Federal authorities have charged 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding debts. The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Diego unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging the defendants with operating an illegal Internet and telephone sports ...
Las Vegas-style betting games like blackjack and craps are now underway at Rhode Island's Twin River Casino. Gov. Lincoln Chafee and other state leaders attended a ribbon cutting Wednesday marking the official start of expanded gambling at the Lincoln, R.I. facility. Twin River hired 400 new workers and installed 65 ...
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady on New York's deal with its Indian tribes and casino gambling. June 16 Gov. Andrew Cuomo's hardball tactics with upstate New York's three Indian tribes paid off, culminating with Thursday's agreement for the Senecas to pay the state $135 million a year in revenues from ...
Years of talk about building an arena capable of hosting professional sports and big-name concerts yielded an announcement Tuesday that casino giant MGM Resorts International and entertainment company AEG will build a privately financed 20,000-seat indoor venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Construction on the $350 million arena should start ...
The new racino being built in Dayton has cleared a financing hurdle. Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority directors voted Monday to authorize the issuance of $65 million in bonds to finance construction of the 119-acre harness-racing track that will also feature video slot machines. Jerry Brunswick, executive director of the port ...
In the South Carolina editorial roundup for June 11, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an editorial about the Legislature was by the Aiken Standard. It was The State newspaper. A corrected version of the story is below: South Carolina editorial roundup Summary of recent South Carolina newspaper editorials By ...
Roulette wheels spun for the first time at Twin River on Friday as the facility held an early opening for invited guests ahead of its grand opening as a casino next week. The Lincoln slots parlor is expanding to offer Las Vegas-style games including blackjack and craps following a successful ...
A Cincinnati attorney who has acknowledged a longtime gambling problem was suspended from practicing law by the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday. The court said in a 7-0 ruling that Thomas Leksan could seek reinstatement in two years under conditions including completion of a recovery contract with the Ohio Lawyers ...
A former Miami police officer has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for taking bribes to protect an illegal Liberty City gambling parlor. While sentencing 42-year-old Nathaniel Dauphin on Wednesday, a federal judge said his cooperation with an FBI investigation of police corruption surrounding the gambling operation was "admirable." ...
Indiana's first riverboat casino has changed its name to match that of its corporate owner. The Evansville riverboat known as Casino Aztar since it opened in late 1995 started operating Tuesday as Tropicana Evansville. It has been owned since 2007 by Las Vegas-based Tropicana Entertainment, which owns or operates eight ...
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