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News Brief: Senator Vincent J. Fumo wants to toughen Pennsylvania gambling regulations to protect problem gamblers.

The 2nd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress will be held March 6-7, 2006, in the expanded facilities of the Whitaker Center and connected Harrisburg Hilton, conference organizers announced today.

News Brief: A Las Vegas casino company yesterday cut state Senator Mike Stack III and his family out of its proposal to build a slots parlor on the Delaware River in Fishtown, Pennsylvania.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. introduced ‘The Harrah's Chester Challenge,’ a community initiative designed to support the acquisition of jobs skills and training that will enable Chester residents to fully benefit from the new jobs that will be created as a result of Pennsylvania's gaming legislation.

News Brief: Northampton County Council will hold a public hearing on proposals to establish slot machine casinos on Bethlehem's South Side and elsewhere in the county.

News Brief: A proposal to divide Pennsylvania into five regions to give more companies a shot at supplying slot machines to casinos is creating some discord within the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

News Brief: On Wednesday, Bensalem Gambling Advisory Board members met publicly to discuss the slots casino construction plans and their meeting with Philadelphia Park owner Robert Green.

Pennsylvania's ambitious plan to use gambling revenues to reduce homeowners' property taxes by nearly $1 billion appeared on the brink of collapse Tuesday after only one-fifth of the state's 500 school boards voted to participate.

News Brief: As long as it takes. That's how long a citizens' group plans to oppose a slots casino in Adams County, Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Chance Enterprises has not provided much feedback to opposition forming against its proposal to build a slots casino in Straban Township. But it will soon, said spokesman John Brabender.

News Brief: As the clock struck midnight Monday, just one in five Pennsylvania school districts was lining up for a share of the state's slots pie, and lawmakers appeared unlikely to force them to sign on.

News Brief: With slot-machine gaming coming to Pennsylvania, the state is developing programs to help those with gambling addictions.

News Brief: Pennsylvania Governor Rendell was in Las Vegas raising funds from gambling companies for the Democratic Governors' Association.

News Brief: Donald Trump yesterday said he was still interested in a slot- machine-parlor license in Philadelphia, but he backed away from his recent flirtation with the former Budd Co. site in Nicetown.

News Brief: Plains Township Planning Commission got to weigh in Thursday night on plans for expansion of the Mohegan Sun’s Pocono Downs to include a 400,000 square foot slot machine casino.

News Brief: The partnership planning to build a casino just outside of Gettysburg is making enemies.

News Brief: With two weeks until the May 30 deadline for deciding whether to accept slots gambling money in exchange for reduced property taxes, school boards are moving from discussion to action.

News Brief: Hundreds of Pennsylvania school boards remain undecided about a controversial state law that uses slot machine revenue to reduce property taxes.

News Brief: The official steward of Gettysburg’s historic legacy took a neutral position Thursday on pursuit of a gaming resort just outside of town.

News Brief: A casino in Pittsburgh would need a huge piece of land, and its heavy use would profoundly change the city, Mayor Tom Murphy said Thursday.