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The final shape of new gambling legislation is being negotiated between political parties after the Government partly rejected a parliamentary committee's recommendations...

Lawmakers mowed down a series of amendments Monday to a bill to regulate slot machines at harness racing tracks, then approved a package of new rules that's been debated and refined since December...

THE State Government expects to reap $73.5 million in gambling taxes next financial year. The figure is a $5.5 million, or eight per cent, increase on the estimated $68 million raised by gambling tax this financial year...

BOSTON -- Legalized gambling, seemingly dead after it was soundly defeated in the House this spring, is about to resurface in the Senate. Sen. Michael Morrissey, D-Quincy, is drafting legislation that would allow an Aquinnah Wampanoag casino in Southeaste...

COLUMBUS - A proposal introduced Tuesday would allow Ohioans to vote this November on bringing video slot machines to state horse race tracks and use the proceeds for education...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - MGM Mirage wants to build a hotel-casino in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, N.J., by the end of the decade, the company's chief financial officer and president said Thursday...

State Speaker of the House John Perzel is reported to be ready to introduce legislation to legalize gambling in the state. That gambling would include riverboat casinos, casinos at other locations, keno and slot machines other than at racetracks, which ha...

Confusion reigns again over the Convention Center's future as officials digested one plan to put slot machines inside an expanded building, and another to turn the center into an arm of the state government...

COLUMBUS - A new proposal would require the state’s share of money from video gambling machines at Ohio’s horse-racing tracks to help buy prescription drugs for the poor, provide college scholarships for Ohio’s best students, and build public schools...

Representative Mike Boland of Moline wants the Governor to add a new lottery offering called Club Keno or Quick Draw Lotto.Players would pick a set of number and try to match them to computer-selected numbers and the game can be played every five minutes...