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EVANSVILLE Mardi Bras, a style show fundraiser to benefit the AIDS Resource Group of Evansville, will be held Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Casino Aztar Conference Center.The show will feature bras and bustiers designed by local artists, which will then be auctioned to show that "Support Can Be Beautiful."Tickets are $25 and include a cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres and entertainment. The .

LaughStub.com's Scot Richardson and Nasi Peretz, the winners of Twiistup's Wild Card Demo Night. (Lisa Borodkin/LAist) A comedy club ticketing business, Laughstub.com , will be laughing all the way to the Skirball Center on Thursday, as winner of the "Wild card" competition for a Showoff spot at Twiistup 7 . Twiistup 7 kicked off at UCLA's Anderson School of Business Wednesday night with a .

NIAGARA FALLS -- Mixed martial arts fighters have won many a match via submission, so it's only natural that its supporters have worked with dogged determination to find a way to persuade lawmakers in Albany to legalize cage fighting in New York State.

RENO (AP) - International Game Technology says it will shutter its cabinet shop in Reno and eliminate 25 jobs. The world's largest maker of slot machines and casino systems says the cabinet shop will close in two months. A spokeswoman said employees had known the layoffs were coming since September. They received their notices Friday. The company plans to contract that work out.

Missouri Gambling regulators vote to close President Casino in downtown St. Louis St. Louis Missouri - St. Louis - United States - Missouri - Metro Areas

Russia's first casino in a special gambling zone will open on Saturday in southern Russia, seven months after all gambling establishments had to close or relocate to four designated areas.

KRASNODAR, January 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The first legal gambling centre in Russia -- the Orakul casino -- will be opened in an official ceremony in the southern gambling zone Azov City in the Krasnodar Territory on Saturday.

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The end of January is traditionally the coldest time of year in Western New York, according to Tom Niziol, meteorologist in charge for the National Weather Service Office in Buffalo. So what we're seeing out there right now is -- well, normal. And while it's bitterly cold and snowy and windy, it can't hold a candle to the Blizzard of '77, which blew in on this date 33 years ago and shut the .

LAS VEGAS, January 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Prestigious European online casino CasinoAction.com is one of the exclusive few to have been awarded Safe & Fair certification by independent standards organisation eCOGRA.

LARNACA, Cyprus----One of the online gambling industrys leading online sites, Royal Apollo Casino launches a new VIP loyalty scheme, as well as an update in its promotions schedule.

INDIANAPOLIS | Gary's dreams of a land-based casino were all butdestroyed Tuesday night.

Home gamblers double down on obsession, delving into the weight, composition and relative cool factor of various types of "casino tokens." Don't let this happen to you.

Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino is facing a substantial fine after a couple of local teens managed to play the slots.

PLAINS TWP. School will be in session next month for the hundreds of dealers Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs plans to hire to staff the table games to be added to the casino later this year.

LONDON--(Marketwire - 01/26/10) - Leading full service mobile gambling solutions provider Spin3 *, powered by Microgaming , the world's largest online gaming software provider, has announced that RocketSpin will launch a new mobile casino in Eastern Europe using its GameWire suite of interactive, real money casino games. The launch of the RocketSpin mobile casino was made possible thanks to .

Prime location for a big contender. Harrahs , the world's largest provider of branded casino entertainment, has announced that it has taken over management of Planet Hollywood's Las Vegas hotel.

Microgaming is renowned for its stellar quality games and its superb software platform. Now this online gaming giant is gearing up to provide players with yet another triple-slammer.

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - 01/25/10) - Kenny Chesney may be taking the year off from one of his giant tours, but Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas has country music's biggest ticket-seller for four shows in its premiere rock & roll venue The Joint . Easily the most intimate opportunity to see the man who's won 4 consecutive Academy of Country Music and 4 Country Music Association Entertainer .

The new commander of Gov. Bob Riley's antigambling task force said Monday an Alabama casino owner may have been obstructing justice when he hired a detective to trail the last task force head, who quit after winning $2,300 gambling at a Mississippi casino.

