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Casinos Win Big In July

The latest figures from the Nevada Gaming Control Board have come out, and July was a good month for the state's casinos.

Across Nevada, casinos took in over $1 billion in the so-called gaming win, which is up nearly 10 percent from July of last year.

In Clark County, the gaming win was up more than 10 percent, at over $867 million.

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The Las Vegas Strip saw significant gains, with the gaming win up nearly 17 percent.

Downtown Las Vegas's gains were more muted at only a shade over 2.5 percent, while North Las Vegas, Laughlin and the Boulder Strip all saw losses.

The increase for Nevada's casinos led to a rosy picture for the state's coffers as well.

Nevada collected more than $68 million in fees for the month of August through this past Monday.

That was up nearly 20 percent from August 2015.

Casey Morell is the coordinating producer of Nevada Public Radio's flagship broadcast State of Nevada and one of the station's midday newscast announcers. (He's also been interviewed by Jimmy Fallon, whatever that's worth.)