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News Brief: Foxwoods Casino is opening a championship-quality public golf course, another restaurant and several shops. That comes on the heels of a private golf course.

News Brief: A group opposing to the spread of legalized gambling says a casino in Ontario should repay hundreds of thousands of dollars that a woman from Hamilton stole from a children's hospital fund and lost at the casino.

According to a AGA study, seventy-nine percent of civic leaders and elected officials in gaming jurisdictions think casinos have had a positive impact on their communities.

The jackpot for the Friday Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated annuity value of $26 million.

Atronic's Penny Parade Wide Area Progressive awarded $61,551.58 to its second winner on April 26th at the Santa Ana Star Casino in New Mexico.

Veterans groups, churches and charitable organizations hope doubling jackpots will help bring back crowds lost to other gambling venues and a bill passed by the Senate on Monday would let them.

The sounds and rhythms of many kinds of music along with the best entertainers in the area return to the party tent this summer at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway.

Starting June 10, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art will present a new collection of nineteenth century French paintings on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Warning shareholders not to judge the long-term performance of his resort based on its opening weekend, Steve Wynn nevertheless dropped several hints at the company's annual stockholders meeting Monday to suggest that his new resort was off to a good start.

News Brief: New slot machines at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino are drawing first-time players and regulars alike, which could boost business at the gaming hall.

For the first time since becoming a publicly traded company, the shareholders of Wynn Resorts Ltd. were able to hold their annual meeting in a building that was producing revenue toward their investment.

Venture Catalyst reports that Dubuque Greyhound Park & Casino has licensed Mariposa, VCAT's award-winning customer relationship management, marketing and business intelligence software system.

Rudi Schiffer gives the lowdown on the latest news from the resorts in Tunica, Mississippi.

The 1.5-million-square-foot condominium and hotel expansion project will break ground in October, Hard Rock Hotel President Kevin Kelley said after the presentation.

The most expensive bowling center in the nation opened last month at the Sunset Station casino in Henderson.

News Brief: In a bid to increase business on typically slow Mondays and Tuesdays, Harrah's North Kansas City Casino and Hotel during May will rebate 10 percent of every tracked player's net daily losses on those two weekdays.

When Barbary Coast General Manager Ronnie Highsmith talks about working his way up from the bottom, he truly means it.

Conventional wisdom holds that last week's opening of developer Steve Wynn's newest project will spark new hotel development and economic growth. However, some industry experts say Wynn is joining the growth wave, not causing it.

Union Equity Inc. has executed a pre-construction reservation agreement to acquire a unit at the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino condominium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $72 million.