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Bill banning sports kiosks from bars advances
Opponents of a bill to ban sports betting kiosks at bars and taverns hope to make a defensive stand in the Nevada Assembly after the measure cleared the state Senate. If approved, SB416 would prohibit the free-standing sports-betting machines in small establishments with restricted gambling licenses as of July 1. ...
Zip line coming to top of Rio casino in Las Vegas
Why have one Las Vegas zip line when you can have three? The Rio casino off the Strip plans to build a new thrill ride that will zing tourists along 400 above the ground. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/16Q1aUC ) the ride will be called Voodoo Skyline and is ...
Ohio lawmakers advance Internet cafe crackdown
Ohio state lawmakers moved boldly Tuesday against storefront sweepstakes parlors they have come to view as illegal gambling operations, advancing separate bills effectively banning the operations statewide and blocking startups until the ban takes hold. The Senate State Government Oversight committee overwhelmingly approved the ban over the objections of a ...
Oregon Editorial Rdp
Editorials from Oregon newspapers Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, on shopping for health insurance. A funny thing happened on the way to health care reform: Insurance companies began to compete with each other, right out in the open. A comparison of premiums that health insurers propose to begin charging next ...
Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment
Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the past two years, ...
Terrible's Casino to be renamed Silver Sevens
Terrible's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is changing its name and getting rid of its famous cowboy sign. The casino will be renamed Silver Sevens in July when management unveils a $7 million renovation. Affinity Gaming began dismantling the large red, white and black cowboy marquee on Monday. The ...
Equity firm sports betting bill dies in Nevada
A plan to allow private equity firms to wager chunks of cash at casino sports books was scratched by Nevada lawmakers, along with a measure to make federal election outcomes moneymaking fodder for oddsmakers. Both measures died Friday when they failed to make it out of committees. SB346, sponsored by ...
Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner
It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city ...
Macau lawyer says assault was intimidation attempt
A Macau lawyer assaulted in broad daylight in the Chinese gambling haven said Monday the attack was an attempt to intimidate him. Jorge Menezes said the two assailants used bricks to bash him on the head before fleeing in last week's attack, which recalled the former Portuguese colony's shady past ...
Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot
Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the ...
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