The new commander of Gov. Bob Riley's antigambling task force said Monday an Alabama casino owner may have been obstructing justice when he hired a detective to trail the last task force head, who quit after winning $2,300.

The Missouri Gaming Commission voted 4-0 to revoke the license of the President Casino. It would close by July 1, but the casino still could request a hearing challenging the decision. "There is a pattern of deliberately putting the President Casino in decline," Commission Chairman James Mathewson said. Casino revenue has become a more important part of the state's economy since Missouri .

The new commander of Gov. Bob Riley's antigambling task force said Monday an Alabama casino owner may have been obstructing justice when he hired a detective to trail the last task force head, who quit after winning $2,300 gambling at a Mississippi casino.

Missouri Gaming Commission votes to close President Casino

HARRISBURG - Developers of the stalled Foxwoods Casino last Thursday received a proposal from an unidentified gaming company to invest in the project and lead its development, a lawyer for Foxwoods told the state's Gaming Control Board today. Lead local investors for the project were presented with the terms of the agreement Monday, said F. Warren Jacoby, the Foxwoods attorney, and a decision .

EVANSVILLE Mardi Bras, a style show fundraiser to benefit the AIDS Resource Group of Evansville, will be held Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Casino Aztar Conference Center.The show will feature bras and bustiers designed by local artists, which will then be auctioned to show that "Support Can Be Beautiful."Tickets are $25 and include a cash bar, complimentary hors d'oeuvres and entertainment. The .

Gerald Coulombe, who blew nearly $6,000 from a bank robbery at a casino and on drugs, will spend 4 1/2 years in prison for the July 13 theft at the Rockford branch of Lake Michigan Credit Union.

CHEROKEE Managers at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel are betting on getting live card dealers as part of an expansion that will double table-game areas.

CHEROKEEThe new version of Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel in western North Carolina will include a room reserved for poker card games, even though such games aren't allowed now.

CHEROKEE Managers at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel are betting on getting live card dealers as part of an expansion that will double table-game areas.

Famed comedian Tom Arnold, whos appeared in feature films such as True Lies and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, will perform his stand-up comedy during shows at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Lake of the Torches Resort Casino in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin on Saturday, February 20, 2010.

The new commander of Gov. Bob Riley's antigambling task force said Monday an Alabama casino owner may have been obstructing justice when he hired a detective to trail the last task force head, who quit after winning $2,300 gambling at a Mississippi casino.

People at a casino in North Carolina could be gambling with their health after officials say a virus most likely caused a gastro-intestinal outbreak.

New York: An era of high rolling at the Wall Street casino will shortly come to an end if Barack Obama gets his way. The U.S. President has delivered his biggest broadside yet against the financial industrys excesses and is proposing .

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LONDON, January 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Dragonfish (http://www.dragonfishtech.com), the independent B2B division of 888 Holdings Plc, today announces an agreement with Lex Online Entertainment Limited, a subsidiary of Centric Multimedia SA ('Centric'), for the provision of online casino and poker.

Central Ohio's new political guessing game: How will voters in the rest of Ohio feel about a change of address for the casino in Columbus?

Internet cafes allow people to pay to surf the internet and check e-mail, but there are some cafes that allow people to play casino games online. But, is it gambling?

During 2004 and 2005, Tahoe-area computer whiz Barrett Lyon got progressively more famous. In his 20s, as founder of a small cyber-security firm that moved to Florida and took the name Prolexic, Lyon had fended off Russian extortionists. The overseas.

The Junior Womans Club of Verona will hold a Casino Night on Saturday, Feb. 27, at The Commonwealth Club, 26 Northview Ave., Upper Montclair.

Central Ohio's new political guessing game: How will voters in the rest of the state feel about a change of address for the casino in Columbus?

LONDON--(Marketwire - January 21, 2010) - Leading full service mobile gambling solutions provider Spin3 *, powered by Microgaming , the world's largest online gaming software provider, has announced that Zero36 Group, the operator of Zero36 Mobile Casino and Mobile21 , has selected its eCOGRA-accredited services to help expand its mobile casinos.

