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The $1.4 billion MGM National Harbor, Maryland's sixth and most expensive casino, opened Thursday with Las Vegas-style flair and the company chairman's prediction that residents of Baltimore – some 45 miles away – "are going to come and check us out." - MGM National Harbor, the $1.4 billion casino and hotel scheduled to open in December, is releasing details about its features -- including a chocolate fountain and art by Bob Dylan.
- Anxious about millennials' indifference to the machines, manufacturers are testing more social and interactive games
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- An Arizona company plans to begin making the first 3-D printed cars at a National Harbor microfactory in 2016, once it settles on a design and gets it approved for the road.
- With the opening of the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, the city should enter the new era of state-sponsored gaming with its eyes wide open
- Open gambling tables and slot machines were easy to find this week at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, now that the standing-room crowds once common to high tourist season at the world's most famous boardwalk have found other spots to visit and place their bets.
- The Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner Contracting Company has been chosen as general contractor to build Maryland's sixth casino at National Harbor, a nearly $1 billion project on the Potomac River expected to get under way in weeks and be completed in about two years
- Casinos and hotels — an enduring combination, old as the Hotel Apache that went up in Las Vegas in the 1930s, encoded in the law that legalized casinos in Atlantic City in the 1970s.
- Though MGM Resorts International just won the state's Prince George's County casino license last month, the company has had a point man on the ground in Maryland for more than a year.: Lorenzo Creighton.
- MGM Resorts International has been selected by a state commission to build an $925 million casino resort in Prince George's County. The panel voted 5-2 in favor of awarding a license to MGM, which proposed a massive casino beside Interstate 95 at National Harbor.
- With less than a week to go before state officials are expected to award a Prince George's County casino license to one of three final bidders, one of those bidders is crying foul.
- With one week left before they make their decision, members of a state casino site selection commission went over final details on Thursday of three competing proposals for a casino in Prince George's County.
- Putting a casino at National Harbor would bring in more money than two other proposed sites vying for the state's sole casino location in Prince George's County, consultants say.
- By the end of December, the location of the state's newest casino will be determined in Prince George's County, and one of three companies will begin spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build it.
- MGM Resorts International presented an early look Wednesday at the design for its proposed $800 million casino and resort at National Harbor in Prince George's County.
- Three major casino companies are vying for Maryland's final license to operate a gambling facility in Prince George's County.
- The Sun wanted to know who he and other elected officials were calling on their cellphones while conducting public business.
- With the deadline just hours away, two more bidders emerged Friday — one a surprise — to compete against MGM Resorts International for the right to build a casino in Prince George's County, which stands to reap millions from the project.
- Penn National Gaming and Greenwood Racing stepped up Friday to compete against MGM National Harbor for casino building rights in Prince George's County.
- The campaign that won last month's referendum on expanded gambling spent almost $48 million, its share of the most expensive political fight in Maryland's history. But it didn't provide much of a direct cash infusion to the state's economy. Only 4 percent of its spending went to companies, nonprofits and individuals with Maryland addresses.
- One day after voters approved an expansion of gambling in Maryland, the state's largest casino said it would hire 1,200 new employees for table games – even as the ballot question's leading opponent suggested that it will turn to the courts.
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- After the most expensive political campaign in Maryland's history, proponents of a plan to expand the reach and variety of casino gambling in Maryland won a narrow victory.
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- Former Prince George's County Councilman Thomas Dernoga, a Laurel resident, filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of the expanded gambling referendum. If successful, the lawsuit could nullify the results of Question 7 on Tuesday.
- Shop owners, gambling experts weigh in on potential effect of National Harbor casino.
- Candidates for office and advocates for some of Maryland's hard-fought ballot questions hit the streets Sunday in a final bid to drum up votes in Tuesday's election.
- Two companies with a stake in voter approval of a casino in Prince George's County have turned over almost $1 million to former County Executive Wayne K. Curry to run a "grass roots" operation that hearkens back to the old Baltimore tradition of "walking-around" money on Election Day.
- All over the state, Marylanders have been receiving robocalls from celebrities and elected officials delivering campaign messages.
- Casino fight dollars poised to exceed 3 governor races
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