2008 March 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 5

City radio listeners are pouring out their unhappiness over WABC’s dismissal last Friday of John Gambling, a popular WOR morning host from 1991 to 2000 before he switched to WABC in 2001.

A FRUIT machine addict who bullied cash-strapped families out of a reputed £100,000-plus to pay for her gambling habit was on Friday jailed for nine months.

North Carolina’s two-year-old lottery hasn’t fueled a spike in problem gambling, according to a survey of state residents.

Even as House Speaker Jody Richards and Gov. Steve Beshear expressed optimism about rounding up the necessary 60 votes to pass a casino bill, a Herald-Leader survey of the 99 House members showed it had a long way to go. Just 37 House members said that they plan to support the current version of the constitutional amendment that would allow casinos. Twelve others told the Herald-Leader they were …

JACKSON More casinos in Amador County? Hold your bets.

Governor Deval Patrick fired back at House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi yesterday over his criticism of Patrick’s casino construction job estimates with a simple message: Put up or shut up.

In what was a surprise to some, only eight members of the 24-member DeKalb County Board voted against an agreement with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Feb. 20.

INDIANAPOLIS Its now up to Gov. Mitch Daniels whether he wants to allow thousands of bars and taverns around the state to offer low-stakes paper gambling.

An offshore casino with ‘no-limits’ tables, touted as the biggest in South Asia, will open in Goa next month.