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News Brief: A federal excise tax on wagers taken by sports and race books and keno games would be abolished under a provision attached by Sen. Harry Reid to the six-year, $318 billion transportation bill that passed the U.S. Senate late last week.

News Brief: By 10 in the morning on its opening day, about a thousand patrons had already flooded the Finger Lakes Race Track.

The negotiations between Hard Rock hotel-casino and lawyers for the Nevada Gaming Control Board towards a possible settlement of the board's Jan. 21 complaint involving the Hard Rock's advertising campaigns have been extended.

Intertops.com are the first and only sportsbook to offer odds on who will survive the CBS hit TV series Survivor: All-Stars.

Intertops.com are offering odds on the two big loves in Jay-Z' life, Beyonce and the New Jersey Nets.

News Brief: Geoff Andres, the new general manager at the Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center, keeps a candy dish full of dice in his office.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino officials reported record slot machine handles in January despite bitter cold weather.

News Brief: One of CEO Bob Boughner's favorite photo props inside Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa - the twin $1,000 slot machines - are on the shelf.

News Brief: The crowd at the groundbreaking for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Biloxi on Tuesday morning was impressive, but not as amazing as the number of people who have applied for a job at the resort.

Matthew Hileman has traveled a long way to land in an odd little place -- a Kunsthalle, or small, privately owned art gallery in the desert.

Binion's Horseshoe workers are crying foul over demands they sign a general release against the company in return for limited repayments of medical expenditures.

A top Nevada casino regulator has called for a review of the federal process by which Indian tribes are recognized and lands are approved for casino development.

Steve Wynn plans a half-billion dollar expansion of his $2.4 billion megaresort, with construction on a second tower set to begin before Wynn Las Vegas' scheduled April 2005 opening, industry insiders say.

Friday the thirteenth was far from unlucky for the international visitor to the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino who won $10.2 million on Nevada Megabucks.

As part of a new marketing campaign featuring the incomparable ‘Loose Slot Louie,’ Bally's management is loosening more than 1,000 slots in the company's Louisiana riverboat casino.

News Brief: Tropicana Casino and Resort plans to open its entire $245 million expansion project, including the fatally flawed parking garage, by the end of September, Aztar Corp. said Wednesday.

News Brief: A $25-million expansion project at Charles Town Races has received unanimous approval from the Jefferson County Planning Commission.

News Brief: Many state lotteries are under investigation due to tough economic times and employees being more comfortable whistle-blowing on questionable situations.

News Brief: Resorts Atlantic City reports earnings were hammered by the effects of its major expansion project.