Walker County bingo brings ethics lawsuit
A lawsuit over the legality of electronic bingo in Walker County has all three branches of government involved in the case, which has more twists and turns than a mountain road in a hilly county.
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Interesting gambling information:
- Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
- Charles Fey invented the first slot machine way back in 1895. He went on to perfect his initial innovation in 1907, when he teamed with Mills Novelty Company who manufactured the "Mills Liberty Bell".
- The second oldest casino hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip was the Last Frontier and it opened in October of 1942. It had 105 guestrooms and the property was made to look like an old western town. The first casino hotel resort opened just 18 months earlier and was called El Rancho.
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
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