Category Archives: Gambling

By the AJC Editorial Board The numbers are hard to ignore: Video lottery casinos in Atlanta, Savannah and Jekyll Island could gin up nearly $934 million in projected gross revenue by 2014. A sizable chunk of that money could flow … Read the rest of this entry →

There are times when the Casino City editorial team really has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with enough items to fill a top-10 list. Putting together the top-10 gambling industry stories of the year, however, … Read the rest of this entry →

Dec 21, 2011  MIAMI (AP) — Sun-drenched Miami has beaches, South Beach nightspots, a new stadium for the Miami Marlins and athletic superstars like LeBron James. But nearly 300,000 people there are out of work after hard hits from the … Read the rest of this entry →

(NECN: Peter Howe, Boston) Massachusetts already runs one of the biggest-grossing state lotteries in the nation per capita — $4.5 billion a year, with over $900 million of that flowing back to cities and towns as aid to local governments, … Read the rest of this entry →

On Dec. 22, 2011, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved regulations drafted by the Nevada Gaming Control Board that could make Nevada the first state to provide online gambling within its borders. Earlier this year the Nevada state legislature passed … Read the rest of this entry →

LETTER: Gambling Means Jobs Allowing casinos, expanded gambling in New Hampshire would create jobs, keep money from flowing in a pipeline to Massachusetts.

Pupils should learn about gambling, says charity Schoolchildren as young as 12 should learn about responsible betting to tackle problem gambling, the Government has been told.

NIZAMABAD: In a grisly incident, five members of a family attempted suicide by consuming rat poison at their house in Kamareddy on Friday. While two kids died, other three family members are in a critical condition. According to police, Ramagiri … Read the rest of this entry →

Clyde Quotes: Adelson opposes said gambling on moral grounds, saying present technology is inadequate to prevent minors from gambling on the Internet. I agree and, on this issue, support Mr. Adelson. Google – player verification, theres sites and systems that … Read the rest of this entry →