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The National Basketball Association's governing body yesterday voted to allow the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas to accept bets on league games. 

A decision to allow gambling advertising on search engines in the U.K. is increasing spending by gambling firms on Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google.

A Cape Girardeau businessman, a state lawmaker and gambling critics contended the proposal illegally mixed multiple subjects in an attempt to "logroll" voters and was unfairly summarized on the ballot.

The casino went live just last week and further expands the leisure offering includes sports spread betting, sports binary betting and fixed-odds sports betting.

A consulting firm called the Olympia Group this week released a study outlining the projected economic impact of the proposed Oxford Highlands Resort-Spa-Casino in Oxford County, Maine.

The government-appointed committee has recommended that casinos, which currently operate as private clubs in Ireland, be licensed and supervised by a regulator.

The billionaire CEO of Las Vegas Sands, Sheldon Adelson, this week invested $475 million in the casino company to strengthen its capital.

In a bold move, the developer of a major real estate project in downtown Miami is conducting a campaign to amend Florida's Constitution to allow Las Vegas-style casinos in the city and pave the way for a new casino at Miami Beach's famed Fontainebleau Hotel.

A new, California casino is looking to hire staff and has been overwhelmed with applicants.
The Red Hawk Casino is set to open later this year, but has already opened a hiring office in El Dorado Hills.

The Ho-Chunk Indian tribe of Wisconsin agreed to pay the state $60 million to solve a gambling compact dispute that left a gaping hole in the state budget.

A Las Vegas developer announced this week it will spearhead a referendum drive for a casino in Oxford County, Maine.  The developer pledged to spend $100 million to make it a reality if state voters give their approval in seven weeks.

One of the two casinos proposed for downtown Philadelphia could be built at the Gallery at Market East mall, according to a spokesman for City Councilman Frank DiCicco.

To survive emerging competition from Pennsylvania and New York slots parlors, the Atlantic City is poised to expand casino gambling into areas that were never imagined when gambling was approved here in the 1970s.

Gambling is growing overseas -- both online and at casinos. A massive surge in Macau's population is bringing increasing growing pains to the Chinese territory, government officials said.

Gambling in Sun International's casinos is growing. New figures emerged today from the leisure group's results for the year ending June 30, 2008.

A federal judge refused to rule -- as opponents had wanted -- that a casino already operating on Indian land in New York state should be shuttered.

Government gambling officials in Nevada voted this week to approve a management restructuring for Tropicana Entertainment LLC, which owns 11 casinos in America.

Pub owners in the U.K. may start installing slot machines as part of an industry plan to attract new customers. The plan has been proposed by industry leaders who think installing "one-armed bandits" outside pubs could help invigorate sales.

A poll from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute discovered that 60 percent of 1,342 surveyed likely Ohio voters support an initiative to approve the state’s first gambling casino. Only 35 percent oppose the concept.

Missouri's casinos are growing. The most recent report from the Missouri Gaming Commission show that overall casino gambling revenue rose 7 percent in July to $146.9 million, up from $136.9 million last year at this time.

The businessmen, led by Don Barden, of Detroit, are seeking to transfer their slots license to a new group headed by Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm. Barden would keep a minority stake in the project.

A new report indicates that the British Columbia Lottery Corp. had record revenues last year of $2.6 billion. The revenues were $64 million more than experts had anticipated,...

South African President Thabo Mbeki has signed a National Gambling Amendment Bill into law, just a few months after the bill was approved by the Parliament.

The American Indian tribe which plans to build a casino resort complex at the old Point Molate Naval Base near San Jose, Calif. has found a new partner — another tribe that runs a popular Cache Creek casino resort in Yolo County.

Baccarat is driving Macau's casino revenue growth. Sales in the former Portugese colony rose 48 percent in the second-quarter, according to a government report.

The Illinois Gaming Board is planning to sell the state's last available casino license by the end of the year. The goal is to finally get revenue out of the long-unsold license by next summer.

A new, fully outfitted cargo van is being donated by Ameristar Casinos to the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana during a celebration marking the rebranding of its East Chicago, Ind., casino this weekend.

A new poll shows that residents of New Bedford, Mass. "strongly support" location of a casino there, according to a new poll the UMass-Dartmouth Center for Policy and Analysis. The poll was released on Monday.

State officials are easing gambling rules for high-rollers in Indiana. Regulators last week approved a rule change that will spur more group trips that usually include free meals or rooms for gamblers.

Government officials are this week planning hearing for a special use permit request for a proposed new casino and hotel in Dayton, Nevada.

Entertainment conglomerate Harrah's is lobbying the U.K. government to get approval for an increase in the number of casinos there.

Powered by the local delivery of federal tax rebate checks, Louisiana's casinos reported a 10.4 percent increase in revenue from gambling in May.

Bermuda is making some major changes to the rules controlling cruise ships visiting the country. The nation's legislature this week approved a plan to let ships operate shops, bars, casinos and other entertainment venues...

The Indiana Live Casino, near Indianapolis, received approved from the state Gaming Commission to operate, and will officially open today.

The thriving gambling resorts in Asia are set to supplant the U.S. in casino gaming revenue by 2012, according to a global industry survey released this week.