Gaming
Woman charged with stealing $5M from employer
A Newport woman stole more than $5 million from her employer over five years, spending the money on travel, merchandise from the Internet and gambling sites, authorities said. Susan Garcia, 42, was arrested Friday after she was indicted by a grand jury on eight felony charges of obtaining property by ...
Lawmakers, AG seek more oversight of casino grants
Indiana officials are calling for more oversight of a public grant program that was designed to use casino revenue to spur economic development after a newspaper investigation found few jobs to show for the millions of dollars awarded. The Indianapolis Star (http://indy.st/10FnhIx ) reported that a Lawrenceburg grant program using ...
Lawmakers, AG seek more oversight of casino grants
Indiana officials want more oversight of a grant program that distributes riverboat casino revenue to communities for economic development. Republican Sen. Jim Banks of Columbia City and Attorney General Greg Zoeller (ZEL'-ur) say the state needs to better track how money from a Lawrenceburg program is spent. They spoke out ...
Chennai official arrested in IPL spot-fixing case
A top official of the Chennai Super Kings was arrested on Friday for his alleged involvement in spot-fixing less than 48 hours before the team was to play in the final of the Indian Premier League. Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of Board of Control for Cricket in India president Narainswamy ...
Saratoga marks 150 years of thoroughbred racing
Mineral springs, gambling and horses. In this world-famous thoroughbred racing hotbed, the four-legged stars who have drawn people here since the bloodiest days of the Civil War actually took third billing coming out of the 19th-century tourism starting gate, trailing the resort spas and the casinos that offered visitors a ...
Defense opens for SC man accused of killing 2
Prosecutors have rested their case after 10 days of testimony against a man accused of killing his wife and colleague in a sports gambling ring at his Columbia home. Attorneys for Brett Parker began presenting their witnesses Thursday in a Richland County courtroom. Lawyers called an insurance agent and financial ...
$35M Margaritaville complex opens at AC's Resorts
Mitchell Etess thinks he knows the biggest thing that was wrong with New Jersey's oldest casino. "There weren't a whole lot of people sitting around New Jersey or Pennsylvania that said, 'Let's go party tonight in Resorts,'" said Etess, whose Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority now runs Resorts Casino Hotel. "I ...
PA Lottery
These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Thursday: Cash 5 19-21-22-32-41 (nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-two, forty-one) Estimated jackpot: $500,000 Evening Big 4 5-1-6-7 (five, one, six, seven) Evening Daily Number 1-2-0 (one, two, zero) Evening Quinto 7-9-1-0-5 (seven, nine, one, zero, five) Match 6 Lotto 04-14-16-21-27-40 (four, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, forty) ...
Say on pay: Shareholders rarely reject CEO pay
Big U.S. companies are required to offer their shareholders a "say on pay" vote — essentially, a chance to weigh in on whether they think the CEO and other top executives are getting paid too much. Shareholders have rejected pay packages less than 3 percent of the time, experts estimate. ...
Indian minister says fixing may hit other sports
India's sports minister is formulating a law to deal with manipulating matches to ensure it doesn't spread to other sports after test cricketer Shantakumaran Sreesanth and two other players were arrested for spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League. "It's necessary that there is a law or a deterrent," Jitendra Singh ...
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