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News Brief: More than 15 million people in the U.S. played fantasy sports last year, including 12 million in fantasy football, according to a survey conducted by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.

International News Brief: According to a online casino poll, the ice-cool nerve of the poker-faced card-sharp is no better embodied than by Steve McQueen.

A member of the Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino board of directors has dropped his proposal that board members receive an annual salary.

News Brief: When they organized a $1 million fundraiser for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in February, Gavin and Joe Maloof's family casino business was negotiating a deal that would net them millions from running what could be one of the world's largest casinos.

Workers of the Aladdin hotel and casino had New York strip steak for breakfast this morning in the employee dining room. It was Robert Earl's way of saying thank you for persevering through 35 months of operating in bankruptcy.

News Brief: A vote for riverboat gambling in Washington County narrowly passed Tuesday to the relief of residents who for years have been praying for progress to touch their small town.

News Brief: The average total daily handle at the recently concluded Pimlico Race Course summer race meet declined 10.3% compared with last year’s summer meet at Laurel Park with betting on live racing dropping 5.5%.

Caesars Entertainment Inc. has eliminated 27 craps supervisor jobs at its Caesars Palace resort, saying those positions aren't needed to run the games effectively.

A woman celebrating her wedding anniversary alone while her husband of 38 years fulfilled his scheduled offshore work duties won a $4,336,288 slot jackpot at Harrah's New Orleans Casino.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $36 million.

News Brief: Penn National Gaming Inc. has agreed to sell the financially troubled Hollywood Casino in Shreveport to a small Nevada casino operator.

News Brief: Ever since the billion-dollar Borgata opened, the megaresort, which raked in more than $1.8 million in daily casino winnings in July, is already looking to get bigger and better.

News Brief: California’s Campo band have been struggling with sewage and groundwater issues since building their casino in 2001 and the issues are not going away.

News Brief: Ralph Reed, a chairman of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and former executive director of the Christian Coalition, confirmed on Sunday that he accepted more than $1 million in fees from a tribal casino lobbyist and a public relations specialist.

The Hard Rock Hotel is trading babes for bunnies and cleavage for kitties in its new billboard advertising campaign.

Las Vegas businessman Andrew Donner has been granted a state casino license for the Lady Luck, but the chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission expressed concerns that Donner may be ‘cutting corners’ in following rules.

The bankrupt Aladdin will be converted into the first Planet Hollywood Resort Casino under a licensing plan that won unanimous approval Thursday from the Nevada Gaming Commission.

The Hard Rock Hotel has set the stage for a battle with the Nevada Gaming Commission by filing a motion to dismiss a three-count complaint against it for suggestive advertising.

The off-Strip Ellis Island Casino & Brewery has submitted plans with to build a 36-story condo-hotel tower with about 800 rooms.

Zone4Play has signed a marketing and distribution agreement with Bluestreak Technology Inc. to bring play-for-fun casino games packages to customers.