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Lamar Odom Fights for His Life in Las Vegas Hospital, Basketball and Reality Star Found Unconscious in Nevada Brothel
Basketball and reality star Lamar Odom is fighting for his life in a Las Vegas hospital today after a suspected drug overdose. The troubled athlete was found unconscious on Tuesday afternoon at the Love Ranch, a high-end brothel in the perhaps ironically...
Station Casinos Files IPO Registration with Securities and Exchange Commission
Station Casinos is eyeing a return to the public market, announcing this week it has filed the required registration documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to prepare its company for an initial public offering (IPO). Though it's not technically "initial,"...
Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Sued for Fraud Over “Insider Trading” Scandal
Daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have a legal duel going now with a former fan. Kentuckian Adam Johnson filed a class action lawsuit against both sites late last week, accusing them of fraud, negligence, false advertising, and violating consumer protection...
Sex Tape Extortion Plot Involves Mystery High-Profile Las Vegas Business Mogul Embroiled in $200,000 Blackmail Case
A sex tape extortion plot that's just come to light reads like a bad novel about a high-profile Las Vegas businessman who's made some dubious choices that have come back to bite him in the derriere. Except this plot is as real-life...
Wynn Las Vegas Ready for Tonight’s First Democratic Debate
Wynn Las Vegas will host a different kind of game tonight, as the bets will be all about who can outhink, outalk, and outsmart each other in the bid for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. The first democratic...
Federal Grand Jury Likely to Bring Charges Against Daily Fantasy Sports
A federal grand jury in Florida is rumored to be listening to testimony from prosecutors on why charges should be brought against daily fantasy sports (DFS) operators in violation of current law. The Middle District of Florida of the United States Attorney's...
$20 Million Mega Moolah Slot Scooped by British Soldier, Wins Biggest Online Jackpot of All Time
Hitting the big one in the Mega Moolah progressive slot is the dream of many online players. Now, for one British military man, that dream is a reality. The biggest progressive jackpot in the history of online gaming has been won by...
Kansas Gambling Study Finds Asian & Pacific Islander Ethnicities Dominate Self-Exclusion List
A Kansas gambling investigation reviewing the state's Voluntary Exclusion Program found that Asian and Pacific Islanders accounted for 19 percent of the 1,107 individuals who willingly placed their name on the blacklist between January 2010 and August 2015. Considering the two ethnicities...
FIFA President Sepp Blatter Suspended 90 Days, Soccer’s Governing Body in Complete Disarray
Sepp Blatter has worked with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) since 1975 and been its president for the last 17 years, but today the most powerful man in the sport has been stripped of his governing authority and been forced...
Kevin McCarthy Off the House Speaker Ballot, Successor Still Unclear
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) was the frontrunner to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), but he's withdrawn his candidacy following a series of poor interviews. The most infamous of those was one politicizing the Benghazi attack by hinting that the special investigation...