There is a project that will enter the General Assembly next week in Rhode Island. The project pretends to change the minimum gambling age, from 18 to 21 years old.
The mentioned bill has been introduced by Deborah Fellela, a Democrat that was elected in her first term.
She claims that, with this law, what they want is to protect teenagers from the possibility of developing gambling addiction and, therefore, prevent them from wasting their money.
Bellevue police officers are looking for three unknown men who robbed Bellevue Keno at 39th and Harrison streets on Tuesday night.
A police spokesperson said at about 10 p.m. Tuesday, three masked men with handguns entered the parlor and ordered everyone to the ground. They cleaned out several registers and took cell phones and wallets from attending patrons.
Helene Rost, of Amherstburg, is the lucky winner of a $3.2 million lotto jackpot. She purchased the ticket at Lynn’s Varitey, a local store located at 203 Richmond Street. On Monday, Helene went to Toronto to claim her prize.
“I found out Thursday morning when I was reading the newspaper,” Ms. Rost said. “I was overwhelmed, I guess. A big surprise.” She explained that she has been playing the lottery for about 25 years but the biggest prize she had won was $10.
Michael Carroll, who won about £10 million on the National Lottery in 2002, had to appear in court again only six months after being released from jail. He had to face Cambridge Magistrate’s Court for threatening a train commuter in a quarrel over noise.
The court adjourned until next week because Mr. Carroll failed to keep a date with the probation service. That was his last opportunity to comply with a condition established by the court. However, Magistrates have agreed to give him one last chance.
Since nobody won the top prizes in Washington’s Lotto or Quinto games, the jackpots will rise from $2.2 million to $2.4 million for the Lotto draw and from $2.75 million to $2.81 million in Quinto.
In Lotto, nine tickets matched five of the six winning numbers to win $1,000 each. Another 468 tickets matched four numbers for $30 each. In Quinto, eleven tickets matched four winning numbers to win $1,000 apiece and 656 had three winning numbers out of five for $20 each.
The Greek company Intracom said that its subsidiary Intralot announced that it was committed to present an offer during the process of privatizing of the National Lottery of Turkey.
Socrates Kokkalis, titular of the executive board and CEO of Intracom, said that it would create a consortium with four companies, one of which would be Turkish, in order to apply for the process.
A group of Louisville bingo halls have filed a complaint claiming that Louisville's new smoking ban violates the state and federal constitutions.
The suit is comparable to another lawsuit filed by Louisville bars on Nov. 14 that argues an exemption allowing smoking at Churchill Downs violates the state constitution.
The bingo halls' suit claims that the exclusion violates equal protection and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution, and that the ban deprives owners of their property without compensation.
Class III gaming on the Flathead Indian Reservation became a federal offense as of this week. All the gaming venues of the Reservation were ordered to turn off and internally disable keno and poker machines because the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and the state of Montana have not signed a gaming compact.
On November 20th, Governor Brian Schweitzer had a meeting with CSKT Chairman James H. Steele Jr., after eight months of postponing it. During the meeting, the state offered to allow the tribes to share in the revenue from state-regulated gambling but without giving the tribe jurisdiction over all gambling.
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes rejected a gambling agreement that had been proposed by the state authorities. According to the compact, the tribe would share in the revenue produced by non-tribal gambling on the reservation but they would not have jurisdiction over all gaming.
“We cannot consider the governor's offer, primarily because it does not address our key issues of jurisdiction and self-governance of the gaming on our reservation,” the tribes answered in a statement. They also invited the governor to reconsider their proposal.
The proximity of Christmas motivated the slogan of the extraordinary Draw of the National Lottery: “Christmas is close and the best products disappear quickly from the shelves and the shop windows. Think about it… Today you can pick your favorite number, find it and wait calmly for luck to knock at your door. But tomorrow… Tomorrow you will have to settle with what’s left at the bargains table. So, if you have a hunch or an intuition look for your ticket now at the official agencies of the National Lottery”.
The traditional draw will be next Thursday, December 21st, and it will have $4.000.000 in prizes: a first prize of $2.000.000 and then 10 0km-cars and five electric appliances.
