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The owners of the Lady Luck will turn redevelopment of the long-shuttered downtown hotel and management of the casino over to Fifth Street Gaming.
George Maloof has been working marathon hours. Most days begin with lengthy 5 a.m. conference calls with the NBA, Sacramento and Anaheim officials, because of the three-hour time difference between the Pacific time zone and the NBA’s New York City headquarters.
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Lottery Commission is extending the deadline indefinitely for developers to apply for the contract to build a state-owned casino in the southeastern corner of the state.
CARSON CITY — The state Assembly on Thursday passed a stripped-down Internet gambling bill calling for the state to develop a licensing process for online poker businesses, a month after the U.S. industry melted down amid federal indictments.
DETROIT — Don Barden, a prominent Detroit businessman who sold vegetables from the road as a child before making millions in casinos, cable TV and real estate, died Thursday. He was 67.
Members of the Clark County Commission last month struck a “private deal” to overhaul the county’s tavern regulations without including the business that prompted the action — an unfair exclusion that destroyed the company’s business model, lawyers representing Dotty’s taverns said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.