2009 August 02 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Posted by: Melissa Johnson - bio | email JASPER, Ala. (AP) - A Walker County man has been shot and killed by a security guard after he allegedly attempted to rob a Jasper electronic bingo hall. Walker

A North Alabama woman is safe and sound with her family tonight and a suspect is dead after an attempted robbery in Jasper, Alabama.

With the state budget battered by the economy, most interest groups staggered away from this year’s legislative session in Maryland with less than they wanted. But one profession emerged largely unscathed: the State House lobbying corps.

Walker County Sheriff John Mark Tirey says it happened around eleven Friday night at “It’s Your Lucky Day Charity Bingo” on Pineywoods Sipsey Road. Tirey says a forty-three year old suspect who had stolen a vehicle at a Jasper convenience store earlier that night entered the business and started shooting up the place. “Armed with a shotgun and handgun the suspect fired into the ceiling several …

Advance file photoD.A. Daniel Donovan (above)is not thrilled with the prospect of legal sports betting coming to Atlantic City Casinos. “It could create a new group of gamblers,” he cautioned. “People who participate in their [office] Super Bowl pools,…

“Can we talk?” are not words one hears often in Donald Trump’s boardroom. But no one — not even The Donald himself — was about to tell Joan Rivers that as she loudly and unapologetically clawed her way to the title of Celebrity Apprentice this past spring.

Green poker table to benefit his childrena s charity, Friends of Eastgate. The table, which was signed by 36 of the worlda s leading players at this yeara s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, was gifted to Eastgate by EGM Green founder Eric Hansel.

Looks like the mythical Apple Tablet (or “Tapplet”) has been handled in prototype form. I can believe that this guy is telling the truth because he’s old-school journalism, working for Barron’s. Not that Barron’s is some infallible and extra-dignified news source, but it’s an establishment and they have to be extremely careful about respecting confidentiality. And since this article is so …

Walker County Sheriff John Mark Tirey said 43-year-old man entered through the front door around 11 p.m., fired his shotgun into the ceiling and hollered: “This is a robbery. Everybody get out of here.”