State liquor control agents and police raided a Frackville address shortly after midnight Sunday and confiscated $34,185, four video slot machines and several football pools.

The raid, at 305-307 S. Third St., was conducted at 12:05 a.m., according to a report issued by the state Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement.

State gambling regulators have scheduled 13 days of hearings in April and May on the proposed locations of slot-machine gambling parlors at nine places around the state.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will take testimony from the casino applicants, local government officials, community organizations, and residents.

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When the Monday series "Las Vegas" premiered on NBC in September 2003, the network was vying with CBS for the top spot in the ratings.

By the time the show started its third season in September 2005, NBC was wrestling Fox for the No. 3 slot. And of the six shows that premiered on NBC that fall - the others being "Whoopi," "Happy Family," "Coupling," "Miss Match" and "The Lyon's Den" - only "Las Vegas" is still on the air.

Military-owned slot machines take in $2 billion a year at U.S. bases around the world. Net losses by the service men and women come to $120 million, plus another $7 million from Army bingo games on bases in this country.

One justification given by military spokespersons is that the proceeds from what amounts to a thriving business help pay for golf courses, bowling alleys, basketball courts and other recreational facilities for the troops.

A Cape Coral man who won $2 million in the Mega Money jackpot nearly a month ago claimed his prize Thursday.

James Coleman, 56, arrived at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee on Thursday and chose a one-time payment of $1,335,442, according to lottery officials. He bought his ticket Nov. 8 at the Snack Shack Food Mart at 8671 Littleton Road in North Fort Myers.

Duma passed last Wednesday a bill on Gambling Business Facilities in Moscow, whereby the gambling halls should be located at least 100 meters from the educational institutions and no game machines could be installed in housing dwellings, state offices, hospitals, stores or supermarkets.

This move of the Moscow Duma signals redistribution of gambling business has started in Moscow with only the large players expected to survive.

Ask folks at the Iowa Lottery and they’ll insist: Those machines popping up all over the Iowa Quad-Cities are not slot machines. Sure, they look like slots: Video screens show spinning wheels of lucky 7s and bars. Buttons allow multiple bets up to $1.35 on each spin. The beeps and blips sound just like a casino.

But they’re not slots, said Mary Neubauer, the lottery’s vice president of external relations. It is Touchplay, just “another lottery instant game,” she said...

A financial report presented to the Maine Gambling Control Board this week said the first 11 days of business at Hollywood Slots generated more than $12.5 million in spending at the facility’s 475 slot machines.

"I’m moderately surprised that they were as high as they are. But after walking through the casino one time and seeing the enthusiasm, I guess I understand," said George McHale, chairman of the gambling control board, as figures were released Tuesday.

Mainers approved a referendum two years ago to allow up to 1,500 slot machines at commercial harness-racing tracks in Bangor and Scarborough...

Representatives of South Africa's rapidly growing casino sector have signed the country's first-ever national gambling industry code of conduct, making it one of the first globally to do so outside the US.

South Africa's listed gaming groups include Sun International, Gold Reef Casino Resorts, and Peermont Global, amongst others...