2006 June 23 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

The soul singer is to perform Oct. 26 at Potawatomi Bingo Casino’s Northern Lights Theater. Tickets go on sale Sept 1. Further information, including ticket prices, will be announced.

Bricked-up doorways are an unnoticed part of today’s cities. So what happened to the welcoming entrances of the zoo, the bingo hall or the town house? And why is photographer Steven Edgar so smitten by them?

The bishop still isn’t talking. Yesterday the chair of the Catholic School District commented on the rift between the Board and Bishop Fred Henry when it comes to raising funds through gambling.

By TOM HESTER Jr. ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey parks, campgrounds, casinos, the lottery and road construction would be among state services halted under government shutdown plans compiled by Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s administration, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

The California horseracing industry has thrown its weight behind “Instant Racing” video games in the drive to offset declining economic fortunes, but a representative of the state’s major casino tribes say it’s nothing more than a smokescreen to break the Indians’ monopoly and give the tracks slot machines.

Keep your eye on the Beat because I’m going to be following the WSOP like a chickenhawk on steroids.

In Evangeline parish district attorney Brent Correil tells KATC he’s just receiving investigators’ reports about illegal gambling in Ville Platte. In May state police busted seven people they say were running illegal poker games at Ville Platte bars.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey parks, campgrounds, casinos, the lottery and road construction would be among state services halted under government shutdown plans compiled by Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s administration, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Wearing a pink jogging suit, her black bouffant secured by a white bow, 81-year-old Lillian Kirschenberg’s angry voice boomed through a microphone on the steps of the Broward County courthouse Thursday.