2007 March 04 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

SALEM, Ore. - Oregon’s smoking ban could expand to bars with restaurants, bowling alleys and bingo parlors. The state barred smoking in the workplace in 2001, but some places are exempt.

The tagline for the fight (The World Awaits) is a bit pretentious. The world hasnt paid much attention to boxing lately. The days of Louis-Schmeling II and Ali-Frazier I (when the world really awaited a prize fight) are gone.

I’ve talked with several Vegas wiseguys about how they handicap conference tournaments in college basketball and they all agreed on one thing - motivation is the key. Some teams…

PADUCAH, Ky. — A charter bus carrying 13 passengers back home from a bingo trip struck a flatbed tractor-trailer truck driven by a Michigan man in western Kentucky early Sunday, authorities said.

Alfonse M. D?Amato, the former senator and a poker aficionado, is lobbying to overturn a new federal ban on Internet gambling.

Scott Shattuck, a pharmacy manager from Vancouver, Wash., is in Mississippi on vacation. But by day, he’s more likely to be found “mucking out” a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina or painting a children’s clinic than hitting the casinos or walking the beach.

For weeks Ali Nasser waited for the bomb disposal team. But the arrival of spring left him no choice but to go to his fields, sown with hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs by the Israeli military last year.

PADUCAH, Ky. — A charter bus carrying 13 passengers back home from a bingo trip struck a flatbed tractor-trailer truck driven by a Michigan man in western Kentucky early Sunday,…

A charter bus carrying 13 passengers back home from a bingo trip struck a flatbed tractor-trailer truck in western Kentucky early Sunday morning, authorities said.