Internet cafes allow people to pay to surf the internet and check e-mail, but there are some cafes that allow people to play casino games online. But, is it gambling?

25 Words or Less contestants have lots of good tips on reducing heating costs, and as usual, some funny ones. The consensus is to wear a sweater, while there is disagreement on the merits of heading to Florida. Only one person mentioned my old-fashioned favorite: long underwear.

Twenty years ago we published a magazine that looked ahead to London in 2010. Our team of experts foresaw futuristic monorails, machines to control the rain, and a city riven by class wars. Instead we have the London Eye, the Gherkin and a population in thrall to the iPod and the mobile phone.

Central Ohio's new political guessing game: How will voters in the rest of Ohio feel about a change of address for the casino in Columbus?

This year's Super Bowl is in Miami, but all South Florida wants to play.

CHEROKEE (AP) Workers are cleaning slot machines with bleach every two hours as a casino battles a virus that has sickened nearly 250 people. read more

The Keokuk Public Library will show The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series from 6 to 8 p.m. in the librarys Round Room. Admission is free. The Aldo Leopold Chapter of Pheasants Forever Banquet begins with dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Catfish Bend Casino Events Center in Burlington.

Kansas, Delaware and Kentucky move to expand gambling in their states -- positive developments for such regional casino companies as Ameristar, Penn National Gaming and Isle of Capri.

WYOMISSING, Pa. & COLUMBUS, Ohio----Penn National Gaming, Inc. announced today it has entered into an option to purchase the site of the former Delphi Automotive plant on Columbus West Side as an alternate location for its planned development of Hollywood Casino Columbus.

It sounds like it could be out of the plot line of Ocean's 11, but instead of breaking into a casino, these criminals decided to break into a Hometown Buffet .

The cataract city will be getting a bigger cash payout from the Seneca Niagara Casino.

Professional boxing returns to the Hollywood Casino with a six-card bout starts on Saturday. The first fight starts at 8 p.m. and the tickets are $20, $50 and $100.

At $20 each, Northampton Community College drew 120 people interested in new jobs that will run poker, blackjack and other Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem diversions.

John Brokopp: Ever since gaming legend Benny Binion began the casino industry tradition of serving complimentary drinks to customers at his downtown Las Vegas casino back in the '50s, "freebies" are something gamblers have come to expect.

LONDON--(Marketwire - 01/21/10) - Leading full service mobile gambling solutions provider Spin3 *, powered by Microgaming , the world's largest online gaming software provider, has announced that Zero36 Group, the operator of Zero36 Mobile Casino and Mobile21 , has selected its eCOGRA-accredited services to help expand its mobile casinos. Spin3's GameWire platform will replace their existing .

A new study shows that a Columbus casino could create more than 20,000 problem gamblers and cost Franklin County millions in related costs. Get the details.

A Columbus casino could turn 22,000 people into "problem or pathological" gamblers who rack up $28 million in social costs each year.

Morgan Stanley said Wednesday it earned $617 million during the last three months of 2009 on profits from its investment banking and retail brokerage businesses.

London mayor says government's policies towards super-rich represent economic threat to capital Boris Johnson today came under fire after telling the chancellor, Alistair Darling, that the government's "ill-judged" new taxes on the super rich represented "a clear and present economic threat" to London. In a move putting him in conflict with his party, the capital's Tory mayor wrote to Darling to .

Cherokee Nation Entertainment, the gaming, entertainment, hospitality and retail entity of the Cherokee Nation, is breaking ground Thursday on its eighth casino in northeastern Oklahoma to be located in Ramona.

Figures just out show the value of advocacy in the gambling arena and highlight the role of mediation in the resolution of disputes. eCOGRA is the online fair and responsible gaming advocate that works with players, operators and affiliates.

Internet cafes allow people to pay to surf the internet and check e-mail, but there are some cafes that allow people to play casino games online. But, is it gambling?

