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Single Ticket Wins $52 Million Powerball Jackpot

For the second time this month a ticket purchased in Pennsylvania won the Powerball jackpot.

New and Improved Lotto 6/49 Launched

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation officially launched the new, bigger and better LOTTO 6/49 today in Toronto.

California Casino Celebrates Successful First Year

News Brief: When the Thunder Valley Casino celebrates its one-year anniversary June 9, it will be marking what is almost certainly the most financially successful first year of any Indian casino in the country.

Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Bringing Sawed-Off Shotgun to Casino

News Brief: A 20-year-old Reno woman was arrested on accusations that she took a backpack containing a sawed-off shotgun and rounds of ammunition into a casino, police said.

Smarty Jones Good for Gambling Industry

News Brief: Smarty Jones could shake things up beyond the off-track betting parlors and sports books.

Feds Step Up Push Against Online Gambling

News Brief: In early April, United States marshals seized $3.2 million from Discovery Communications in an aggressive effort to crack down on Internet gambling.

Tribal Casinos Outgrow Tribal Land

News Brief: Many tribes pushing toward what some say will be Indian gambling's next frontier: off-reservation casinos.

Woman Wins $1.6 Million Slot Jackpot

Kathryn Harris had already won two jackpots totaling over $3,000 and her husband had won $2,000 before she hit the $1.6 million jackpot on the new nickel Wheel of Fortune® Special Edition video slot at Boulder Station.

Slot Manager Killed at Home

Steven Allmaras, slot manager at the Virgin River hotel in Mesquite, was bludgeoned and stabbed in his own home.

Foxwoods Bets on Makeover

News Brief: As a $300 million makeover takes shape at Foxwoods Resort Casino, it is gambling's friendly new face, not that old Rat Pack, on display.

Caesars Palace Opens Exotic Car Dealership

Caesars Palace plans to open an exotic-car dealership in October, a marketing ploy industry experts say should help polish the resort's once-tarnished image.

Commercial Casino Take Up

Nontribal casinos nationwide generated more than $27 billion in gambling revenue last year, a 2 percent increase from 2002.

Survey: More Americans Visiting Casinos

Two million more Americans visited a casino in 2003 than in 2002, according to the 2004 State of the States: The AGA Survey of Casino Entertainment, released today by the American Gaming Association.

American Casino Closes Acquisition

American Casino & Entertainment Properties has closed its previously announced acquisition of Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Arizona Charlie's Boulder, two casinos in Las Vegas.

Bellagio Executive Details Power Outage

Glenn Bonner and his staff handle 220,000 computer help calls a year, but none were as challenging as the one he received on Easter Sunday.

Official: Innovations for Table Games on Rise

Spurred by the current rage of pokermania, table games will make a resurgence in casinos, an MGM MIRAGE executive says.

Cape Breton Woman Wins $10 million in Lottery

News Brief: An unemployed Cape Breton woman has won what is believed to be the biggest lottery jackpot in the Canadian Island's history.

California Tribal Casino Raided

News Brief: Investigators raided Shodakai Casino outside Ukiah, California, and the homes of tribal leaders, seizing files and computers in a search for evidence of embezzlement at the Redwood Valley casino.

Icahn Casino Reshuffle Ending

American Real Estate Partners, billionaire Carl Icahn's holding company, is expected to today complete the reorganization and financial restructuring of its Nevada and New Jersey casinos, including the Stratosphere in Las Vegas

New Mexico Track, Casino Promoted

The state could see millions of additional dollars pumped into its coffers thanks to a horse track and casino under construction here.

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