2006 March 23 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Jefferson City police on Wednesday night police took a report of an armed robbery that occurred at Tanner Bridge Road and Monroe Street. The female victim, a retiree from Jefferson City, said her assailants used a semi-automatic handgun and took $40 from her.

Sarah Steineker, 50, is stuck to her seat. She’s got a bingo game going, and the “hot ball” jackpot is up to $14,490. But thanks to mobile gambling regulations that passed the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday, she soon may be able to take that bingo game with her elsewhere in the casino.

· Another truly outstanding music round-up: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at the El Rey; Arab Strap at Knitting Factory; Metric at the Henry Fonda. · Audioslave/RATM guitar god Tom Morello…

For weeks from atop a parking garage, investigators watched what went on a hotel room inside the Tropicana Hotel at 17th Street and Atlantic Avenue at the Virginia Beach oceanfront.

As the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament intensifies, so has the FBI’s mission to educate student-athletes on the risks of sports betting. Jim Acosta learns how making wagers can cost athletes career success.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gambling proponents planned to announce Friday a proposed constitutional amendment in November to place electronic slot machines at Ohio’s seven racetracks and in separate facilities in Cleveland and Cincinnati.

LAS VEGAS ” Regulations passed today make Nevada the first in the nation to approve the use of handheld devices for gambling in any public area of the state’s casinos, such as restaurants and poolsides.

LAS VEGAS — Before Steve Fezzik put money on today’s Texas-West Virginia game in the national men’s college basketball championship, the Las Vegas man did some comparison shopping online.

On May 16, 2005, Home Gambling Network, Inc. a Nevada corporation: & Mel Molnick did file suit in The United States Federal Court for the Southern District for Nevada, Las Vegas USA for patent infringement against the following: SPORTINGBET, PLC, a United Kingdom corporation doing business as SPORTINGBET.COM (ALDERNEY) LIMITED and SPORTINGBETUSA.COM, HILTON GROUP, PLC a United Kingdom