COLUMBUS -- A company bringing casinos to Ohio says it wants the first one to open in Columbus.

The Planning Board last night took a first step toward creating a zoning district in town that could be home to the proposed Crossroads Resort casino.

COLUMBUS - A company bringing casinos to Ohio says it wants the first one to open in Columbus, just not in its original location. It's a move that could open the door for a casino in the Mahoning Valley. Tim Wilmott, president of Penn National Gaming Inc., said Tuesday the casino would be built on the westside of Columbus, on property occupied by a former Delphi auto parts factory.

Figures just out show the value of advocacy in the gambling arena and highlight the role of mediation in the resolution of disputes. eCOGRA is the online fair and responsible gaming advocate that works with players, operators and affiliates.

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The Wilton Newcomers Club is hosting a Las Vegas style casino game night Saturday, Jan. 23, from 7 to 11. There will be the thrill of rolling dice and spinning around tables without losing real money.

Hellboy is the latest addition to Microgaming 's spectacular range of superhero characters. The mighty Hellboy, a product of Dark Horse Comics which appeared through the years in multiple DVDs, films and comic books, can now be played at JackpotCity Casino and other Microgaming powered casinos.

RED LAKE, MN--(Marketwire - 01/18/10) - The Red Lake Band of Ojibwe is opening a new casino, hotel and conference center on the reservation just north of Bemidji on January 21, 2010. The grand opening will be Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 21 through 23, and will include free performances by Powwow Comedy Jam and Crystal Shawanda. This is the second casino in the state (after Upper Sioux), and .

ROSEVILLE, Calif. - A driver whose SUV plunged into a Northern California creek after he was startled when the hands-free device of his cell phone activated, escaped the sinking vehicle by blasting out the window with a handgun. The 28-year-old man whose name wasn't immediately available is an armed security guard at Thunder Valley Casino, north of Sacramento. He sustained minor injuries in .

Genting Singapore Plc is ready to start operating Singapores first legal casino as soon as the city states government issues its gaming license, the company said today.

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - January 19, 2010) - Beneficial Holdings, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : BFHJ ), a casino investment and management holding company, received the honor of having its President featured by Global Gaming Business Magazine as one of the 25 people to watch in 2010 in the industry. Global Gaming Business featured Carolina Navarro as the fourth person to watch in 2010 in the industry .

Revel hopes to get the funding it needs to complete its $2 billion casino project and says that the state sales- and room-tax abatement it has applied for will help the company obtain financing.

NEW BUFFALO -- The local revenue sharing board that disburses funds from Four Winds Casino hired an auditing firm from St. Joseph this week.

Associated Press - January 15, 2010 1:44 PM ET NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A former card dealer at Mohegan Sun has pleaded guilty to participating in a cheating scheme that victimized more than two.

Authorities say a former card dealer helped a criminal organization steal more than $100,000.

RAMA, Ont. - Scotland's David Murdoch shut out defending champion Randy Ferbey to capture the $100,000 Casino Rama curling skins game.

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Chalk one up for the good guys in the war on illegal gambling. David Barber, Commander of the Illegal Gambling Task Force, recently won a $2300 jackpot at a Mississippi casino. After collecting the winnings, Barber resigned from his position on Al.

The Seminole gambling deal is dead. The tribe's blackjack tables could be next.

Defending champion Randy Ferbey of Edmonton will meet David Murdoch of Scotland in Sundays final of the Casino Rama curling skins game.

Banks Bonus Season Begins It is bonus season in the financial world from Washington to Main Street, and the outrage has already begun. As Alexis Christoforous reports, banks could be planning some of .

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If thoroughbred race horses are the oil of Kentucky, then Lexington is OPEC and the Keeneland Auction is its commodity exchange.

Cox Communications is delivering 230 channels of IPTV, as well as voice and data services, over a fiber network to Las Vegas' CityCenter, a 67-acre complex that includes hotels, a casino, residences, retail outlets and entertainment venues.

