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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.
ATLANTIC CITY — Donald Trump’s name no longer beckons gamblers to one New Jersey casino.
MACAU — Casino developer Steve Wynn said Tuesday that a rival’s new resort in Macau has made him rethink some of the designs for a new casino his company is planning to build.
