2007 April 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Spurned suitors for a license to operate a slot-machine casino in Pennsylvania claimed that state regulators illegally made their decisions in private, ignored one winning applicant’s financial troubles and allowed another to skirt the rules to help him win.

FBI investigators have visited Second Life’s Internet casinos at the invitation of the virtual world’s creator Linden Lab, but the U.S. government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Sumner County might lose its chance at landing a tourist-attracting, hotel-and-casino complex in a bill being drafted to correct technical flaws in gambling legislation approved last week.

COVINGTON - Anyone who has ever been to a bingo game knows that for some players, bingo and cigarettes go together like peanut butter and jelly.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (C ourt TV) - Melanie McGuire’s husband was a middle-class suburbanite struggling to buy his first home, but at the card tables of one Atlantic City casino, he gambled and won like a high roller, an employee of the casino testified Monday at the nurse’s murder trial.

Sedgwick County voters will decide Aug. 7 whether the county will have a destination casino somewhere within its borders and slot machines at the Wichita Greyhound Park.

As a video bingo parlor prepares to open in Iberia Parish, another parish has banned the machines. The Livingston Parish Council voted March 22 to outlaw video bingo.

After much anticipation, the qualification tournament dates for the Purple Lounge/Moore magazine poker tour have been released. via Rgtonline.com

DES MOINES - The Iowa Legislature on Monday moved one step closer to dismantling a requirement that state-licensed casinos locate their gaming floors over water, a remnant from the state’s first foray into riverboat gambling.