The commander of Gov. Bob Riley's task force on illegal gambling has resigned because he recently won $2,300 at a Mississippi casino.

PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- As the latest effort to put a casino in Western Maine takes shape, an interesting rivalry is materializing.

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The legal saga that featured the US ban on online gambling and the former CEO of internet gambling company BetonSports has come to an end. David Carruthers, who was indicted in 2006 and accused of accepting bets from US punters online, was sentenced Friday to 33 months in prison.

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LOS ANGELES----World Poker Tour and non-profit organization Chrysalis have teamed up to roll out the red carpet on Saturday, February 20 at Commerce Casino for the most glamorous event on the poker scene: the 8th Annual WPT Invitational.

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Associated Press - January 15, 2010 12:05 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Here is a roundup of weekend activities throughout the state of Oklahoma.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will donate and autograph memorabilia for the Tulsa casino and hotel at 11 a.m. Friday, her manager and husband, Wendell Goodman, confirmed with the Tulsa World.

It's a different kind of homecoming for Edmund Osei. The former Trump Taj Mahal poker dealer was brought back from Ghana to face charges in connection with a string of casino robberies in 1999.

Kansas regulators now have until March 8 to finish a background check on the chosen developer of a state-owned casino in Kansas City, Kan. Gov. Mark Parkinson set the new deadline at the request of the Racing and Gaming Commission. The commission's original. Kansas City - Casino - Mark Parkinson - Gambling - Games

NEWTON, Massachusetts -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The 2009-2010 edition of Casino City's North American Gaming Almanac and CD, released today by Casino City Press, reports that in 2008 gaming revenue in the US declined by 0.92 percent, for a total of $91.58 billion.

A Chinese national accused of laundering $500,000 headed straight to a casino after withdrawing the cash, police say.

NANAIMO Great Canadian Casino Nanaimo will donate $15,000 to the local World Parrot Refuge in Coombs. After a financially difficult year, the World Parrot Refuge was severely struggling to remain open and provide a home to some 700 parrots.

GLENDALE As boxing, in particular Glendale-based Art of Boxing Promotions, makes its second trip to the Jewel City inside of eight months, there will be some local flavor on tonights Glendale Glory 2 card only a fair share less than what was anticipated.

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MANILA, Philippines (1st update) The main investor of a firm behind the $2 billion-worth casino in the country's biggest tourism and entertainment project joins the list of richest in Japan.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was unfairly accused of stealing $100 from a Shelbyville casino.

Nevada casinos' gambling revenue in November rose for the first time in nearly two years, as casinos won nearly $873.2 million from bettors, state regulators said Tuesday. The 4 percent rise in revenue from November 2008 was the first year-over-year increase. Gambling - Casino - Nevada - Games - Guides

Atlantic City's casinos have posted their worst financial results since 1997. Gambling businesses won $3.9 billion in 2009, down 13.2 percent from the previous year, New Jersey's Casino Control Commission announced yesterday. Every casino had lower revenues, including a 22.9 percent drop at the Trump.

HARRIS, Mich. -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Sweetgrass Golf Club at the Island Resort & Casino was honored by Golfweek as a "Best Casino Course in America," the latest honor from influential industry publications for the acclaimed Paul Albanese design.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- A major update to its Instant Games casino software brings the GTECH G2 instant portfolio to 53 innovative games. The total portfolio including download, instant and 3rd party content is now well over 300 games.

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LAS VEGAS, January 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackjackBallroom.com has long been a favourite for online gamblers and fans of online casino games.

PartyGaming , the online gambling group , has struck a deal with Denmarks state gambling operator under which it will provide internet gaming technology ahead of expected further liberalisation of parts of the European gaming market.

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Atlantic City's casinos posted their worst financial returns since 1997. The resorts' gambling business won $3.9 billion in 2009, down 13.2 percent from the previous year, according to data released Monday by the state Casino Control Commission.

