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News brief: A state senator proposed a constitutional amendment to allow 3500 video slot machines at Nebraska racetracks.

The 2009 World Series of Poker will once again have a four-month break for the final table of the Main Event and will host a $40,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

News brief: A new bill by Sen. Russ Karpisek would allow video slot machines in the state's five horse racing venues.

Sen. Barack Obama appeared at Cashman Field on Wednesday, but a more appropriate spot might have been four miles down the road on the lonely grounds of Echelon.

News Brief: Nebraska and Iowa can team up and legally attempt to block the Ponca Indian Tribe from building a casino in Carter Lake, a federal judge ruled Monday.

News Brief: The federal government says Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning’s lawsuit seeking to block the Ponca Indian tribe’s plans to build a casino should be thrown out of court.

After screening “21” at its premiere, Casino City finds that despite a plot and conclusion that differ from the book it is based on, the film will appeal to a variety of movie-goers, regardless of whether or not they have gambling in their blood.

News Brief: Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning is challenging a federal agency’s ruling that allows the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska to build a casino on its trust land in Carter Lake, Iowa.

News Brief: The Nebraska’s appeal of a recent court decision that pleased casino supporters will not drag out thanks to a recent state Supreme Court decision.

News Brief: Depending on how fast signatures can be counted, and the time appellate courts need to review the matter, Nebraskans might have a chance to vote in November on a plan for building three casinos.

News Brief: The group backing the three-casino gambling proposal are asking the courts to force Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale to put the issue on the November 2006 ballot.

News Brief: Secretary of State John Gale says that a measure asking voters to approve casino gambling will not be allowed on the November ballot.

News Brief: Attorney General Jon Bruning says petition initiatives to allow casino gambling and video keno should not be allowed on the November ballot.

The Nebraska tribal coalition circulating the petition proposing to allow casino-style gaming has chosen to discontinue the use of paid petition circulators.

News Brief: The three groups hoping to expand Nebraska’s gambling options have raised more than $1.2 million for the signature-gathering process, most of it from out-of-state donors.

News Brief: For four years, members of Lincoln’s Vietnamese Buddhist community have scrimped and saved for their dream of a new temple. Now they’re $400,000 closer — thanks to a gift from Powerball winner Quang Dao.

News Brief: Eight meat processing workers came forward Wednesday to claim the $365 million Powerball jackpot, the largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

News Brief: Language for another petition that would ask Nebraska voters in November to reconsider casino-style gambling was filed Tuesday with the secretary of state’s office.

News Brief: Poker players raised $1,950 for the North Platte Children's Museum Saturday at the North Platte Country Club.

The record breaking $365 million Powerball jackpot was won on a single ticket sold in Nebraska.