race tracks that will offer video lottery terminals.

The video gaming machines from Sierra Design Group have been activated at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway in Saratoga Springs, New York.

News Brief: There are two candidates running to replace James Kennedy as executive director of the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.

The celebrations began early as the hundreds of customers flowed into the new gaming facility in Saratoga Springs, New York.