Officials say closing a key Lake County bridge serving casinos, a steel mill and other businesses is costing Indiana tax revenues amid other financial losses. Majestic Star Casino Vice President Jason Gregorec told lawmakers at a weekend public hearing that. Indiana - United States - Tax revenue - Steel mill - Counties

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SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - Grupo Beneficial, S.A., a subsidiary of Beneficial Holdings, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : BFHJ ), a casino investment and management holding company, today announced that it acquired the website www.bet.cr for its electronic casino. Grupo Beneficial believes that the www.bet.cr domain name .

TALLINN - Estonia has legalized online gambling in an effort to help raise funds through taxation. The country is hoping to join the eurozone next year and is desperately searching for alternatives sources of income after suffering one of the worst recessions in the EU.

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwire - January 7, 2010) - Grupo Beneficial, S.A., a subsidiary of Beneficial Holdings, Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : BFHJ ), a casino investment and management holding company, today announced that it acquired the website www.bet.cr for its electronic casino. Grupo Beneficial believes that the www.bet.cr domain name .

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It's a done deal at last. Table games are coming to Pennsylvania by the end of the year.

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CHRIS KNIGHT, The Patriot-News Jeremy Jordan, left, deals out the cards, during a Texas Hold'em poker league at Your Place Restaurant in Susquehanna Township.

It's a done deal at last. Table games are coming to Pennsylvania by the end of the year.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today approved the license renewal for Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. The gaming board said Hollywood met all the requirements for continuing operations.

Gov. Ed Rendell signed Pennsylvania gaming reform into law on Thursday, legalizing table games and opening a 90-day window for Gettysburg businessman David LeVan and other potential investors to apply for a resort casino license.

Gov. Bob Riley's antigambling task force asked the Alabama Supreme Court on Thursday to clear the way for a state raid of the new bingo casino near Dothan before Sunday. Task force leader David Barber, whose planned raid with hundreds of agents was blocked. Bob Riley - Alabama - United States Supreme Court - Casino - United States

NEW BUFFALO, MI--(Marketwire - January 4, 2010) - Four Winds Casino Resort, the premier gaming destination in the Midwest, is pleased to announce that it will be awarding a brand new 2010 Range Rover Sport HSE, valued at over $60,000 to a W Club member on Saturday, January 30. W Club members will also have a chance to win a share of $40,000 in cash. Additionally, 165 W Club members won $102,000 .

Every 15 minutes from 6-9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, a randomly selected South Point player will win $1,000 in free slot play that will be available instantly and downloadable in $100 increments. On Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the casino is allowing all players who earn 100 same-day points ($100 coin-in) one chance to spin a wheel to win $50 free play, a $50 gasoline card, $20 free .

LOS ANGELES, January 8 On Friday, January 29, KZ Event Productions and Golden Boy Promotions are pleased to present an evening of world championship boxing when they present Fight Night With De La Hoya and Hopkins: Campillo vs. Shumenov II at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

About 40 Alabama state troopers assembled in the pre-down hours Wednesday for a raid approved by Gov. Bob Riley himself. Their target: the bingo machines at a new, $87 million casino near Dothan that the governor says is operating illegally.

With the 2010 California League opener rapidly approaching, the Modesto Nuts already have set their sights on the midpoint of the 2011 season June 21, 2011, to be precise. That's when the franchise will host its first California-Carolina All-Star Game High A baseball's midsummer classic.

LAS VEGAS: The wife of casino billionaire Steve Wynn says she plans to shift away from the gambling company where he is CEO and focus her attention on charity work as they divorce for the second time.

As Foxwoods Resort Casino kept mum Thursday about the advent of table-games gambling in Pennsylvania, rival Mohegan Sun said it is already preparing to hire 400 to 500 people for an expanded operation there.

City Club Casino and Crown Europe Casino are well into their stride in 2010. These Playtech powered casinos are online gaming giants and they are gearing up for a spectacular start to 2010.

Incredible Technologies, the Arlington Heights, Illinois based company that is the largest manufacturer of coin-operated video games in the United States, recently passed a major hurdle in its quest to enter the casino gaming sector.

