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Pennsylvania Online Gambling Bill Shelved Until Legislature Reconvenes This Fall
Pennsylvania online gambling is being pushed aside in Harrisburg until the fall. That's the unfortunate outcome for iGambling proponents after lawmakers in the Keystone State labored over gambling expansion legislation for the last several months. At 12:01 am on July 12, Governor...
RAWA Champion Chaffetz Grills AG Lynch, While Sanders Shocks with Clinton Endorsement
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was back at it on Capitol Hill this week, as the congressman continues to demand answers about the FBI's recommendation to the Department of Justice (DOJ) not to prosecute Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton. On July 6, FBI...
West Virginia Rules DFS Game of Skill; No it’s Not, Says Delaware
West Virginia and Delaware are two states that have no plans to legalize daily fantasy sports in the near future, and for two very different reasons. Two attorneys general, 400 miles apart, have demonstrated two very different opinions on the legality of...
25-year-old Iowa Casino Industry in Good Health, says Regulator
Iowa’s casino industry is 25 years-old this year, and it marked the occasion with an annual report this week that pointed to signs of growth and market stability. The state’s 19 state-licensed operations posted a modest increase of $21.6 million in the...
Steve Wynn Backs Las Vegas Raiders as Projected Stadium Cost Balloons
Steve Wynn wants to see NFL football played on Sundays in Las Vegas. TMZ recently caught up with the Wynn Resorts billionaire in Los Angeles who told the celebrity news outlet that he's working hard to bring the Oakland Raiders franchise to...
MGM Attacks Connecticut with Defense Bill
MGM Resorts is currently engaged in a legal battle with Connecticut over the state’s plans to authorize a tribal satellite casino just across the border from MGM’s proposed $950 million resort in Massachusetts. The casino giant is suing the State of Connecticut,...
UFC Sold for an Eye-Gouging $4 Billion
The Ultimate Fighting Championship, which Station Casinos’ Fertitta brothers took from a fringe organization once described by John McCain as “human cockfighting,” to a global sports empire, has been sold by the brothers for $4 billion. The championships new owner is US...
New Jersey Online Poker Market Seeks to Share UK Player Pools, as Shuttered Casinos Quietly Reopen
The New Jersey online poker market hopes to solve its all-too-often inadequate traffic by going overseas and partnering with the United Kingdom. Late last week, New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) Director David Rebuck announced an agreement, in principle at least,...
Nebraska Close to Vote on Casino Gambling
Nebraska could soon be voting on whether to legalize casino gaming within its borders after a pro-casino action group delivered 310,000 signatures in support of a referendum to the state legislature this week. The group, known as “Keep the Money in Nebraska,”...
New South Wales Bans “Cruel” Greyhound Racing Industry
Greyhound racing is to be banned in the Australian state of New South Wales following a government investigation that found that animal cruelty within the industry was widespread and systemic. NSW Premier Mike Baird said that the findings of the report were...
