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West Virginia native bests 322 players to take home $22,558.

News brief: Racing commission approves Churchill Downs plan to cut seven racing dates and reduce purses for six stakes races.

Ex-employee believes her efforts to force her employer to address secondhand smoke cost her that job.

Metro Police homicide detectives are investigating a dead body discovered on the Las Vegas Strip on Monday morning.

$300 million project already making an economic impact in Michigan.

Professors, students say slumping industry has altered classroom discussion.

Dawson retains IBF/IBO light heavyweight title with second consecutive win over Tarver.

Two teams of Las Vegas inventors are defying the odds and stand poised to see their dreams become reality.

Just in case you're heading to Las Vegas this year to watch the World Series of Poker, Casino City presents our list of the Top-10 players you want to go out of your way to see at the tables.

Thanks to the World Series of Poker's new discipline system, Phil Hellmuth's next temper tantrum could prove costly for the Poker Brat.

The MGM Mirage says the demand for hotel rooms is high enough to warrant an increase in summer prices thanks to rising occupancy rates and fewer convention cancellations.

Seventy-seven guests won a total of $269,000 in four days at Lake of the Torches Resort Casino in Lac du Flambeau.

News brief: The Seminole Casino in Immokalee won't be allowed blackjack and baccarat, but is still upbeat on its future.

News brief: Connecticut's governor and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have agreed on a plan to limit smoking and its effects at Foxwoods.

Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Peter King (R-N.Y.) introduced legislation Wednesday that, if passed, would create regulatory framework for online gambling in the United States.

Morgans Hotel Group Co., co-owner and manager of the Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas, plans to reduce its ownership stake in the Paradise Road property.

Some economists say it’s looking more and more like summer 2009 is going to be Staycation II. Or a naycation.

The downtown Vegas casino will need rent relief to survive, according to a senior company official.

News brief: The Rhode Island greyhound track have told the state that they plan to suspend dog-racing at the end of the month.

The operator of Wynn Las Vegas and Encore says consumer confidence a key if this economy is to turn around.