Rhode Island News - Page 11

News Brief: Donald Trump wants to make a deal with Johnston, R.I., an unassuming highway-side town perhaps best known as home of the state's biggest garbage landfill.

News Brief: Donald Trump wants to put Johnston, Rhode Island, on the map with a resort-casino to rival what Harrah's Entertainment has proposed for West Warwick.

News Brief: A Colorado developer is considering Johnston, Rhode Island, as one of several prospective locations in New England where he and an undisclosed partner might build a casino.

News Brief: A majority of Rhode Islanders want a chance to vote on the latest West Warwick casino proposal, according to a poll commissioned by the promoters of the proposed Harrah

News Brief: Plans to remake the Newport Grand slot hall into the anchor of a new destination resort drew angry words yesterday from the chief sachem of the Narragansett Indians.

News Brief: Harrah's-Narragansett Indian casino backers are seeking to rewrite the state Constitution to allow a privately operated casino and give it a locked-in tax rate.

News Brief: Governor Donald Carcieri vowed Thursday that he will against a proposal to amend the constitution to allow a privately run Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick.

News Brief: Bitter winds and rain couldn't dampen the glitz and glamour Tuesday as three prominent business partners pledged $125 million to transform the tired Lincoln Park dog track into the Ocean State's premier entertainment destination.

Atronic reports its entry into the Rhode Island gaming market with its first VLT installation at one of Rhode Island's premier gaming venues, Lincoln Park.

News Brief: Rhode Island's booming gambling industry is showing its first signs of slowing down.

IGT has been awarded additional placements of its video lottery terminals in New York and Rhode Island, based on the performance of its video lottery terminals in those jurisdictions.

ibbs College in Cranston today announced that it will begin offering a Casino Operations concentration to students pursuing a career in the expanding gaming industry.

Lincoln Park race track and two former executives who were convicted last month of conspiring to bribe a Rhode Island lawmaker with up to $4 million are not entitled to a new trial, a federal judge ruled.

News Brief: Despite a second major legal setback in its effort to break into the Rhode Island gambling market with a West Warwick casino, Harrah's Entertainment is still looking for a way in.

News Brief: The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled Monday that proposed legislation that would allow a Harrah's Entertainment/Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick, would not give the state adequate control and is unconstitutional.

News Brief: The Rhode Island Supreme Court is holding a hearing this morning on a proposed casino in West Warwick.

The state Supreme Court is taking up the question of whether there should be a new casino in West Warwick, and is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Aug. 15.

News Brief: The jury began deliberating yesterday afternoon on the bribery-conspiracy case against Lincoln Park.

News Brief: The Rhode Island Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of the latest House casino plan.

A federal prosecutor tried Thursday to discredit a British gambling executive's claim that he knew nothing about the role of the speaker of the Rhode Island House when he allegedly conspired to offer him a $4 million bribe.