2008 October 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Suburban Stickney could become home to Illinois’ first “racino” if the Hawthorne Race Course horse track and its partners prevail over several other bidders for the state’s only available casino license.

ATLANTIC CITY Despite problems in the financial world and $7 billion worth of new casino development on hold, Atlantic City went ahead Tuesday with a plan to solicit bids from developers who could build as many as three casinos.

You know what makes watching sports better? Gambling. And wouldn’t you know it, turns out that’s a pretty popular way to enhance our national pastimes. Over $2.4 billion in sports bets were wagered last year in Nevada, the only state in the Union where it’s legal.

Guardian Angels Church, Market Street, Edison, announced that bingo is back to two nights a week: Monday Night Bingo, with new games, and Tuesday Night Bingo. Doors open at 6 p.m. and bingo begins at 7:30 p.m. Food, snacks, desserts, coffee, tea and soda will be available. All are invited. For information, call 732-572-5779.

SPRINGFIELD - An ailing bookie avoided jail time by agreeing to pay $50,000 in restitution to state police to cover the costs of an investigation into a sports-betting ring.

Missouri voters will decide the future of gambling in the state in November, and organizations are speaking out on both sides of the issue that has school funding caught in the center of the fray.

ALARM bells rang and conspiracy theorists jumped out of the woodwork when a British bookmaking firm recently felt it had been ‘taken in’ by cunning Asian punters.

A TOOWOOMBA man’s gambling addiction has landed him in jail and his employer chasing almost $1.6 million he stole. Justin James Dewberry was sentenced to eight years jail after being charged with stealing almost $1.6 million.

Gambling casinos in Atlantic City will be smoke free for seven days while city legislators decide whether to continue to delay a previously approved smoking ban for one year, the Associated Press reported Oct. 11.