2008 May 01 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 2

Plain slot machines make a fortune now, but wait until they get broadband.

An armed man stormed a bingo game at a church in Arnold and ran off with at least $2,500 in cash.  The suspect arrived as the games wrapped up at St. Vladimir Byzantine Catholic Church around 10 p.m.

Police in Newmarket, Maryland made an early-morning raid looking for illegal slot machines at a bingo parlor Thursday. Authorities hauled away a truckload of evidence and the investigation isn’t over. Fox 5’s John Henrehan reports.

State Rep. Bruce Chandler calls Washington’s gambling policy “bipolar.”

“Frankly, I don’t like it. I guess it will create a lot of hype. … It seems a little overkill or something to me.”

NEW YORK (Thomson Financial) - Gambling and casino stocks came under pressure Thursday despite a rally in the broader market after Las Vegas Sands Corp. reported quarterly earnings that were short of Wall Street’s expectations.

The state Education Department has released more detailed estimates of how much property-tax relief Pennsylvania homeowners will receive from slot-machine gambling this year.

Columbia police say citizen complaints helped them bust an illegal gambling house Wednesday on Oakland Avenue.

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