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August 2002
Detroit Mayor, council
extend casino deadline
Three casinos must again wait to know their fate in the
city. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and the City Council agreed Wednesday
to extend by two ... Full
Article
Coral betting chain sold
for £860m
Coral, the UK's third largest betting chain, has been
sold for £860m ($1.3bn) to the private equity firm Charterhouse
Development. The move end ... Full
Article
Detroit Bets Big on Casinos
Mayor Dennis Archer, who championed the casino referendum
approved by Michigan voters in 1996, dismisses such concerns, maintaining
that lessons ... Full Article
Speirtech develops MMS
gambling service
Speirtech, a Dublin based company providing mobile casino
platforms, said that its recent demonstration with Logica of interactive
casino games ... Full Article
Casino ship works to make
headway after bumpy start
The chips have been stacked against Atlantic Casino Cruises.
Sin ce the company announced plans in March to bring a casino ship to
... Full Article
Lawyer to file $700m class-action
suit against Loto-Quebec
Quebec - A Quebec City lawyer who is a recovering gambling
addict plans to file a class-action lawsuit worth nearly $700 million
against Loto-Quebec ... Full
Article
Budget woes drive states
to gambling
At least 26 states considering some sort of betting expan
sion THE HUNT for an antidote to budget shortfalls that doesn’t
require raising taxes has softened resistance ... Full
Article
Ehrlich's slots plan may
be tough sell
If Robert Ehrlich is elected governor and tries to carry
out his plan to put slot machines at race tracks, the Republican gubernatorial
candidate may have a hard time ... Full
Article
Study: Casino not an addicts'
haven
There are problem gamblers at casinos, but not appreciably
more than in the general population, according to a researcher's study
on gambling addiction ... Full
Article
New casino at St. Charles
among nation's largest
For the past five years, whenever Beverly Johnson crossed
the Interstate 70 bridge over the Missouri River and into this St. Louis
suburb, she was struck ... Full
Article
The Vegas Guy: Hollywood
Casino/Tunica
The Hollywood Casino sits at the end of the road. It's
a nice road, four lanes all the way, but of the ten casinos in Tunica
-- America's third largest gambling ... Full
Article
Ads from offshore betting
sites against law
British Customs & Excise is setting up a specialist
division which will focus solely on Internet-related activity. One of
its key issues will be to clamp down ... Full
Article
UN Considers International
Lottery
As reported by the National Post: “World lottery
chiefs met for the first time yesterday to discuss launching an international
lottery that would benefit the ... Full
Article
Siemens bets on mobile
gambling
It's been the one sure thing in gambling: You can't bet
on the outcome of a sports contest once it's begun. But German software
start-up Scaraboo ... Full
Article
Opposition Grows To New
Casinos in Connecticut
Karen Johnson, a Union, Conn., resident, thought the Nimpucs,
an Indian tribe in Massachusetts, had been denied federal recognition.
... Full Article
Internet Gambling - The
Player's Money Machine
"Sometimes a machine is hot, red hot. And that's
when you make the majority of your winnings. Games on the internet are
the same ... Full Article
Gaming, exports drive up
Macao economy
Macau's economy will hopefully be on a fast track this
year due to a robust tourism business, increasing tax revenues from casinos
and more exports ... Full
Article
Debate over benefit of
gambling to tribes
The jangle of coins striking metal at the Spokane Tribe's
casino is music to the ears of tribal attorney Margo Hill. ... Full
Article
Women odds on for a gamble
Women are levelling the odds when it comes to
gambling, with almost half the UK's female population enjoying a bet,
research suggests. ... Full
Article
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