2008 January 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

A Las Vegas company won’t be allowed to compete for the right to build and manage a casino in the Dodge City area. The state Lottery Commission refused Monday to accept a late application from Epic Gaming for a $65 million complex in southeast Dodge City. The lottery will own the new gambling operation but will hire developers to build and manage the casino. The deadline for submitting an …

A January 3, 2008 memo by Assistant Interior Secretary Carl Artman that contains new guidelines for the consideration off-reservation casinos raises even greater doubts about the viability of Oregon’s first off-reservation casino proposed for the Columbia River Gorge.

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(PRESS RELEASE) — The Which Bingo ‘Online Bingo Site of the Year awards 2007′ have been announced and two online bingo sites are celebrating after collecting the most sought after awards in the industry.

Today is the day college football fans have been waiting for, as Ohio State and LSU battle it out for the BCS Championship in New Orleans. The LSU Tigers…

Littlefield Corp. has completed its purchase of a bingo hall in Pensacola, Fla.

Business Standard Annual Brand Derby picks Bingo as the most successful launch.

The Kansas Lottery Commission on Monday denied a request by the Ford County Commission to extend by one day its deadline for receiving casino applications in Kansas’ southwest gambling zone.

FAYETTEVILLE Springdales bingo balls may stop bouncing soon. A weekly bingo game run by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2952 in Springdale has lost about $1,500 a month since the state legalized charitable bingo in July.