2008 August 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Casino gambling? Mandatory sick days? It appears likely that Ohio voters will get the chance to vote on both in November. Backers of a $600 million casino resort in southwestern Ohio submitted 763,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office today, nearly double the 402,275 valid ones needed to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot. And a union-led coalition that needs 120,683 valid signatures to …

BETHLEHEM The Rat Pack, the late, legendary denizens of the Sands casino in Las Vegas, wont make it to the opening of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem next June, but Carbon County gamblers might. While theyre likely to be a small fraction of overall business, those patrons will be wooed from the south by the Sands and from the north by Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs as two experienced casino …

Phil Mickelson is the betting favorite at the PGA Championship, his last chance to win a major in a year that has been filled with disappointment at the biggest events.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters in November will decide whether to repeal the state’s limit on gambling losses while increasing taxes on casinos and whether to allow home health care workers to unionize.

JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri voters this November will decide whether to get rid of laws limiting gambling losses at casinos in the state.

DETROIT — Greektown Casino in Detroit plans to open its expanded gambling floor Aug. 29, weeks ahead of schedule. The 25,000-square-foot expansion will add about 700 slot…

Lakes Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: LACO) announced today that it has filed a petition with the Ohio Secretary of State containing over 750,000 signatures from the requisite number of counties to place a referendum permitting one casino in Ohio on the November 4, 2008 statewide ballot. Ohio law requires at least 402,225 valid signatures to place the referendum on the ballot. The Ohio Secretary of …

The Chicago Outfit ordered an Outlaw biker to blow up a Berwyn gambling operation because it competed with the mobs own $13 million video gambling machine business, prosecutors charge in a filing this afternoon.

Although the results of testing for lead content that was performed for a Phoenix TV station could not be duplicated and the dangerous levels they reported was never confirmed; but, it has been determined that …