2006 August 30 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

A group representing 5,000 small banks is opposing a tool lawmakers hope to use to stop online gambling, posing a challenge to what is widely seen as the government’s best shot at cracking down on the activity.

Six years ago Dixie Ferguson saw a need in the Pleasant Lake community for a senior center. “We needed a place for the seniors to be,” she said. “Incomes are low and prices keep going up. It’s a way for (seniors) to get out and play Bingo or cards. It gets them out of the house.”

Intermedia managed to get a well-linked press release out , thanks to Google’s new Apps For Your Domain.

While the market’s topsy-turvy conditions this summer have led some investors to feel that picking stocks is analogous to, say, playing bingo, there is one REIT that just might have their winning number. However, the run that Essex Property Trust (NYSE: ESS - News) has experienced has had little to do with luck.

Attorney General Jon Bruning says the conflict over an initiative to legalize up to three casinos in Nebraska is “ripe for determination” before the November election.

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 30 (UPI) — Southern California could become home to some of the largest U.S. casinos if a plan to allow four Indian casinos to expand in a big way is approved.

The issues behind the race to secure a licence for the UK’s first super casino.

The Rowan County Sheriff’s Department is looking for suspects who assaulted three Salisbury men, one of whom was also involved in an illegal gambling arrest the night before.

World Series of Poker Final Table Finisher Has Property and Vehicles Seized It was 10 pm on a Tuesday night in the high-end district of Shavano Park when the news broke on WOAI News 4 in San Antonio, Texas.