2006 March 09 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 6

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The chairman of the House panel considering casino gambling told supporters yesterday that the issue will be dead this year if they don’t submit a compromise proposal within a week.

Phoenix - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig promised a book review Wednesday, but little else regarding Barry Bonds. As Bonds prepares for his potential final season and a run at baseball’s all-time home run record, “Game of Shadows,” excerpted in Sports Illustrated this week, offers detailed allegations that Bonds used

TWIN FALLS — The Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone St. W., will play bingo at 1 p.m. Saturday. The cost is $3 for four cards or $1 each. The public is invited.

He’s been a sidekick, a Star Searcher, a commerical spokesman, actor and author.

AMSTERDAM Five people were arrested on Wednesday night as police and tax officials raided an illegal bingo session in Achter-Drempt in the Eastern Netherlands.

The state says an Akron agency that provides reading services to the blind has run afoul of bingo laws. This could force the Written Communications Radio Service to end its programs for 6,800 blind and sight-impaired people in nine Northeast Ohio counties, said agency director Marcia Jonke.

Opponents of the proposed TrumpStreet casino in Northwest Philadelphia say developers are purposely underestimating the possible negative impacts on the community, including increases in traffic and gambling addiction.

Lawmakers failed for a second straight week to offer a compromise expanded-gambling bill, prompting frustration from proponents and putting the hot-button political issue in jeopardy of fizzling out yet again.

It’s not often I get in on something popular with my generation ahead of the curve.