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News Brief: A Bally's Atlantic City worker filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the union Tuesday, charging she was denied strike pay.

News Brief: A fair held Tuesday at Harrah's Atlantic City to fill the positions of striking Local 54 of Unite Here workers at Harrah's and Showboat Casino Hotel drew a continuous line of people eager for a job.

News Brief: Boyd Gaming provides details on Borgata’s $347 million expansion project and strong financial results.

No one matched all six numbers to win the jackpot, so the estimated jackpot for the Friday, October 29, 2004 drawing advances to $57 million.

PartyPoker.com will partner with ESPN Radio 710 and the Bicycle Casino to present the 1st Annual ESPN Radio 710 Mason & Ireland Celebrity Poker Party on Sunday, November 14.

Terrible's casino expects to begin construction next month on a new parking garage that will mark the first phase of a larger casino expansion.

The Hard Rock says it will no longer accept high-roller action from gamblers with million-dollar credit lines who have the potential to lose -- or win -- millions from the casino.

A flulike illness that has stricken employees and guests at the Flamingo is believed to be caused by a type of Noro virus but the Clark County Health District won't have a final determination until today, a spokeswoman said.

A 64-year-old phone company retiree hit a whopping $6,366,947 Wheel of Fortune statewide progressive slot jackpot at the Ameristar Casino Vicksburg.

An out-of-town couple in their 80s driving in a rental car plowed through a steel-reinforced concrete barrier at the Golden Nugget's parking garage on Monday, sending them plunging 18 feet to the pavement below.

News Brief: Unite Here also has persuaded about 20 tribes to pledge not to oppose unionization attempts.

Analysts say the sale of the Bally's riverboat casino in New Orleans by Caesars Entertainment Inc. may not be the last move by Caesars in the coming months as the company prepares for its merger with Harrah's Entertainment Inc.

Boyd Gaming Corp. -- fresh from announcing a major casino expansion at its Borgata resort in Atlantic City -- is expected to discuss details of a new hotel tower during the company's third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday.

News Brief: Paris Hilton is designing her own personal suite at the Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip

News Brief: With an off-track betting referendum on the city's ballot Nov. 2, Manassas Park is getting some noisy input from its neighbors.

Lorenzo Creighton, president of the Flamingo Las Vegas, is the king of the hill at the joint Bugsy Siegel started half a century ago, a casino he wouldn't even have been allowed to enter back when the mob was still in charge.

If scarcity truly determines an item's value, superlatives could be had on the cheap Friday morning at the Forum Shops at Caesars.

Caesars Entertainment Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Bally's Casino New Orleans to an affiliate of Columbia Sussex Corporation for approximately $24 million.

News Brief: Ground has been broken on a new ship that will substantially increase the size of Blue Chip Casino, one of five riverboats along Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline.

Las Vegas Sands Inc., which owns the Venetian and is building the 3,000-room Palazzo on the Las Vegas Strip, has received final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission to sell up to $575 million in common stock.