2005 November 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

CALGARY, Alberta â As reported by the CBC News: “A six-week strike by Casino Calgary workers is over, after employees voted 73 per cent in favour of returning to work.

The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 4–The 67 Illinois House members who voted to rid the state of gambling casinos by July 1, 2007, couldn’t have been serious.

By Susan Erler, The Times, Munster, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 5–GARY — Majestic Star LLC will buy the Trump Casino in a $253 million deal that will unite the two Buffington Harbor riverboat casinos under single ownership for the first time and end a marriage that never was made in heaven.

Nov. 4–Ameristar Casinos, a Las Vegas-based casino operator, on Thursday said its third-quarter net income fell from a year earlier, hurt by construction delays at a casino in Colorado. Meanwhile.

A gambling mad financial consultant who stole £10 million from dozens of pensioners and the Halifax Bank spent more than £1 million on racing tipsters alone, a court heard.

State Rep. JoAnn Osmond, R-Antioch, is calling for a public hearing to assess the impact of the Menominee Tribe buying the Dairyland Greyhound race track in Kenosha and turning into a casino complex.

Jeff Haney’s sports betting column appears Monday, Friday (gaming) and Wednesday (poker). Reach him at (702) 259-4041 or haney@lasvegassun.com. This invitational features 16 handicappers who each put up $2,500 to compete in a single-elimination tournament.

PARADISE ISLAND, The Bahamas (PRESS RELEASE) — Kerzner International Limited (NYSE: KZL - News; the “Company”), through its subsidiaries a leading international developer and operator of destination resorts, casinos and luxury hotels, today reported results for the third quarter of 2005. The Company reported a net loss in the quarter of $4.9 million compared to a net loss of $11.2 million in

I do not know the names of my Sportsmen of the Year. They’re six boys, maybe nine or 10 years old, who were playing three-on-three tackle football on a schoolyard field on a ruddy afternoon in Philadelphia in late October. There were no adults around. I stopped the car to watch for a while, because the sight was so unusual. These days, kids mostly play sports with chaperones watching, and games