Problem Gambling

Ex-San Diego mayor who gambled away $1 billion remorseful

2013-02-14 20:13:08

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Ex-mayor's lawyer ties her gambling addiction to brain tumor

2013-02-15 07:43:33

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Legalize online gambling

2006-06-09 00:00:00

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is due to vote soon on proposals to ban online gambling, and the deck seems stacked in favor of sound bites over sound policy. Federal law already outlaws businesses from using phone lines to place or receive bets across state...

Keno Should Come With More Help For Gambling Addiction

2013-06-04 16:17:00

Connecticut can't stop its addiction to gambling. The legislature is adding keno to a mix that includes lotteries, scratch games and off-track betting, not to mention the many offerings of mega-casinos Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun. Though this page...

Push To Get Budget Done

2013-06-03 02:21:29

— As the weather gets warmer at this time of year, state legislators start acting like college students. Having known since before Christmas that their legislative session would end at midnight on Wednesday, the legislators procrastinated and...

Maryland gambling exclusion expanded to lottery tickets

2013-05-21 15:23:15

Maryland has become the third state to offer a voluntary system to restrict the ability to play the lottery, officials announced Tuesday. The program is an expansion of the casino exclusion program launched in 2011, several months after Maryland's...

Five questions with ... Chad Barnhill

2013-05-10 15:05:00

Moving to Maryland has been a learning experience for Chad Barnhill, general manager of the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that will fill the sweeping vacant lot currently greeting drivers coming into the city on Russell Street. At home within the walls...

It’s Official: Gambling is an Addiction

2013-04-25 04:22:05

Quinn leery of gambling expansion loopholes

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Renewed gambling expansion push picks up steam

2013-05-01 13:44:00

SPRINGFIELD --- A renewed push to greatly expand gambling in Illinois surfaced today, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel threw his weight behind a plan the state Senate quickly approved. Like two previous bills that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed, the latest...

Seniors say they suffer after Florida closes Internet cafes

2013-04-21 14:39:00

Amanda Geter sits on her red sofa, fumbling through her purse. She thumbs through a fistful of credit cards until she locates what had proved so elusive. Phone cards from Magic 777 e-caf� in DeBary and Big Apple Sweepstakes in Orange City. Plastic...

Already king of slots, Maryland Live looks to take share of table game market

2013-04-11 15:57:00

Cards started turning and dice began rolling early Thursday morning at Maryland Live, already the largest slots casino in the Mid-Atlantic. Opened just 10 months ago, the casino next to an Anne Arundel County outlet mall rakes in more money from slot...

Alliance for Responsible Gambling (MARG) including Renata Henry, right, Deputy Secretary for Behavioral Health and Disabilities for the DHMH, during a press conference at Maryland Lottery headquarter. Martino and Henry are pictured answering questions from news media during press conference.

2011-05-05 00:00:00