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  • The casino floor of one Atlantic City gambling hall is getting a $5.6 million makeover.
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  • Click to watch the Bloomberg Business report
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  • Internet gambling will begin in New Jersey on Nov. 26, after a five-day trial period to make sure things work properly.
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  • Atlantic City's Revel Casino-Hotel is folding its poker room next month.
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  • New Jersey officials cannot put a stop to sports gambling, but they hope to "shine a light" on it by legalizing such betting at casinos and racetracks, a lawyer said in a high-stakes hearing Wednesday before a federal appeals court.
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  • New Jersey and New York illegal gambling investigation
  • 22 people have been arrested and three more are at large after an investigation into a $1 million-a-week gambling ring.
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  • New Jersey and New York illegal gambling investigation
  • A total of 25 suspects were named in an illegal gambling investigation spanning New Jersey and New York.
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  • Internet gambling isn't expected to start in New Jersey until around Thanksgiving, but Atlantic City's 12 casinos must move fast to line up partners for their online operations.
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  • The folks who write the checks that help keep Atlantic City's casinos afloat say Internet gambling can help revive the market's flagging fortunes.
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  • State gambling regulators have approved the expansion of Sugarhouse Casino in Philadelphia.
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  • State gambling regulators have approved the expansion of Sugarhouse Casino in Philadelphia.
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  • A Roman Catholic nun with a gambling addiction has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $130,000 from two rural western New York parishes.
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  • Total monthly revenue from slot machines and table games declined last month for just the third time in Pennsylvania's casino gambling history.
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  • New Jersey has been dealt another setback in its efforts to allow sports betting.
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  • New Jersey legislators gave final approval Tuesday to a bill legalizing gambling over the Internet, sending it to Gov. Chris Christie.
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  • Plus Office Max and Depot in merger talks
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  • Former San Diego Mayor Maureen O'Connor acknowledged Thursday in federal court that she misappropriated $2 million from her late husband's charitable foundation due to a gambling addiction in which she won more than $1 billion but lost even more over nearly a decade
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  • Gov. Chris Christie
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  • Gov. Chris Christie
  • Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have made New Jersey the third state to legalize gambling over the Internet, but he says he will support such a law if it were put on a 10-year trial period.
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  • A casino workers union that has been locked in a bitter struggle with Atlantic City's newest casino is warning investors against pumping any more money into the struggling casino resort.
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  • Get ready for round two of the casino selection process in the City of Brotherly Love.
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  • Pennsylvania gambling regulators say they have received six applications for the second casino license in Philadelphia.
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  • Moving quickly on a project designed to be up and running by Memorial Day, the state Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday it has granted a crucial permit for a $35 million expansion of Resorts Casino Hotel.
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  • Federal prosecutors say they've broken up a massive illegal gambling operation worth millions of dollars centered in suburban Philadelphia that had ties to Florida, New Jersey and Costa Rica.
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  • Pennsylvania's gambling regulators have decided to start accepting applications for the remaining slot machine casino license in Philadelphia, opting not to wait any longer for the Legislature to decide whether to open up the license to applicants elsewhere in the state.
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  • Sugar House Casino
  • Gross revenue from table games was up 7.4 percent last month compared to a year ago, boosted by the second full month of play at the state's newest casino, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board's table games revenue totals released Monday.
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  • A 73-year-old woman is being charged with stealing and gambling away $97,000 from a trust fund for her grandson's college education.
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  • From the moment Dennis Gomes and his partner bought Resorts Casino Hotel, he had a plan to get the struggling casino out of the red and into the black.
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  • Casino regulators are investigating whether the 19-year-old daughter of late pop singer Whitney Houston gambled at a Las Vegas Strip resort.
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  • A new poll finds most New Jerseyans oppose legalizing Internet gambling, but want the ability to legally bet on sporting events.
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  • Revel Casino in Atlantic City
  • Atlantic City's newest casino won about $13 million from gamblers in its first month of operation, ranking it near the bottom of the city's gambling halls.
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  • Casino
  • The nation's commercial casinos continued their slow-but-steady comeback from the recession last year, with revenues up 3 percent nationwide and jobs holding nearly steady, according to a report released Wednesday.
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  • Casino revenue
  • Slot machine revenue was up slightly last month from April 2011 at Pennsylvania's casinos, but there were signs of a possible slowdown in the industry's rapid growth as the state saw just its third such decline ever for existing casinos.
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  • Mild weather and a new casino didn't provide much help for Atlantic City's casinos, whose revenue fell 5 percent last month.
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  • Revel - Atlantic City's newest $2.4 billion casino resort opened its doors to an anticipating crowd of people on Monday.
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  • Casino
  • Pennsylvania's 11 casinos pulled in more than $233.1 million in gross slot machine revenue last month, setting an all-time monthly high since the state's first casino opened in November 2006 and cementing the state's status as the nation's second-largest gambling market
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  • Think of a casino and chances are, what comes to mind is a dark, low-ceilinged warehouse of slot machines and card tables, bathed in cigarette smoke.
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  • The chairman of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board says the fate of Philadelphia's second casino license is now in the hands of the state legislature.
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  • New A.C. casino hotel geared toward low rollers
  • Some casinos in Atlantic City and elsewhere do everything they can to attract high rollers. But now there's a casino for the low roller - no kidding.
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  • New Jersey is moving forward with plans to legalize Internet gambling within the state's borders.
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  • Casino revenue
  • Unseasonably warm temperatures did little to thaw Atlantic City's casino revenue deep freeze in February, with revenue declining by 5.9 percent over last year.
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  • Cyprus' attorney general has dropped gambling charges against about 40 elderly women, including a 98-year-old, whose weekly poker-and-bridge party had been raided by police.
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  • The gambling website Bodog was shut down and four Canadians were indicted, including founder Calvin Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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  • Since it changed hands in May, signs at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City have urged customers to "watch the transformation" from the former Trump Marina Hotel Casino into something newer and shinier.
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