May 23, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Slot Machines

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Cops Reportedly Raid Bar Over Arcade Game

Posted 04.19.2013 | Miami

Read More: Miami Gambling, Ayman Jadallah, Video, Adam Gersten, Gramps Wynwood, Miami News, Joao Fernandes, Maquinitas, Robocop Raid, Illegal Gambling, Justo Lopez, Slot Machines, Guillermo Schloeter, Miami Crime, Mavis Fernandez Martin, Miami News

Miami police arrested six men and confiscated 10 "maquinitas" -- or slot machines -- in a raid Thursday, just a week after Gov. Rick Scott signed a bi...

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$30 Million? So the Speed Cameras Were About Raising Revenue?

Barbara Popovic | Posted 12.22.2012 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Reader, Taxing Guns, Speed Cameras, 2013 Chicago Budget, Rahm Emanuel, Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago City Clerk, Chicago Charter Schools, Taxing Bullets, Slot Machines, Ben Joravsky, Cigarette Tax, Miguel Del Valle, Cook County Budget, Chicago News

On this week's Chicago Newsroom, Ben Joravsky and Miguel Del Valle say $30 million dollars may be a lot to expect from speed cameras in the first year.

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Illegal Slot Machines Threaten Casino Industry In Tropical Paradise

AP | DANICA COTO | Posted 08.13.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Casinos, Video, Illegal Slot Machines, Puerto Rico Tourism, Slot Machines, Casinos Puerto Rico, Puerto-Rico, Illegal Slot Machines Puerto Rico, Latino Voices News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- He is just one man gambling alone, his face lit by the pink glow of a slot machine in a dark neighborhood bar, but 69-year-ol...

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Construction Worker Wins $1 Million On Penny Slots

Posted 04.16.2012 | Good News

Read More: Gambling, Alberto Lopez Livermore, Penny Gambling Prize, Penny Slot Machines, Megabucks Slot Prize, Penny Slot Machine, Alberto Lopez Penny Slots, One Million Penny Slots, Slot Machine, Slot Machines, Megabucks Slots, Good News News

Alberto Lopez had some spare time on Thursday when rain prevented him from fixing windows at a local school in Livermore, Calif. So the 51-year-old...

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Newfangled Slot Machines Hit Jackpot

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.22.2011 | Business

Read More: Gambling, Casinos, Michael Jackson, Debt, Deficit, Internet Gambling, Financial Crisis, Sex and the City, Slot Machines, Las Vegas, Recession, Atlantic City, Business News

More than a million slot machines inhale $1 billion a day in American casinos. Apparently that's not enough. The machines are undergoing a revoluti...

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Sucker's Bet? Cash-Strapped States Double-Down On Gambling

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.14.2011 | Business

Read More: Gambling, Casinos, Lottery, Online Gambling, New Jersey, Poker, Missouri, Nevada, Illinois, Gaming, Slot Machines, Las Vegas, Sports Betting, Business News

Gambling is on a roll. Faced with mounting budget deficits, more states are expanding gambling options and loosening restrictions in a grab for revenu...

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At Least "Mad Men" Smoked

Tom Cosgrove | Posted 12.03.2011 | Politics

Read More: Mad Men, Gambling, Casinos, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Pokies, Australia, Slot Machines, Massachusetts, Politics News

The popular television program Mad Men shows http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men that the men and the women of 1960's Madison Avenue not only gave us r...

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Slot Machine Maker Will Get First Dibs On All Sony Pictures

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 12.04.2011 | Home

Read More: Gambling, Slot Machines IGT, Slot Machine Maker, Slot Machines, Igt, Home News

LAS VEGAS — Slot machine maker International Game Technology is getting first dibs through a new licensing deal on developing new gambling title...

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"Can't-Lose" Business Investments

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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"Funny how falling feels like flying, for a little while." - Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart I've been making the final edits on ...

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It's Time to Teach Children About Money

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.

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Yonkers Raceway Ex-Employees Busted For Rigging Slot Machines

New York Post | Dan Mangan | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: New York, Alicia Murray, Empire City Gaming Complex, Yonkers Slot Machines, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, Yonkers Casino, Yonkers Casino Employees, Terence Osborne, Donna Cronin, Slot Machines, New York News

It's lemons across the board for three former Yonkers Raceway casino workers. The ex-employees of the slot-machine salon were busted yesterday on cha...

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Stopping Economic Growth on South Dakota's Indian Nations

Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Casinos, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Indian Reservations, Slot-Machines, South Dakota, Politics News

Indian casino profits go to economic development, college scholarships, schools, road and building maintenance and improvement, health care, daycare for children and more.

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