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News Brief: Mountain View Casino owner John McCaw, late of Pahrump, died suddenly in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel and Casino. He was 50 years old.

News Brief: Lady Luck smiled upon, and then deserted, a Philadelphia man when he won about $20,000 in a casino and then had the money stolen, police said Thursday.

News Brief: One of two suspects in an armored car robbery at a Salt River Indian casino is still at-large, contrary to earlier reports, officials said.

News Brief: The Casino Queen was named in two separate Jones Act suits filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court on allegations that the riverboat gambling facility failed to provide two employees safe places to work.

News Brief: The rising dollar, soaring gas prices and tighter restrictions on smoking are hurting Canada's casino industry, which is already losing ground to on-line upstarts.

ews Brief: America’s leading anti-gambling organization has blasted the provincial government and the B.C. Lottery Corporation for their introduction of frequent-player cards to be used in casinos.

The National Labor Relations Act should not apply to casinos and other businesses operated by Indians on their land and Congress should exempt tribes from the law, an Arizona congressman told a House subcommittee on Thursday.

As everybody knows, there are currently no federal laws specifically addressing online gambling, but the US authorities are mobilising right now, armed with the decidedly sketchy Wire Wager Act.

News Brief: The Tohono O'odham Nation has a new casino boss to oversee construction of the new Desert Diamond Casino on Nogales Highway as well as the tribe's entire gaming operation, the tribe announced this morning.

The Powerball jackpot for the Saturday, July 22nd drawing will be $116 million with the cash option at $52.9 million.

Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. reports four new amenities at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort have or are scheduled to open during the month of July, 2006.

International News Brief: A new panel is to investigate whether US restrictions on internet gambling breach world trade rules.

International News Brief: One of the key persons indicted was Gary Kaplan, founder of the site. A US resident who had been arrested in 1992 for illegal sports betting, he later moved his operations to Aruba and then Antigua.

News Brief: Ontario's Casino Windsor says it is laying off 297 unionized and 32 non-union staff due to a slowdown.

With half of the 2006 WSOP already in the books, Casino City reporters Aaron Todd and Ryan McLane are ready to hand out their inaugural “Keys to the City” Awards, this round for the best of the best in first-half WSOP performances.

News Brief: Robert Brooks, chairman of Hooters, was found dead at his home Sunday at 69.

ews Brief: Coquitlam, British Columbia, scored a $2-million windfall from the Boulevard Casino this week.

For 25 years, the Eldorado has brought the sights, sounds and tastes of Italy to Reno during the Eldorado Great Italian Festival.

Magna Entertainment Corp. reports and Chief Operating Officer of Magna Entertainment Corp. is pleased to announce that Bill Murphy has been appointed Vice President and General Manager of Racing Operations at Gulfstream Park.

Casino City reporters Aaron Todd and Ryan McLane hand out their "Keys to the City" mid-Series Awards to the best of the best from the 2006 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.