Indiana News - Page 35

News Brief: A former security officer for the Hoosier Lottery is accused of conspiring with two other men to rig a $1 million scratch-off game.

John G. Brokopp: It’s a high-energy alternative to traditional table gaming.

News Brief: Ground has been broken on a new ship that will substantially increase the size of Blue Chip Casino, one of five riverboats along Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline.

News Brief: Gambling action at Southeast Indiana's riverboat casinos continued to grow in the third quarter.

News Brief: Indiana's racetracks would trade three unused off-track betting permits for 5,000 video gambling machines under a proposal approved by a legislative panel.

News Brief: Indiana's 10 casinos owe the state about $130 million in back taxes plus penalties and interest, an Indiana Department of Revenue audit shows.

News Brief: The long-awaited town hall meeting to debate and discuss the proposed casino in Lynwood will be held Oct. 28.

Hoosier Park at Anderson has announced a purse increase of $1,000 per race for its Thoroughbred racing program.

News Brief: Courts are finding that casinos have no duty to protect compulsive gamblers from themselves, even if players are on a blacklist.

News Brief: Indiana's riverboat casinos must pay an estimated $200 million in back taxes under a ruling that the state Supreme Court let stand.

News Brief: The Ho-Chunk Nation's interest in building a casino in south suburban Lynwood, which it announced earlier this year, has sparked a debate that has raged with barely a reprieve.

News Brief: Two years of dockside gambling in Indiana have meant a cash windfall for the state's beleaguered budget and for local governments.

News Brief: Executives from the Trump Casino company will appear before the Indiana Gaming Commission today to discuss the company's financial problems.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and Caesars Entertainment, Inc. have signed a definitive agreement to sell four casinos to an affiliate of Colony Capital, LLC.

ews Brief: An Indiana gaming official says it's too soon to discuss replacing financially troubled Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts Inc. as the company that will build a casino in French Lick.

Hoosier Park at Anderson has announced a purse increase of $1,000 per race for its Thoroughbred racing program.

News Brief: As hospitality workers at three additional casino boats voted in favor of a strike option Wednesday, they had the comfort of knowing the powerful Steelworkers union would stand by them.

News Brief: Blue Chip Casino workers have authorized union leaders to call a strike if contract negotiations fail.

News Brief: With only four August weekends instead of last year's five, betters at Southeast Indiana's riverboat casinos wagered 5 percent fewer dollars last month compared to August 2003.

News Brief: Earlier this month the Indiana Horse Racing Commission requested proposed race dates from Hoosier Park and Indiana Downs.