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News Brief: Batavia Downs, believed to be the nation's oldest nighttime Standardbred track, will not open for racing this summer because of dwindling revenue and an inability to get financing for its racino operation, track officials said.

Station Casinos Inc.'s gamble on the Thunder Valley Casino in Northern California is paying off, spurring more Indian tribes look to the Las Vegas company for helping opening casinos.

News Brief: In early April U.S. marshals seized $3.2 million from Discovery Communications, the television and media company, in an aggressive effort to crack down on a new target, Internet gambling.

News Brief: Casino Windsor revenues tumbled 16 per cent in the fiscal year ended March 31, caused mainly by a litany of events out of their control, according to casino officials.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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