Las Vegas Casino Lines' Liquid Vegas, Port Canaveral's latest gambling ship, should be ready to sail sometime this week, a company representative said Monday. Management was "fine-tuning" the vessel, including ensuring employees are ready in all facets of the operation, company spokesman Tom Palermo said Monday. "This is a huge undertaking in logistics. It involves the training of 300 people," Palermo said. "We want to make sure everything is perfect."

The S.C. Supreme Court ruled 4-1 Monday that casino boat companies do not have to report monthly wagers at gambling machines to the state, a move that some say could make it hard for municipalities to collect casino boat taxes. Horry County instituted a [[USD]] 7-per-passenger tax on two casino boat companies in Little River earlier this year, but John Weaver, the county attorney, said Monday's ruling should not affect the county's ability to collect the tax.

Eight months after it started, SunCruz Casinos has suspended its gambling ship operation at the Port of Palm Beach until further notice, according to its Web site. The 600-passenger SunCruz VI cruise ship has been transferred to Port Canaveral. Rosalind Harvey, a spokeswoman for the Brevard County seaport, said the ship is there while the 1,200-passenger SunCruz XII, normally based in Canaveral, undergoes a drydock. "I'm not sure how long it's going to be in drydock," Harvey said.