Pennsylvania News - Page 106

News Brief: Ted Arneault, CEO of MTR Gaming Group wants to build a new racetrack and casino in Summit Township, Pennsylvania.

Senator Tommy Tomlinson has defended the Governor's selection of Frank Friel to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board against attacks on his character by gambling opponents.

The Commonwealth's Executive Board has established annual salaries for members of the newly created Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, which will regulate gaming in the Commonwealth.

News Brief: The same four digits have hit in the daytime Pennsylvania Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.

News Brief: A Pennsylvania Crime Commission report issued 30 years ago could cause a political problem for Gov. Rendell and his newly appointed gambling board chairman, a former Philadelphia police officer and celebrated mob-buster Francis P. Friel.

News Brief: Developer C.J. Betters has filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Ed Rendell and the Pennsylvania Legislature leaders charging that the state's new gambling law were written specifically to block his efforts to build a thoroughbred racetrack with a slot machine casino in Hays.

News Brief: The field of groups vying to win Pennsylvania’s last thoroughbred racing license has thinned considerably after the state's new gambling law did not guarantee a gambling license to the operator of each of Pennsylvania's thoroughbred tracks.

News Brief: State Treasurer Barbara Hafer and a retiring state legislator are among the candidates under consideration for appointments to Pennsylvania's new gambling control board.

News Brief: A year ago, there were nine groups seeking the sixth and final license for a thoroughbred racing track in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: The NHL has begun its own investigation into Flyers center Jeremy Roenick's admission that he paid for gambling tips and bet on football.

News Brief: Governor Ed Rendell has named an assistance vice president at Carnegie Mellon University to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

News Brief: In the aftermath of federal law-enforcement assertions that he spent more than $100,000 on gambling tips and admittedly bet on football and college basketball, Philadelphia Flyers center Jeremy Roenick said he was ‘only human.’

ews Brief: Pirates owner Kevin McClatchy said yesterday an offer to build a 1,240-space parking garage and fund community assets with gambling revenues won't change his opposition to a proposed North Shore slots casino near PNC Park.

News Brief: Pittsburgh parking magnate Merrill Stabile is upping the ante in his bid to secure a Pennsylvania gambling license to build a $200 million slots casino and entertainment complex on the North Shore.

News Brief: A former Philadelphia police officer is to be appointed to the state's new gambling commission.

News Brief: The new law authorizing 14 slot-machine casinos across Pennsylvania is only a month old, but some General Assembly Republicans already claim the measure is badly flawed.

News Brief: A former casino host and a Philadelphia brothel operator pleaded guilty Thursday to roles in a prostitution ring that delivered young Asian women to customers at casinos and the brothel.

The state awarded a contract to a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm to help develop a way to monitor money pouring in at slot machine parlors across the state and do background checks of applicants seeking lucrative gambling licenses.

Pennsylvania Senator Robert M. Tomlinson supports the new gaming act which he has was a lead sponsor for.

News Brief: Pennsylvania may speed up $1 billion in property tax cuts by becoming the second state to sell bonds backed by slot-machine revenue, Treasurer Barbara Hafer said.