Massachusetts News - Page 36

News Brief: The Revere City Council plans to schedule a public hearing next year on a proposal allowing casinos to be built on two local racetrack sites.

News Brief: Mashpee, Massachusetts, selectmen have notified federal officials that new rules proposed for establishing casinos on tribal lands do not provide adequate protections for the interests of local communities.

News Brief: A reputed underboss of the New England Mafia pleaded not guilty Monday to gambling and extortion charges.

News Brief: The gambling industry is preparing for another all-out rush on Beacon Hill, with Gov.-elect Deval Patrick leaving the door open to the possibility of legalizing casinos and slot machines in Massachusetts.

While Internet gambling aficionados are certainly aware of the new law, Casino City reporter Aaron Todd ventured to Boston's Quincy Market to find out how much the average American knows.

A second Superseding Indictment was unsealed today charging thirteen people with racketeering and related offenses.

The New England Technology Foundation’s 13th annual charity fundraising event will include casino games and a poker tournament.

News Brief: Venture capitalist Christopher F. Gabrieli said yesterday he favors legalizing casino gambling in the state, as a way of generating revenues to help cities and towns avoid property tax increases.

ews Brief: Massachusetts’ License Commission Chairman Thomas N. Wilson said yesterday as a result of a recent City Hall meeting with State Police he anticipates license commissioners will no longer issue permits for video poker slot machines.

News Brief: Chicopee bans gambling devices after police raid yields 38 machines and $10,0000.

News Brief: Lawmakers will tackle the complicated issue of Internet gambling during a two-hour hearing June 2 during a meeting of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States in Boston.

ews Brief: A top official with the Massachusetts Lottery Commission has indefinitely suspended lottery licenses for four area establishments where video slot machines were seized last week by state police investigating possible illegal gambling.

News Brief: City Councilor George Rotondo wants to put out the welcome mat in Revere for a Cape Cod Indian tribe that soon may be looking for a place to build a casino.

News Brief: Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick said he needs more information about possible gambling proposals from the Wampanoags, a 1,468-member Cape Cod tribe

News Brief: House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi stacked the deck against slot machines by inserting three loyalists onto a key committee the day before it cast a crucial vote in the dow

News Brief: If Massachusetts legislators legalize slot machines, experts say, it's not a question of whether an Indian tribe will seek to open a casino. It's a matter of when.

So is the popularity of online gambling creating hordes of addicts too broke to cover their bets? No, one Harvard University researcher says.

News Brief: Some of the world’s top gambling magnates have long dreamed of building giant casinos in Massachusetts and cracking one of the most potentially lucrative markets.

News Brief: The Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe of Martha's Vineyard will assert a right to build a resort casino under Indian gaming law if Massachusetts legalizes slot machines at the s

News Brief: In the spring, the Massachusetts Legislature will consider legalizing slot machines at Raynham Park and the state's other three racetracks in an effort to save the them.