Indians use clout in casino impasse - 2004-03-14
A Northern California tribe needed help developing a casino on land 40 miles from its reservation, so it went to a U.S. senator — from Colorado.

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Colorado Republican, helped write three sentences into a bill that will help the Enterprise Rancheria tribe turn the piece of pasture in California's Yuba County into tribal land.

It was one of three instances in recent months in which California tribes sought congressional help to expand their reservations over local opposition.
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Former Indian casino official accused of keeping fund-raiser cash - 2004-03-14
A former official at an Indian casino kept at least $1,300 from fund-raisers until state police began investigating, a prosecutor claims.

Lois Worfel, 47, of Oakdale, is accused of robbing the funds from the man for whom the fund-raisers were held: Kevin Singleton, a casino limousine driver until a head-on crash left him partly paralyzed.

Testimony against Worfel, former transportation and security director of Grand Casino Coushatta, resumes Monday before state District Judge John P. Navarre.
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