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Casino industry boosts effort to repeal sports betting ban

The casino industry’s largest lobbying group in the U.S. is ramping up its efforts to repeal a 25-year-old federal law that bans sports betting in most states.

2 recent guests at Rio contract Legionnaires’ disease

Two recent guests at the Rio have contracted Legionnaires’ disease, which causes pneumonia-like symptoms, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Friday.

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Connecticut OKs new casino to compete with MGM Resorts property

Connecticut lawmakers approved most of a legislative package early Wednesday that could lead to a new tribal casino being built in East Windsor that would compete with a casino being built by Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International.

 
Space Invaders skill-based gaming lands in Atlantic City

Scientific Games, the Las Vegas-based maker of slots and table games, is launching Space Invaders, its first skill-based slot game, at several Caesars-owned casinos in the New Jersey gambling resort.

Casino industry must innovate, Vegas conference speaker warns

The casino industry may find its business model vaporized like travel agencies, DVD stores and land lines unless leaders transform themselves with innovation, a speaker at a one-day innovation conference in Las Vegas said.

10th-graders get close-up look at Las Vegas tourism

Thirty 10th-grade students from Las Vegas’ Core Academy will get a five-week up-close look at the tourism and hospitality industry beginning next week.

Gaming stocks outperforming tech in 2017

U.S. gaming industry stocks such as Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International have been on a roll this year amid solid gaming revenue growth in Las Vegas and Macau.

 
36 dead after gunman sets fire to casino in Philippines

A gunman stormed a casino in the Philippine capital and torched gambling tables in the crowded space, creating a choking level of smoke that killed at least 36 people, authorities said.

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