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News Brief: A once controversial plan by the Gila River Indian Community to relocate and enlarge its Lone Butte Casino south of Chandler, Arizona, is bringing compliments from city officials and an open house to neighbors.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today denied motions from HSP Gaming, LP and Philadelphia Entertainment and Development Partners, LP for an extension of time to pay their $50 million license fee.

At Spotlight 29 Casino on November 3, when #1 platinum recording artists Jagged Edge bring their unmistakable R&B sound to the Spotlight Showroom.

Experts from Seminole Gaming, racetracks in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, Wall Street, politics and other fields will converge at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino for the 3rd annual Florida Gaming Summit.

The $800-million MGM Grand Detroit debuted last night raising the city's hospitality offerings to unparalleled heights.

Patti LaBelle is taking her one-of-a-kind performance on the road this winter and will be making a stop at Mohegan Sun on Saturday, November 24th.

Eight years after opening its initial Detroit venture, MGM Mirage pulls the wraps off its $800 million MGM Grand Detroit this morning.

Trump Marina Casino Hotel has been selected as the New Jersey Clean Energy Business Leader of the Year by the State of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

Centaur, Inc. has retained LPCiminelli of Buffalo, N.Y. to lead construction of its new facilities at Hoosier Park in Indiana and Valley View Downs in western Pennsylvania.

TLC Casino Enterprises, Inc. has delivered to MTR Gaming Group a notice to proceed with the purchase of Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel following the expiration of the early termination right in accordance with the June 2007 Stock Purchase Agreement, as amended.

With a major boost from their Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise, the Fertitta brothers made the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans for the first time this year.

News Brief: The Diamond Jo Casino has announced a pledge of $100,000 to Greater Dubuque Development Corp.'s "Destination for Opportunity," the economic development organization's latest campaign to create jobs and build business.

News Brief: The Bensalem Gambling Advisory Board has asked state regulators to reject any new designs for Philadelphia Park Casino.

News Brief: This weekend marks the first anniversary of the Blackfeet Tribe's Glacier Peaks Casino, but officials are reluctant to say whether their $7 million bet is paying off.

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News Brief: At noon Thursday, the public got its first look at the $120 million expansion of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa.

News Brief: Three months after launching an organizing drive at Foxwoods Resort Casino, the United Auto Workers union has more than enough signatures to petition for an election among workers and may be close to doing so.

News Brief: A bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein that would keep a tribe from expanding its San Pablo casino cleared a key committee Thursday in a unanimous vote.

News Brief: A Queen's Bench justice has dismissed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit brought against the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations and the provincial government.

American tourism boosters are turning to the federal government for help reversing a decline in foreign visitation to the United States that's sapped more than 70 percent of the nation's travel trade surplus since 1996.