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American conference women's tourney at casino
The new American Athletic Conference will hold its first women's basketball tournament at the Mohegan Sun casino. The conference announced Monday that the 2014 tourney would be played at the resort in southeastern Connecticut, which includes a just-under 10,000-seat arena that is home to the WNBA's Connecticut Sun. The tournament ...
Mohegan Sun ups ante in Mass. resort casino bid
Mohegan Sun has upped the ante in its drive to win a Massachusetts license to operate a resort casino. The Connecticut casino has announced new features in its proposal for Palmer that will increase the project to nearly $1 billion. The adventure-themed park and resort hotel will include an indoor ...
Conn. casino cocktail waitresses fight shoe rules
Cheryl Haase has been serving cocktails for more than two decades, and the 52-year-old waitress says she has a list of foot ailments to prove it. The miles she has walked carrying trays of drinks through the Foxwoods Resort Casino in high heels have sent her over the years to ...
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Iowa gov. may need to OK Medicaid abortion funding DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Catholic, anti-abortion Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad could soon find himself in an uncomfortable position: He may have to sign off on payments for every Medicaid-funded abortion in his state. A bill requiring that authorization is sitting ...
Business Highlights
___ US employers add 175,000 jobs, unemployment rate up to 7.6 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May— a steady pace that shows strength in the face of tax increases and government spending cuts, if not enough to reduce still-high unemployment. The unemployment rate rose ...
2 Ohio casinos see gains in May after revenue drop
Two of Ohio's four casinos bounced back from significant revenue decreases in April and posted gains last month, while the other two continued to see drops in profits, according to a report released Friday by the Ohio Casino Control Commission. Revenues at the state's newest casino in downtown Cincinnati increased ...
Chinese taste for baccarat drives Macau boom
In the nearly three dozen casinos in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market, there's only one game that matters: baccarat. Almost all of Macau's $38 billion in gambling revenue last year — six times more than the Las Vegas Strip — came from card game, much of it from Chinese ...
Bill to legalize web poker introduced in Congress
Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables could soon get a boost from Washington. Republican New York Congressman Peter King proposed federal regulations Thursday that would rescue online gambling from the legal gray zone where it currently languishes. The federal government cracked down on online poker in 2011. But ...
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Clinton clinic to forfeit $229K in deal with feds IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A medical practice based in Clinton says it has agreed to pay a civil forfeiture of $229,000 after receiving and dispensing prescription drugs that did not have a proper warning label. Jeffrey Lang, an attorney for ...
Police: IPL team co-owner admits to betting
Indian police say a co-owner of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals has admitted to betting on his team in the tournament. "During questioning we found that Raj Kundra used to bet on his own team," Delhi Police chief Neeraj Kumar said. "We also found out that he lost a lot of ...
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