Ohio News - Page 19

News Brief: Any misgivings Mayor Donald Plusquellic may have had about a state issue to allow gambling were overcome by the need to support economic development in Cleveland and college education.

News Brief: Depending on whom you talk to, slot machines will yield either great benefits or grief for Ohio.

News Brief: The months-long, often volatile casino proposal for Northwest Stark County took a fatal blow from Canal Fulton City Council on Tuesday night.

News Brief: Cincinnati and Columbus are on opposite sides when it comes to a ballot initiative that would permit gambling in Ohio.

News Brief: A critic of an Indian tribe's effort to open a casino near the Canal Fulton, Ohio, is being pushed to resign from a volunteer board that oversees the historical district.

News Brief: The Ohio State University Board of Trustees yesterday came out strongly against the Learn and Earn ballot measure that would allow slotmachine gambling in Ohio.

News Brief: A federal judge yesterday allowed the state to re-enter a land-claim case seen as the first step in the Eastern Shawnee tribe's long-term plan to establish Indian gambling in Ohio.

The Ohio Secretary of State has confirmed that a referendum question on slot machines will be submitted to voters at the November 2006 general election.

News Brief: Cincinnati City Councilwoman Leslie Ghiz said Monday that she has dismissed her lawsuit against an organization that wants to bring slot machine gambling to Ohio.

News Brief: Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma surveyed 250 registered Canal Fulton voters and released highlights of that survey at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

News Brief: A petition drive to let Ohioans vote on allowing slot-machine gambling at horse-racing tracks and in Cleveland has fallen short of the required number of signatures.

News Brief: Canal Fulton City Council members were both bewildered and dismayed about a telephone survey being conducted by Discovery Research Group about casinos.

ews Brief: Two religious groups has asked for a state criminal investigation of a committee trying to bring slot machines to Ohio, saying its campaign workers are misrepresenting the gambling proposal.

News Brief: U.S. Sen. George Voinovich says he"s ready to battle again with gambling proponents who want to expand legalized gambling in the state but warned that this time the foe is much stronger.

ews Brief: An Oklahoma tribe seeking a casino in Ohio has dropped the state as a defendant in a land-claim lawsuit.

News Brief: Cincinnati City Council member Leslie Ghiz today filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Earn and Learn Committee, the committee established for the statewide casino referendum that excludes Cincinnati, and against FieldWorks Inc.

One ticket in the Tuesday, June 27, 2006 drawing matched all six numbers to win the estimated $23 million jackpot. The winning ticket was purchased in Genoa, Ohio.

News Brief: Opponents of a Lima,, Ohio casino made their voices heard loud and clear, but Lima City Council opted to move forward with an agreement anyway.

News Brief: Preliminary poll results show strong and diverse support across Allen County for an Eastern Shawnee Tribe casino and resort development.

News Brief: An Ohio group has cancelled their planned press conference, acknowledging that the proposed slots parlor is all but dead for this year.