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New Brief: Pennsylvania police want to form a unit dedicated exclusively toward criminal investigations, background checks and regulatory control over what could be an explosion in legalized gambling in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: The odds do seem to be improving slowly for allowing casinos at horse racing tracks in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Sources indicated yesterday that Pennsylvania lawmakers have reached a basic agreement on legalizing slot machines in Pennsylvania which excludes tribal casinos.

News Brief: The men at the center of the Order of Fleas club gambling case received federal prison terms Thursday.

News Brief: A key Democratic state senator is dropping his demand that any legislation to expand legalized gambling in Pennsylvania include gambling licenses for Indian tribes.

Pennsylvania lottery retailers will be able to electronically check the ages of customers through online Lottery terminals using a new age verification system.

News Brief: Pennsylvania bar owners said today they would be willing to share with the state some of the revenue from their video poker machines, many of which now are used for illegal payoffs to players.

The only winning lottery ticket for the Saturday’s $213.2 million draw was sold at a store in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Lottery set an instant game sales record for a fifth year in a row, achieving $815,262,736 in sales through May 3, 2004.

News Brief: In the view of many Maryland legislative leaders, Pennsylvania's plans for 12 new gambling venues would create such a huge competitive draw for dollars all but the most die-hard slots foes in Annapolis would be forced to abandon their opposition.

News Brief: Anti-gambling leaders from Maryland met yesterday with their Pennsylvania counterparts, hoping to establish a defensive perimeter against the expansion of gambling in the Mid-Atlantic.

News Brief: The Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pirates and Equitable Resources don't like the idea of having a slot-machine casino as their neighbor.

News Brief: Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire founder and CEO of Black Entertainment Television, may be joining the competition for a gambling franchise in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Governor Rendell has suggeested that his latest target date for getting slot machines legalized, the April 27 primary, will pass without action by Pennsylvania lawmakers.

News Brief: It now appears there will be no vote this week on expanded gambling in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Since Bucks County is rich compared with the rest of Pennsylvania, most county homeowners would see only the minimum 10 to 15 percent cut in school property tax if gambling is legalized, according to a new study.

News Brief: A vote to allow video slot machines in Pennsylvania taverns could come as early as this week, according to state Representative Paul Costa.

News Brief: The year-old idea of auctioning casino licenses has been revived by Pennsylvania lawmakers who say the state could earn an extra $2 billion.

ews Brief: Legislators in Maryland and Pennsylvania are racing to legalize gambling, convinced that thousands of their residents are crossing borders every day to gamble away millions in New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware and New York.

ews Brief: Federal prosecutors have filed papers to seize nearly $5 million from various corporate bank accounts in Belize as part of an ongoing Internal Revenue Service investigation of a gambling business in the Central American nation.