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Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson's long-planned second megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip will have 53 stories and will top Steve Wynn's Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino across the street by 105 feet, according to an architectural draft of the project submitted to Clark County planners.

ews Brief: The Isleta Casino Resort has pulled a controversial TV ad that promoted gambling as a financial solution to people who are short on cash or deeply in debt.

Harrah's Entertainment will reopen Binion's Horseshoe Casino and Hotel on April 1, in time to host the 35th annual World Series of Poker.

News Brief: Seasoned gamblers have learned how to milk the system but their maneuvers may soon become obsolete as computerised systems begin to automate the way casinos track, rate and reward patrons.

The jackpot for the Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Mega Millions drawing is expected to grow to $63 million.

News Brief: The deadline for Fair Grounds to file a reorganization plan in bankruptcy court was moved from March 29 to April 15. The track has also filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana.

News Brief: Residents miss the days when Capay Valley was a quiet enclave for organic farmers and nature lovers before the Cache Creek casino was built.

News Brief: Ursula Scott, sober and employed at 42 after struggling for 20 years with a substance abuse problem, was not going to quietly accept the news that bus service from Hartford to Foxwoods Resort Casino would be discontinued.

News Brief: In less than 20 years' time, the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians has gone from lending a hand in the building of its Capay Valley bingo hall to overseeing the opening of a full-fledged resort.

News Brief: Cherokee Casino, which is owned by the Cherokee Nation, has purchased Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Oklahoma.

As part of a move by Harrah's Entertainment Inc. to settle all pending claims against Binion's Horseshoe, Harrah's has paid a former dealer who alleged wrongful firing $25,760 in backpay.

The Aladdin reported a $4.1 million profit in February, reversing the $402,122 loss reported in January and the $4.1 million deficit recorded in December.

Former Horseshoe workers both literally and figuratively moved closer to their old jobs Thursday after they met with officials from Harrah's Entertainment Corp.

News Brief: Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt and County Executive Scott Walker announced an initiative to determine whether the Potawatomi Bingo Casino should move downtown, an idea tribal leaders greeted cautiously.

Local fiscal concerns are touching off another war between the states for gaming revenues.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows and a Council Bluffs racetrack would be taxed at a higher rate than other state-regulated casinos under a new tax plan proposed by Senate leaders Wednesday.

For the hundreds of folks staffing the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Gold Spike and Western casinos this morning, the sentiment about their hotels' former owner was clear. Jackie Gaughan has not been forgotten.

Barrick Gaming Corp. executives took control of the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Western and Gold Spike hotel-casinos shortly after midnight this morning.

Government officials have declined to release details of a landmark ruling on Internet gambling by the World Trade Organization.

Rudi Schiffer gives us the latest news from the Tunica, Mississippi casinos.