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It's been a great six weeks for the new co-owners of downtown's Golden Nugget, Tim Poster and Tom Breitling said Sunday evening.

A Clark County District Court judge this morning set aside Friday's probate sale of a parcel underneath the closed Binion's Horseshoe hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas.

News Brief: Short of a hurricane, a bad leak or some other calamity, it's hard to imagine how the value of a floating casino could drop from more than $20 million one year to $6.5 million the next.

News Brief: Long-time gaming manager Craig Ghelfi is the new chief operating officer at Detroit’s Greektown Casino, which reported a $2.3-million drop in revenues last year on gaming receipts of $325.3 million.

News Brief: A pickpocket stole $7,500 from a Canadian gambler's inside pocket while he played baccarat at Casino Rama, near Orillia, Ontario.

Lawyers were scrambling late Friday night to salvage the proposed sale of Binion's Horseshoe to MTR Gaming Group and the World Series of Poker to Harrah's Entertainment.

News Brief: Nevada health officials are still searching for clues to a virus that has sickened more than 100 guests — most of them visitors from Hawaii — of the California Hotel and Casino since Dec. 3.

The Plaza hotel-casino has filed a civil lawsuit and the Nevada Gaming Control Board is pursuing criminal charges against a former slot shift supervisor for allegedly falsifying $125,000 in jackpot tickets.

News Brief: Instant Racing had its best month ever at Arkansas’ Oaklawn Park when patrons poured $5.82 million through the machines in February.

It's only one billboard for a city of more than 1 million people. But to Carol O'Hare, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, it's also a significant moral victory.

The sale of Binion's Horseshoe to West Virginia-based MTR Gaming Group is expected to close Tuesday despite a last-minute $1.805 million bid on a small piece of property underneath the Fremont Street property, a Harrah's Entertainment Inc. spokesman said Sunday.

A quarter-century after it opened, the Barbary Coast is sitting on a prized piece of real estate with perhaps the most potential for Strip redevelopment, analysts agreed Friday.

International News Brief: Mexico City's top financial officer has been filmed gambling hundreds of dollars on blackjack at a Las Vegas casino.

A New Mexico woman won an $8 million Megabucks slot jackpot at the Palms Casino midday Sunday.

ews Brief: If Indiana Downs’s new off-track betting parlor cannot carry Kentucky races, then the Shelbyville, Indiana, track does not want any wagering facility in the state to take Kentucky races.

The new chairman of the Senate panel overseeing Indian gambling could be Senator John McCain.

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $70 million.

The World Series of Poker will be played downtown in 2005 after Harrah's Entertainment Inc. agreed to keep the world's top poker tournament at Binion's Horseshoe for at least one extra year beyond this year's event.

News Brief: Casino stocks are near 52-week highs and research reveals that institutional investors are buying the highfliers as Wall Street analysts raise earnings estimates.

News Brief: Churchill Downs Inc. has offered $28.5 million to buy the Fair Grounds racetrack in New Orleans.