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Shares of casino operators traded mostly higher Tuesday -- led by those with properties in Macau -- as investors remained upbeat about the latest gaming revenue figures for the Chinese enclave.

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Struggling under a mammoth debt burden in penny-pinching times, Strip casino giant Harrah's Entertainment is taking the offensive with a press release informing consumers that none of the company's Las Vegas hotels charge so-called mandatory resort fees.

Casino billionaire Steve Wynn agreed Wednesday to transfer control of $741 million worth of his stock in Wynn Resorts Ltd., where he is CEO, to his wife, Elaine, as part of a divorce settlement.

A federal appeals court has overturned the embezzlement convictions of a former tribal manager and members of his family who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Texas' first legal casino.

The co-founder of online gambling giant 888 , Aharon Shaked, passed away on Saturday at age 58 following a difficult battle with illness, Israeli business news site The Marker reported.

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It's recently been announced that Microgaming casinos are set to receive a slot that the casino software giants have dubbed as ground-breaking.

Shares of casino operators with properties in Macau climbed Monday as the latest reports suggest gaming revenue for casinos in the Chinese enclave rose 48 percent last month.

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NEW BUFFALO, MI--(Marketwire - January 4, 2010) - Four Winds Casino Resort, the premier gaming destination in the Midwest, is pleased to announce that it will be awarding a brand new 2010 Range Rover Sport HSE, valued at over $60,000 to a W Club member on Saturday, January 30. W Club members will also have a chance to win a share of $40,000 in cash. Additionally, 165 W Club members won $102,000 .

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The courts may still weigh in, but Penn National Gaming is moving forward on one of two planned casino projects in Ohio. The Wyomissing, Pa.-based regional casino operator purchased a 44-acre site in East Toledo, Ohio for a planned $250 million casino.

HONG KONG, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Shares of Macau casino operators rose on Tuesday on reports that gambling revenues in the enclave in December rose 48 percent from a year earlier, signalling sustained growth in the world's largest gambling market. Shares of Sands China, the Macau unit of Las Vegas Sands, rose as much as 4.72 percent to a near three-week high of HK$10.42, while Wynn Macau, the Macau .

Rapid City police have released photos of a woman robbing a West Main Street casino on Tuesday, Dec. 29.

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Aqueduct Racetrack canceled its card due to frigid temperatures and high winds. The scheduled feature on Sunday, the $65,000 Ruthless Stakes, will be run on Jan. 10. The track will open Sunday for simulcast wagering on out-of-state tracks.

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Some Ohio residents have taken advantage of voter's approval of Issue 3 by enrolling in out-of-state casino dealer schools to learn about floor games.

THEY are usually male, they enjoy playing baccarat, and they bet anywhere from $5,000 to $200,000 a game. That's the profile of a Singapore high roller, said casino industry players.

MACAU Macau celebrated its 10th anniversary of Chinese rule in December, a decade marked by the extraordinary transformation of the once-seedy Portuguese colony into a glitzy international gambling capital.

SPRINGFIELD | For the second straight year, people are beingmore careful with their money while gambling at Illinoiscasinos.

Kevin Kelleys 30-year gaming industry career has spanned nearly every aspect of casino operations from valet attendant to chief operating officer, with three companies on two continents.

This past November my wife and I visited Las Vegas in order to attend the fall gaming show known as G2E (short for Global Gaming Exposition). The show was overwhelming as usual and this year had one additional attraction: the keynote address was given by Rita Rudner. Funny!

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What will Iran be like in 2020? If predicting the future is difficult enough in view of the plethora of factors that need to be taken into account, the task is all the more difficult when it comes to Iran.

The networks limped along without a single Dallas Cowboys appearance in a Super Bowl. On deck: A Cowboys Super Bowl appearance against the Steelers at Cowboys Stadium.

TAMPA A Port Richey couple rang in the new year playing the slots at Seminole Hard Rock Casino.

An 80-year-old man has been arrested on charges he fired his gun outside Chinook Winds Casino early Friday morning.

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