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

COLUMBUS, Oh. — Backers of the latest attempt to bring a casino to Ohio are trying a new marketing approach: glitz, local government payouts and inevitability.

A Home Interiors and Longaberger basket bingo has been scheduled for May 16 at the Westernport American Legion for the benefit of 3-year-old Kaden Sharpless.

The McCoole Fire and Rescue Department will hold a fundraiser bingo Saturday for the benefit of former member Brett Kile, who is awaiting a kidney transplant.

His popularity cuts across age groups, his films draw packed houses from Lalbagh to Leicester Square. Few movie stars enjoy the power that King Khan does. The ‘Badshah’ of Bollywood is now betting his money on cricket.

The 2008 Major League Baseball season is nearly 20-percent completed and sports gamblers are trying to make sense of what has happened so far.
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In Ruston, where politics is bloodsport, a new battle is brewing between the owner of the towns only mini-casino and a councilman who wants to raise the gambling tax from about 3 percent to the state maximum 20 percent.

St. Mary’s County went from having no instant bingo machines in operation in any bars, restaurants, bingo halls or liquor stores Thursday night to a possible resurgence of the machines after a Circuit Court ruling Friday.

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Some elders find themselves in the odd situation of arranging bingo games and exercise classes for other elders, some older than them. Carrie Cook, 78, is so busy running the Third Baptist Church’s senior program she has no time to join a senior group herself.