James Packer's Macau casino joint venture and the poker machine maker Aristocrat Leisure have been hit by further headwinds with gaming revenues in the territory falling for the third consecutive quarter. Gaming revenues in Macau slumped 7 per cent in the three months to December 31 to 24 billion patacas (AUD 4.5 billion), compared to growth of up to 67 per cent in 2007. They include bets on table games and on poker machines in casinos.

Hammond - State and federal authorities are conducting a joint investigation into how an enclosed walkway at Horseshoe Casino collapsed Tuesday morning, sending several construction workers into Lake Michigan and injuring one. The U.S. Coast Guard and the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration are expected to determine today which agency will lead the investigation, said Jeffry Carter, Indiana's deputy commissioner of labor.

Hammond, Indiana (AP) - An enclosed walkway being attached to a floating casino on Lake Michigan slipped Tuesday as it was being attached, sending seven construction workers into the water, authorities said. After the workers fell, nine other workers jumped into the water to help them, including two men who were briefly trapped inside the fallen walkway, said Kevin Margraf, chief fire inspector for the Hammond Fire Department.

Las Vegas: A section of a multistory parking garage under construction collapsed Monday, less than a week after one worker died from a 30-foot (9-meter) fall, authorities said. No one was injured when three levels of concrete slabs collapsed with a pancake effect at the casino-resort building site on the Las Vegas Strip, Clark County fire spokesman Scott Allison said.