2007 March 28 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Wednesday night was the last night bingo players at St. Mary High School were able to smoke while dotting their cards. That’s because of Paducah’s newly passed no smoking ordinance.

PITTSBURGH - A bingo parlor in the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh has been fined $16,250 for violating Allegheny County’s new smoking ordinance, the first group fined since the smoking ban in workplaces went into effect Jan. 2.

With just hours to go before the official grand opening of a $1-million-plus scale model of the famed Las Vegas Strip, builders spent Wednesday making final preparations for Lego replicas of 10 casinos from the smooth black Luxor pyramid to the towering 20-foot Stratosphere, complete with a tiny working roller coaster shuttling green-faced passengers up and down the central spire.

HALLANDALE BEACH The arrival of slots at the city’s two racetracks has not led to an increase in crime so far, Police Chief Thomas Magill said.

SPRINGFIELD If lawmakers decide to outlaw smoking in all Illinois workplaces this year, casinos could have three years to adapt.

Station Casinos is buying up homes in a very old neighborhood behind Palace Station. The company has partnered with a New York developer for a major multi-use project.

Both operations mixed state-of-the-art technology with traditional, street-level bookmaking techniques, like using ?runners? to bring bets to the boss.

FREEHOLD, N.J. - Authorities smashed an international sports betting ring Wednesday that handled a half billion dollars worth of bets over the past 16 months.

FREEHOLD, N.J. - Authorities smashed an international sports betting ring Wednesday that they say handled a half-billion dollars in bets over the past 16 months.