30 news articles found
Chips are down for US casinos (Malaysian Mirror)
WASHINGTON – US casinos have run into a string of bad luck as the recession and other factors cut into gambling revenues, even as more states move to get a piece of the action. Gaming revenues in the 12 US states authorizing casinos fell Read more...
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White bread gets healthier - Chicago Sun-Times
Stay away from casinos: Some studies show that people on dopamine agonists suddenly realize that their calling always has been professional gambling. Others turn to compulsive shopping. If you haven't been tested for iron deficiency, get screened ...
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Pa. casino fined $100,000 over underage gambling - Forbes
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania gambling regulators have fined the resort casino in the Poconos $100,000 over underage gambling violations. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced the fine Thursday. The board says gamblers between the ages of ...
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DeLeo to frame gambling debate with blue-collar jobs angle - Abington Mariner
House Speaker Robert DeLeo is expected to pitch casinos and slot machines Thursday morning as middle-class job incubators, working to shape the state’s looming policy fight over gambling as a matter of stanching employment losses. DeLeo, long a ...
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Belarus leans toward regulated gambling (UPI)
MINSK, Belarus, March 9 (UPI) -- Legal gambling in Belarus should not be banned but rather well-regulated to raise government revenue, President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.
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Mafioso Andrew Merola pleads guilty to federal charges in N.J. - Examiner
In regards to the illegal gambling operation, Merola admitted bets on sporting events, as well as casino-style games, were placed through an Internet website that operated overseas and by phone calls placed to a toll-free telephone number.
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Bulgaria Gambling Regulator Finds Mass Casino Violations (Novinite.com)
A total of 99 casinos were inspected in a 1 month period from February 8 – March 8, with 45 of them showing violations of the gambling laws and other irregularities.
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MONTGOMERY, ALA.: 2 Large Alabama Casinos Staying Closed For Now (NBC 13 Birmingham)
Two large electronic bingo casinos that have been closed for more than a month are planning to stay that way even though a judge says Alabama’s attorney general has legal authority over the governor’s gambling task force.
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Belarus to boost gambling industry (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has approved a new plan to develop the country's gambling industry in a bid to take advantage of Russian gaming restrictions, a Russian daily said on Wednesday.
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White Hall, Dothan casinos stay shut - Montgomery Advertiser
Two large electronic bingo casinos are planning to stay closed despite a judge's ruling that the state attorney general has legal authority over a gambling task force that he's criticized. Country Crossing spokesman Doug Rainer in Dothan and White ...
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Alabama trooper attends meeting at Mississippi casino - Everything Alabama Blog
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- An Alabama state trooper has attended a meeting on hurricane planning at a Mississippi casino. The trooper's trip to the casino in Biloxi last week came at the same time state troopers and Gov. Bob Riley's Task Force on Illegal Gambling have raided or threatened to raid
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Bulgaria Gambling Regulator Finds Mass Casino Violations (Novinite.com)
Bulgaria’s Gambling Commission found violations of the gambling laws in over half of the casinos it inspected last month, the regulator reported Tuesday.
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Some politicians want to force gambling - Tuscaloosa News
People need to know the ill effects of gambling on the society as they know about harmful effects of smoking and illicit drugs. To just mention a few: A 2004 study at MIT showed that counties with casinos had higher crime rate than noncasino counties ...
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