2007 July 13 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

SACRAMENTO - Some California tribes that negotiated gambling agreements in 2004 might help challenge recently ratified casino deals between three Riverside County tribes and Gov. Schwarzenegger.

“If I double that up to 600,000 I’m right back in this thing.”

HARRISBURG - The state’s highest court yesterday upheld state gambling regulators’ award of a slot-machine gambling license to prominent Northeastern Pennsylvania businessman Louis DeNaples, who wants to build a casino on the site of a once-renowned lodge in the Pocono Mountains.

The Kanawha County Commission is taking sides in the table games debate, by endorsing casino gambling for Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center. via WHSV-TV Harrisonburg

Police raided a pool hall Thursday night, seizing poker machines and cash and charging the owner with illegal gambling. via WNNE

LOUISVILLE - Gov. Ernie Fletcher and Democratic challenger Steve Beshear clashed over casino gambling and a stalemated special legislative session in a feisty forum Thursday.

MANITOWOC The Manitowoc Senior Centers annual rummage and brat/burger sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, at the center, 3330 Custer St. A $1 pack-a-bag offer will be good from 2 to 3 p.m. Brats and burgers will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

As casinos in Southeast Indiana see their winning streak slowing, competition coming there and possibly in Kentucky may raise the odds against them in the future.

“How do you spell ‘devastated’?”