Louisiana News - Page 22

News Brief: After years of St. Mary Parish working to procure Louisiana’s 15th and last waterway gambling license, Amelia will soon be home of a riverboat casino.

Two of the three casino-related issues on ballots Tuesday were rejected by voters.

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. reports that voters in Lake Charles, Louisiana have approved a local-option referendum that would permit construction of a new $350 million casino hotel, Sugarcane Bay, adjacent to their L'Auberge du Lac facility.

News Brief: Louisiana's casinos took in a combined $58.4 million in September, down from $59.3 million in August.

Pinnacle Entertainment has submitted an application to state gaming regulators to move a shuttered Lake Charles riverboat casino to a new location in Baton Rouge.

News Brief: A 24-year-old LaPlace woman wanted by the St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office for allegedly stealing more than $50,000 from a Reserve casino where she was employed was arrested in an apartment in Virginia.

News Brief: Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. has formally petitioned the Louisiana Gaming Control Board for permission to place a riverboat casino in Baton Rouge.

News Brief: Gamblers lost $145.9 million to Louisiana’s riverboat casinos in September, up more than 50 percent from a year ago.

News Brief: Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco has voiced support for the state's crackdown on online gambling and renewed an extradition request for Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet.

International News Brief: Online gaming outfit Sportingbet has gone on the offensive against the American authorities ahead of a crucial hearing for Peter Dicks, its former chairman.

News Brief: Louisiana is determined to stop Internet gambling companies from taking bets in the southern U.S. state and has issued four arrest warrants for staff at Sportingbet Plc, a police officer told the Financial Times.

Harrah's New Orleans Hotel made its official debut Thursday, September 21, hosting a New Orleans-style party that attracted more than 2,500 guests who gathered to celebrate the first completely new hotel to open in the city since Hurricane Katrina.

Mississippi's Gulf Coast casino industry saw its reported gaming revenues for August decline for the 12th straight month as the area recovers from the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Kennedy Funding has provided a $1.92 million loan to Akaal Lodging for the purchase of the former Isle of Capri Inn in Louisiana.

News Brief: The Louisiana attorney general's office is developing a program to target underage gamblers.

International News Brief: Louisiana authorities may have instigated the arrest of Peter Dicks, the chairman of online gambling firm Sportingbet, under pressure from gambling firms in the Deep South.

News Brief: Louisiana riverboat casino officials told regulators at a closed-door meeting that the state should consider cutting gambling taxes and perhaps moving floating casinos off the water to allow the industry to compete in the future.

Pinnacle Entertainment announced that L'Auberge du Lac Hotel & Casino, a $370 million Texas Hill Country-themed resort in Lake Charles, La., broke ground yesterday on a $45 million hotel tower expansion.

At Johnny White's Sports Bar bartender Peter Gregory is convinced that casinos, especially Harrah's New Orleans, are helping the city recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A major multi-media campaign is underway as Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino gets the word out that it wants customers to win a truck every day in the month of September, starting tonight.