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Internet gambling restrictions attached to port billNews Story
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement last night on legislation to tighten maritime and port security regulations and, in a last-minute move, added an unrelated measure that seeks to ban Internet gambling. At the same time, House negotiators prevailed in their fight to strip out $4.5 billion in rail and mass-transit security funds included in the Senate provision. The port security and Internet gambling legislation was approved 409 to 2 in the House and on a voice vote in the Sena
Sep 30, 2006, 10:23 am - Lottery News

Another Gamble for Online BettingNews Story
Legal wrangling in the U.S. is clouding the prospects for the industry world-wide Two recent arrests of online-gambling executives in the U.S. are drawing attention to a spirited but so far unsuccessful effort in Washington to clarify the legal status of Internet gambling and resolve the political and legal issues of regulating it. Earlier this month, Peter Dicks, at the time nonexecutive chairman of Sportingbet PLC, Britain's largest publicly traded Internet-gambling company, was arrested
Sep 22, 2006, 7:51 am - Lottery News

North Dakota a Gambling Haven?News Story
Outside the Beltway, way out there in flyover land on the prairies of North Dakota, not all Republicans are lining up to support U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's call to ban Internet gambling. In fact, North Dakota State Rep. Jim Kasper says, My fellow Republicans just don't get it when it comes to Internet gambling. In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which updates the 1961 Wire Act banning sports wagering o
Sep 16, 2006, 12:22 pm - Lottery News

Another online gambling executive arrested in U.S.News Story
More than $1.5 billion (U.S.) in market value evaporated from the global online gambling industry yesterday after U.S. authorities arrested Peter Dicks, the chairman of Britain's Sportingbet PLC. Dicks, 64, was arrested in New York on a warrant issued in Louisiana for gambling by computer. His arrest comes less than two months after former BetOnSports PLC chief executive David Carruthers was arrested, charged with crimes including racketeering and fraud. Legal risk in the online gaming se
Sep 8, 2006, 5:19 pm - Lottery News

Two dads become millionaires, send sons to collegeNews Story
Two new New York Lottery millionaires announced last week have a lot in common; both are from Dutchess County, both are fathers, and both plan to use some of their million to send their son's to college. Sylvester Cuomo of Poughkeepsie is a Union Laborer who buys a few New York Lottery scratch-off tickets every week. On Saturday, August 5th, Cuomo went to his local Getty Gas station bright and early at 6:30 am to pick up his weekly scratch-off tickets. When he started scratching the New York
Sep 1, 2006, 8:09 am - Lottery News

Millionaire lottery ticket trash-diver keeps most of prizeNews Story
The million-dollar question has been the talk of the town for months: Should an 83-year-old Blackstone man share winnings from a discarded Massachusetts Lottery jackpot-winning ticket with the man who said he accidentally threw it away? When Edward St. John found the $1 million ticket last October after sifting through a trash can at local convenience store, his answer was a resounding no. But the family of Kevin Donovan , who said he tossed the Hold 'em Poker scratch ticket, took matters t
Aug 28, 2006, 10:20 am - Lottery News

Kansas Lottery's 'Pocket slots' a hit with playersNews Story
Battery-powered game has nearly sold out after little more than a month, so Kansas Lottery plans more. The Kansas Lottery's pocket slots game is approaching sellout after just five weeks of retail sales. The battery-powered Super 7's instant-winner game is flying off the shelves, said lottery director Ed Van Petten, and two more batches, including a poker-themed version, were ordered this week for sales through the end of the year. Kansas last month became the second state to offe
Jul 28, 2006, 8:57 am - Lottery News

Bill would allow state leaders to remove N.C. lottery commissionersNews Story
North Carolina lottery commissioners could be stripped of their appointments for just cause under a bill recommended Tuesday by a House committee. The change comes after Kevin Geddings resigned from the commission last November as it was revealed he had worked for Scientific Games Corp., a company that tried unsuccessfully to win North Carolina's lottery business. House Speaker Jim Black appointed Geddings, but said later he wouldn't have had he known about Geddings' work with Scientific G
Jul 26, 2006, 4:35 pm - Lottery News

Responsible gamblers threatened by anti-gambling billNews Story
Joe Callari is 27. He's a college student. He has no wife, no kids. He works about four hours a day. And he says he makes nearly twice as much in a year as the average Joplin household. About six months ago, Callari, a psychology and business major at Missouri Southern State University, quit his job as a manager at a local Hastings store to take on a slightly more profitable venture playing online poker. Callari said he makes $40 an hour in his new gig he sets his own hours an
Jul 21, 2006, 7:09 am - Lottery News

Sports-Betting Operation Shuts Web SiteNews Story
An offshore sports-betting operation targeted by U.S. prosecutors shut down its Web site Tuesday night, a day after a federal judge ordered the company to stop letting Americans place wagers. BetOnSports PLC said it was temporarily stopping all transactions while it reviewed the situation. Earlier on Tuesday, the site had appeared to be operating normally, offering bets on Major League baseball and season-opening college football games. The company's founder, Gary Stephen Kaplan, the
Jul 19, 2006, 9:24 am - Lottery News