2008 September 17 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Odds are youll see 65 advertisements tempting you to gamble by the end of today.   A new study from Saint Marys University found Nova Scotians see almost 2,000 radio, print and billboard ads each month, telling us that if we play our cards right, an easy life of wealth and fun awaits. The high-volume exposure has helped gambling assert itself as a culturally embedded feature of every …

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - We hear a lot about the economic contributions casinos have made to communities, but there are also concerns about addiction to gambling.

BARBOURSVILLE — Little Victories Animal Rescue will host a Longaberger-Boyds Bear Bingo at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at the YWCA, located at 617 Fifth Ave.

County officials want the residents of Houston County to win and win big with electronic charitable bingo.

At 10 p.m. on a Friday last month, it was the usual Mardi Gras at Lumière Place Casino. Sharp-dressed men were stacked up at the craps table, and martinis flowed at clubs named Globar and SLeeK. There was a piano and a jazz singer. It cost $20 just to park there.

The Ho-Chunk tribe and state have come to terms on gambling profits, resolving a 4-year-old dispute.

Police say Pleasant Hill’s Network Bingo still under investigation for business practices; parlor owner insists there is no investigation

The Etowah Baptist Association has filed a motion in Etowah County Circuit Court seeking to stop electronic or machine bingo from coming to the county.

HOUSTON, Sept. 17, 2008 — Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. today announced that it is no longer pursuing any form of transaction or agreement related to the Horizon Casino Hotel in Vicksburg, Mississippi.