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Family of Vegas Shooting Victim Seek $45 Million from Gunman’s Estate
Relatives of one of the victims of the October 1 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas are seeking to recover $45 million from the estate of shooter Stephen Paddock. The claim comes from the family of...
Australian Lottery Giant Tatts Gets Shareholder Approval for Tabcorp Merger
Australia’s largest gaming company, Tabcorp Holdings, is just one court appearance away from completing an $11.3 billion merger with lottery operator Tatts Group. Tatts’ shareholders overwhelmingly agreed to the takeover on Tuesday, voting 99 percent in favor of the move. Just a...
Ex-Pennsylvania Lawmaker Sentenced to House Arrest for Participating in Illegal Gambling Operation
Marc Gergely, a former Democratic Pennsylvania lawmaker who represented the 35th District in Allegheny County, is heading home to serve his sentence for his admitted participation in a multimillion-dollar illegal gambling operation. The disgraced state representative admitted in August to using his...
Burnett Stepping Down as Chairman of Nevada Gaming Control Board
Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman A.G. Burnett announced on Monday that he was resigning from his post to take a job in the private sector. Burnett had served on the Gaming Control Board since 2011, and been chairman since 2012. Burnett’s tenure...
Las Vegas Strip Restaurateur Mario Batali Admits to Groping Female Employees
Haute cuisine impresario Mario Batali says he's stepping aside from the day-to-day operations of his more than two dozen restaurants, which include three on the Las Vegas Strip, after admitting that sexual misconduct allegations made against the celebrity chef are true. ABC has...
More Revel Atlantic City Sale Rumors Emerge, Owner Glenn Straub Continues to Deflect
Revel Atlantic City, the $2.4 billion Boardwalk resort that's been shuttered since 2014, will reopen in May 2018 under new ownership and presumably a new identity. That's according to Moody's Investors Service, which said this week it's received financial documents from a...
Two Women Find Lottery So Nice, They Won It Twice in a Day
Two women did the statistically improbable and won significant amounts of money on not one, but two lottery scratchers in the same day. The state lottery windfalls were in different states but both in the month of November. Veronica Buchanan of Florissant,...
Online Political Bettors Think PASPA Days Are Numbered, Predict Sports Betting Ban Repeal
The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 is going to be repealed by the US Supreme Court by spring: that's the consensus of online political bettors who are wagering on the issue's outcome. PredictIt.org, an online political betting market...
MGM Resorts Stock a Collective Buy Among Financial Analysts
MGM Resorts stock is up nearly 10 percent from its October 2 trading price, which was the day after the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 victims dead. Comparatively, the S&P 500, which MGM is a part of, is up only five...
Bitcoin Gamblers See Earnings Grow, as Digital Currency Jumps on Futures Exchange
In one of the craziest days for cybercurrency trading in history, the price of a single bitcoin jumped from $16,700 to $16,748 in a matter of seconds on Monday. The decentralized digital currency has been fluctuating wildly over the last 12 months,...
