Gaming
US casino revenue up nearly 5 percent in 2012
Things are looking up for most of the U.S.'s commercial casinos, as gambling revenue increased by nearly 5 percent last year and jobs held roughly steady. According to the annual survey of casinos by the American Gaming Association, America's casinos took in $37.3 billion from gamblers last year, an increase ...
Compulsive gambling funds off pace of new casinos
Tom Leksan lost nearly everything when gambling became an addiction with easy access to casinos. Once an Ohio lawyer, Leksan lost his job and marriage because of gambling, specifically blackjack. He had been gambling for years, he said, but did not become a problem gambler until he became hooked on ...
DERBY LIVE: Orb wins after surging among bettors
The 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs had a field of 19 horses, with Orb topping the field in just over two minutes. He's the newest contender for a Triple Crown in thoroughbred racing. The Preakness follows in two weeks and the Belmont Stakes is June 8. ...
Ohio investigators raid suspected Internet cafe
Ohio's attorney general says state investigators searched a Richland County business suspected of operating as an illegal gambling establishment. Attorney General Mike DeWine's office said Friday that agents with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation seized evidence, but made no arrests at the facility in Ontario. The investigation is ongoing. DeWine ...
Business Highlights
___ Solid job gains in April ease fears about economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy showed in April that it's healthier than many had feared, adding a solid 165,000 jobs and driving the unemployment rate down a notch to a four-year low of 7.5 percent. Not only that, but ...
Mayor, Ill. lawmakers make case for Chicago casino
Visitors to the nation's third-largest city are usually spotted wandering the Magnificent Mile, snapping pictures of the Willis Tower and sampling Chicago-style deep dish pizza, but if some persistent Illinois lawmakers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel get their way, a glitzy casino would be on their agenda, too. Trying to land ...
Casinos brace for impact of Internet gambling
With legal gambling now moving beyond the casinos and onto the Internet, the industry is bracing for the most far-reaching changes in its history. A Las Vegas firm, Ultimate Gaming, on Tuesday became the first in the U.S. to offer online poker, restricting it, for now, to players in Nevada. ...
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Funeral home claims remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died after police gunbattle BOSTON (AP) — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died after a gunbattle with police, was claimed on Thursday. Department of Public Safety spokesman ...
2 plead guilty after Ohio Internet cafe raids
The owners of two Internet cafes raided two weeks ago in the Cleveland-area have agreed to a plea deal that requires them to testify against others accused of being part of an illegal gambling syndicate. The raids were part of Attorney General Mike DeWine's new efforts to prosecute what he ...
Winning NJ Lottery numbers drawn
Here are the winning numbers selected Thursday night in the New Jersey State Lottery: Pick 3 3-5-0 (three, five, zero) Straight pays $231.50. Box pays $38.50. Pair pays $23. Pick 4 6-8-9-0 (six, eight, nine, zero) Straight pays $2,514.50. Box pays $104.50. Cash 5 04-08-11-22-29 (four, eight, eleven, twenty-two, twenty-nine) ...
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