2005 August 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Littlefield Corporation announces that a Texas corporate subsidiary has entered into a definitive contract to acquire a bingo hall in Texas. The details of the contract are being held confidential in accordance with the contract terms.

One of Rochester’s favorite pastimes is in jeopardy because of the state’s smoking ban. Area bingo halls say they are having a tough time staying in business without smokers.

People itching to win a few dollars did more scratching in the past year, helping the Virginia Lottery turn a record profit of $423.5 million.

SALEM The state lottery’s sports betting game would end in two years, removing an obstacle to attracting National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament games, under a House-passed bill approved Wednesday by the Senate Budget Committee.

PITTSBURGH - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s slot-machine gambling law.

A WOMAN who scammed $135,000 from seven elderly men she met through lonely heart ads has told a Sydney court she needed the money to feed her gambling habit and to support her son’s heroin addiction.

WHEELING, West Virginia â As reported by the Wheeling Intelligencer: “City Manager Robert Herron on Tuesday presented city council with information about how other West Virginia cities are battling the rise of video gambling parlors.

” As reported by the Yuba Appeal-Democrat: “Yuba County voters will have their say this November about whether they want a tribal hotel-casino in their backyard.

The excitement is growing in Mega Millions. The Tuesday, August 2 drawing produced a total of 394,586 winning tickets from coast to coast.