2009 April 14 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Strap yourself in pigskin devotees, we’ve got some cracking matches coming at you. Fox Sports commentator and Brownlow Medal winner Gerard Healy takes a close look at all eight contests in round four.

April 14 (Bloomberg) — Station Casinos Inc. , the gambling company taken private by Colony Capital LLC in 2007, won a 30- day extension from lenders, allowing debt negotiations to continue ahead of a planned pre-packaged bankruptcy filing.

THE MINISTER for Youth and Sports, Hon. Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has denied rumours that the Marshall Belieb Committee set up to investigate the February 8, 2009, stadium disaster was meant to witch hunt opponents of the government.

Station Casinos has secured an extension until May 15 to continue negotiations on a prepackaged bankruptcy with its lenders and bondholders, the company announced late Tuesday.

As part of a worst case scenario exercise, all state agencies were asked to cut 30 percent of their spending. The Department of Human Services added treatment and prevention programs for gambling addicts to that list of cuts.

The governor and others may soon face a lawsuit over the raid at the White Hall gambling center conducted by the Governor’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling.

Of all the good and bad attached to Major League Baseball, consider the name Mark Fidrych and begin to balance the ledger. These were some of the things he never was linked to: the cocaine scandal that damaged the sport in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Goldman Sachs made nearly $2 billion in the first quarter or 2009, partly due to smart trades with U.S. government money

Two Middletown men are facing charges for illegal gambling. Middletown police busted an alleged poker game Monday night in a building that was once a Ponderosa Restaurant on North Verity Parkway.