Casino operator MGM Mirage says it has agreed with partner Dubai World and the pair’s lenders to finish an $8.5 billion casino complex on the Las Vegas Strip.

Casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. declined to comment Monday on a Hong Kong newspaper’s report that Sands might sell the first foreign-owned casino in the Chinese island of Macau under a leaseback arrangement worth $1.3 billion.

Casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. is declining comment on a Hong Kong newspaper report that it could sell the first foreign-owned casino in the Chinese island of Macau under a lease-back arrangement worth $1.3 billion.

With casinos across the country taking in less money because of the recession, many are also handing out less freebies to gamblers.

Many casinos are handing out fewer freebies to gamblers as they take in less money during the recession.

Casino companies Wynn Resorts Ltd. and Las Vegas Sands Corp. each say they have amended their debt agreements to get more breathing room as they repay billions of dollars.

Casino stocks fell Monday as investors dumped shares across all industries after a six-week rally while gambling investors continued wondering how casino companies would manage debt and large projects.

Authorities have arrested a 70-year-old man in connection with suspicious objects first thought to be pipe bombs left in a parking garage at Detroit’s Motor City Casino.

Several suspicious devices were found in a parking garage at Motor City Casino Sunday, keeping patrons from retrieving their cars for hours until a bomb squad attempted to detonate two of the objects and found they were fakes, police said.

Pipe bombs have been found at a parking garage at Detroit’s Motor City Casino, but at least some of them turned out to be fake.