2008 April 15 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Dave Fuller stands alone among East County mayors in support of a proposed casino project in Wood Village, but hes not staking the citys future on it.

April 16 (Bloomberg) — Malaysia’s Landmarks Bhd. , backed by Asia’s largest gambling company, hopes to build Indonesia’s first legalized casinos in a $3.1 billion resort project to compete with Las Vegas Sands Corp. in Singapore.

Gamblers have spent millions of dollars since slot machine parlors opened across Pennsylvania and now state officials say $612 million is available for school property tax relief.

Spring is in the air, the birds are chirping and the towns notable couples are hooking up and splitting up like wild dogs on the prairie. In recent weeks, socialites Byrdie Bell and Bingo Gubelmann split.  read more »

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(KMOV)- The President Casino reopened on Tuesday after high water threatened the facility last weekend. The Mississippi River level in downtown St. Louis forced the casino to close for the first time in 6 years.

Nearly 20 people charged in a high-stakes poker game have pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of unlawful gaming and were fined. via Myrtle Beach Online

Legislation to change how, and possibly where, new Indian casinos are built in California cleared its first hurdle today at the state Capitol. For years, the most controversial part of the tribal gaming process has been casinos proposed for land that either isnt an ancestral reservation or land that the federal government hasnt yet recognized as […]

Most homeowners in Pennsylvania could get an average $169 reduction on their next school property tax bill as the state begins to distribute its take from slot-machine gambling in casinos.