Betting & Casino News Service

An Iowa woman that had worked at her job for over fifteen years was arrested this month and charged with theft. The woman, according to authorities, was stealing from her employer to fuel her gambling addiction.

The brains behind one of the biggest casino gambling chest scams in US history has been sentenced to seventy months in prison for his role in the crimes.

The Macau government has been working on changes to their gambling industry and on Tuesday, Chief Executive Fernando Chui is set to give a speech that could detail those changes.

The US is in a catch twenty-two when it comes to the latest injury to David Beckham. They have lost their premiere name for Major League Soccer, but they have gained another advantage in their World Cup opener with England.

A proposal to add casinos in the state of Delaware is being discussed in the House and representatives are expected to vote in the issue in the coming weeks.

The NCAA basketball championship brackets were announced on Sunday, and with those brackets comes millions of gamblers throughout the US that will take part in the hysteria of March Madness.

The race to replace Governor Robert Riley in Alabama could be one of the most important in recent history in regards to the gambling issue. The outcome of this election could shape the gambling landscape in the state for years to come.

Early Sunday morning, authorities raided the Oriental Market in Burlington, North Carolina and found evidence of an illegal gambling operation involving counterfeit lottery tickets.

On a week when St. Louis learned it would be losing one of its casinos to closure, the city also found out that revenue at casinos held steady in February from the same period last year.

Time is running out on Iowa lawmakers in their bid to pass gambling expansion legislation. With the legislative session nearing an end, there may not be enough time to get any expansion through this year.

MGM Mirage was pushed into a corner by gaming regulators in New Jersey, and instead of conforming to the regulators’ request to drop Pansy Ho as their partner, MGM has decided to leave the Atlantic City gambling industry.

Thousands of people flooded back into bingo halls this weekend in Jefferson County after local law enforcement agencies gave the gambling establishment the go ahead to reopen.

Representative Barney Frank picked up another co-sponsor at the end of February for his online gambling legislation. That brings the total number of co-sponsors to sixty-six.

The first few weeks of Major League Baseball betting is always hit or miss for gamblers, but this year may be even more jumbled with the mounting injuries in spring training.

The company planning to build a slot casino in Maryland is preparing to go to court over a petition that has been circulating, calling for a vote on the future of the slot facility.

Problem Gambling Awareness Weeks is winding down and the upcoming weekend will be filled with seminars and other outlets to help spread knowledge on gambling addiction treatment programs.

The SugarHouse Casino is not expected to open in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until September, but the casino has already asked the state for permission to operate forty-two table games.

North Carolina State and Miami finished eleventh and twelfth in ACC conference play this season, but after Friday’s shocking results, both teams will be playing in the conference tournament semi-finals on Saturday.

For the first time since Kentucky lawmakers began talking about expanded gambling in Kentucky, a Senate Committee has actually advanced a Bill that would bring Instant Racing betting to racetracks.

While the hype has been plenty over the appearance of Las Vegas Sands officials in Tallahassee this week, Las Vegas style casino gambling resorts are still a far way off in Florida.