2008 September 30 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

A local bar owner is scheduled to plead guilty Thursday in federal court to conspiring to launder between $120,000 and $200,000 obtained from gambling and drug trafficking.

Paris Hilton has admitted that she enjoys a spot of gambling. The hotel heiress paid a visit to Atlantic City over the weekend with boyfriend Benji Madden and his brother Joel, where she found time to play a …

A new Statistics Canada report shows gambling revenues in Canada have soared to $13.6 billion in 2007, a huge increase from $2.7 billion in 1992. The statistics show gamblers in Alberta have the deepest …

From STAFF REPORTSARABI Agents with the Mid-South Narcotics Task Force and the Crisp County Sheriffs Office seized four electronic gambling machines and more than $700 in cash from a store here last Friday.

One of the two Jersey City brothers who admitted robbing bingo players at a Downtown church received the maximum sentence today, 10 years in prison. Miguel Morales, 22, pleaded guilty in May to the Nov. 19, 2006, armed robbery…

The Russell County Commission is looking into video bingo and how to handle it if a business wants to include it. County attorney Kenneth Funderburke says 15 counties in Alabama including Russell allow bingo.

BRIAN: So, it happened. The names ‘Fernando’ and ‘Alonso’ turned out to be winners in two different sports and in two different continents. Historic, I would say.

The owner of Deep Pockets was arrested on four charges of commercial gambling Monday, said Topeka police Capt. Jerry Stanley.

Global Payments Inc. , a leader in both payment processing and gaming cash access services today announced agreements to provide its VIP LightSpeed® suite of cash access products and services to nine additional U.S. casinos.