2008 March 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 4

Whatcom County Association of Realtors will host a bingo night to raise money for Habitat for Humanity.

32Red Casino player wins over £1 million pounds playing the Major Millions progressive slot machine. (PRWeb Mar 7, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/03/prweb745674.htm

WEST NEW YORK - After more than three decades of running bingo games to raise funds for the Church of St. Joseph of the Palisades, the last numbers will be called tomorrow.

Arizona’s gaming tribes may add a total of 2,908 slot machines to their casinos this year under a formula that allows tribes to increase slots and blackjack tables every five years at the same rate that the state population grows.

John Gambling has been fired by WABC-AM (770), and Rocky Allen has been let go by WPLJ-FM (95.5). The firings are reportedly part of numerous nationwide cutbacks made by Citadel Broadcasting, the stations’ parent company. Citadel purchased both from Disney last year.

Quality Inn, on the Circle across from Southern Family Market, was held up late Thursday night by five men. They got away with money and last seen running on foot. Is it likely the robbery is linked to the Electronic Bingo planned for a themed resort in Houston County?

A plan to cut the tax rate on slot machines to encourage more gambling in South Florida turned tense at a legislative committee Thursday as gambling lobbyists turned on each other and a Republican senator accused a Democrat of drafting a proposal that was “inappropriate” and “not believable.”

The Washington County district attorney’s office announced yesterday that it had received a record-breaking $151,471 grant from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board to fund a crackdown on illegal slot machines. …

Somewhat like the curate’s egg, parts of a US judicial ruling on Internet gambling were good, and some bad this week. The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association emphasised the positive, but key parts of their original case against the US government over the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act were dismissed, although the organisation was given standing to appeal.