2007 April 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 5

Now what? The Kansas Senate by a one-vote margin last week passed and sent to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius legislation that would allow slot machines at three racetracks and up to four state-owned casinos.

Chances are that the Isle Casino & Racing at Pompano Park, the latest Broward race track scheduled to debut slot machines, will open April 11.

Horry County Council will consider charging casino boats a boarding fee and scaling back a recently passed tax break for county boat owners when it meets tonight in Conway.

A new blog is providing Americans with legal information on how to carry on gambling at online casinos, even after a ban was supposed to curtail this activity. (PRWeb Apr 3, 2007)

HELENA - The Senate effectively killed a bill Monday to raise gambling taxes to provide health care coverage for all children, but it may not be the end of the issue.

UNION CITY - A teacher and high school football coach in the Union City school system was among the nine Hudson County residents arrested Wednesday in connection with an Internet sports betting ring.

In the year before he died, William McGuire won more than $26,600 gambling at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, but did not visit the casino around the time prosecutors say he was fatally shot and dismembered, a gaming hall supervisor testified yesterday.

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.

DARTMOUTH Massachusetts continues to supply the biggest share of gamblers to Connecticut’s two casino resorts, but it’s not enough and they’ll try to get more, says Dr. Clyde W. Barrow, director of the UMass Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis.