Today’s Highlights — June 10, 2006

Life is about making choices and, more important, learning to live with and accept the choices you make. For example, for your Saturday entertainment do you choose Verona’s Hometown USA Festival and enjoy carnival rides, a petting zoo and bingo? Or do you head to the Marquette Waterfront Festival to listen to fabuloso music by dumate and Locos por Juana , while gazing serenely at the

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Casino gambling information:

  • Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.
  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
  • During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
  • Baccarat is the principal of casino card games in the United Kingdom and Europe. Blackjack is a fixture in all American casinos.