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New York (Associated Press) - A leading casino operator could become a player in Maryland's slot machine gambling debate. Penn National Gaming said it is considering buying a site in Cecil County that could become one of the state's five authorized slots venues. The entry of Penn National, one of the country's largest gaming companies, could boost efforts to pass a November referendum that would authorize slots gambling.

Providence, Rhode Island (AP) - Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed a bill allowing the state's two slot parlors to operate around-the-clock on weekends and holidays. The bill would also allow Newport Grand and Twin River in Lincoln to close at 3 a.m. on weekdays. In a statement issued Monday, the Republican governor says local residents deserve a say in whether they want more gambling.

More than 300 slot machine halls have stopped operating in St. Petersburg since January 1, according to local officials, as regional legislation now prohibits the existence of such halls in the city. Casinos will be permitted to operate until June 30, 2009, City Hall’s Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade (CEDIPT) said Wednesday in a statement.

The soothing commercials for Proposition 94-97 suggest their passage would offer a pain-free, USD 9 billion elixir for California's budget woes. These measures are neither pain-free nor an elixir. Passage of these propositions would allow four of the state's wealthiest tribes - Agua Caliente, Morongo, Pechanga, Sycuan - to dramatically expand their Southern California gambling operations by adding up to 17,000 Nevada-style slot machines.

The slot machine is undergoing a generational shift. For more than a century, slots have required little more than cash, faith and an ability to pull a lever or push a button. But now, a new class of machines, aimed at attracting younger players who grew up with video games, is demanding something else: skill. Adding an element of hand-eye coordination is just one way slot makers are laboring to broaden the appeal of the insistently bleating devices that have proved so popular among older players.

Canberra - Oscar-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe has succeeded in a long-running fight to have gambling machines banned from the Sydney football club he co-owns in a bid to make it more family-friendly. Crowe and fellow owner, millionaire businessman Peter Holmes a Court, on Wednesday night succeeded in convincing skeptical board members of the South Sydney Rabbitohs to dump the club's 160 slot machines...

A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate military slot machines overseas that take in USD 130 million a year, mostly from soldiers. The bill’s sponsor, Representative Lincoln Davis, named the bill after Army Warrant Officer Aaron Walsh, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot who became addicted to gambling on military slot machines. Walsh eventually was discharged from the Army. He committed suicide after several failed attempts to break his addiction.

Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina is poised to play spoiler in Miami-Dade County's slots referendum. Robaina vows to campaign against the January referendum -- and urge Hialeah residents to vote no -- unless the city's famous but shuttered thoroughbred track wins new racing dates, allowing it to reopen and potentially install slot machines. The popular mayor's strategy to save Hialeah Park seeks to tug at voters' heart strings -- and bring more jobs to Miami-Dade's second largest city.

Oklahoma City (AP) — Oklahoma is now third in the nation in the number of slot machines in the state, according to a study of the gaming industry nationwide, and Oklahomans spent an average of more than USD 600 per capita to gamble. The 597-page study illustrates Oklahoma’s development as a gambling state since November 2004, when voters approved expanded casino gaming and a lottery. It found Oklahoma has a slot machine for every 79 residents and the state’s 97 casinos held 45,289 machines at the end of 2006, representing 5.5 percent of all such machines in the U.S.

The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected a concept of allowing casino customers to use their debit cards to buy ticket in-ticket out vouchers that can be gambled on slot machines. The proposal, which had been requested through a partnership between Global Cash Access and slot machine giant International Game Technology, was denied by commissioners for several reasons. The most prominent concern by the five-member panel was they didn't see the need for that particular system to be established.

Atlantic City will soon become the next testing ground for what many are calling the next generation of slot machine technology. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission last week approved testing of server-supported gaming in Atlantic City casinos. It means that tests will now be conducted of systems that download game content and peripherals from a central server to terminals on the floor. The “server-supported” gaming approved differs from “server-based” gaming in that the game logic will still reside at the slot terminals on the floor.