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Chill Ultra Lounge had its grand opening, Saturday, May 6.

News Brief: French Lick Resort ahead of schedule in multi-million dollar restoration.

News Brief: Columbia Sussex has deal to purchase casino on Mississippi River at East St. Louis, Ill.

News Brief: Harness racing resumed Tuesday night at Harrington Raceway, after a driver was killed in a pileup when his horse stumbled and fell.

News Brief: The burgeoning U.S. on-line gambling industry must stop resorting to tactics aimed at evading government regulation, and prepare for a future in which it will have no choice but to deal with it, says a cyberspace legal expert.

Harrah's Louisiana Downs Racetrack and Casino and Youbet.com, Inc. are joining forces to help build the online segment of the track's pari-mutuel wagering business.

News Brief: Horse racing's problem is obvious: a decades-long slump in attendance and wagering at the track.

News Brief: Never gambled in a casino? Atlantic City's gaming halls want to change that. And some of them are offering sweet deals to any new customer who walks in the door.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

The Hard Rock Hotel is going to get a little pricier, as the new owner intends to grow earnings from $40 million to $50 million a year, the chief executive officer of New York-base

News Brief: Isle of Capri Casinos will expand its gaming offerings in southeast Florida with a $140 million slots parlor at Pompano Park Harness Track.

The Hard Rock Hotel, a pop icon in Las Vegas with its signature neon guitar and concert venue, The Joint, has been sold to New York-based Morgans Hotel Group for $770 million.

News Brief: Morgans Hotel Group Co. has agreed to buy the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for $770 million in cash from the property's founder and chairman.

News Brief: For the first time since it debuted nearly three years ago, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa was not Atlantic City's top-grossing casino. Bally's Atlantic City casino

Terry Lanni, MGM Mirage chairman and the American Gaming Association, has initiated a program to establish industry-wide standards for diversity in hiring, procurement and contracting.

ews Brief: Daily attendance at The Meadows harness-racing track could grow 10 times larger after its prospective buyers add 3,000 slot machines and build a 250,000-square-foot entertainment complex, backers said Wednesday.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $100 million for Saturday night's drawing.

PokerBodyguard, a new freeware product from Advanced Interactive Marketing, Inc., works to ensure that other online poker players do not rip you off.

There is no stopping the College Poker Championship III as more students' lives are enriched and the thrill of it's exciting conclusion draws near.

Timothy Poster and Tom Breitling, former owners of the Golden Nugget, and leads in The Casino reality show, will play in the CEO Poker event at The Palms, Oct 22-27, for the title of Chairman of Poker.