Pennsylvania News - Page 79

News Brief: Compulsive and pathological gamblers have been slow to sign up for a new state program that aims to keep them out of Pennsylvania's new casinos.

News Brief: The Meadows in Washington County, Pennsylvania, plans to have a $52 million temporary casino open in early June.

Top management from Pennsylvania horse race tracks told the Gaming Control Board today that the success of legalized slots machine gaming is already paying tremendous dividends toward reinvigorating the Commonwealth's horse racing industry.

With the historic Bethlehem Steel plant as a backdrop, local elected officials and Las Vegas Sands Corp. executives celebrated the beginning of construction at Sands Bethworks.

News Brief: Visitors to Pennsylvania's first casino have dropped more than twice as much money into slot machines at the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs casino than originally estimated, according to a spokesman for the state's Gaming Control Board.

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs held a ground breaking ceremony today for its new $180 million casino and entertainment complex.

The Meadows Racetrack and Casino has selected secure transaction technology from Shift4 Corporation as it develops the first fully-integrated racing and gaming complex in Western Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association have filed its official opposition to the proposal by owner of Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack, to have the temporary facility deemed permanent.

An attempt by Greenwood Gaming, the owner of Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack, to make the temporary casino its permanent gaming facility was heavily criticized today by the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.

News Brief: Delaware’s racino customers are showing their discontent by going over the border to Pennsylvania’s new Harrah’s Chester casino.

News Brief: Gamblers have risked well over $500 million in the slot machines at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs so far this year. Some of that money appears to be coming at the expense of local bingo parlors.

News Brief: The second phase of development at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs will add 300,000 square feet and about 2,000 slot machines to the casino adjoining a horse track just outside of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, according to casino president Robert Soper.

News Brief: Off to a strong start in its interim casino, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is poised to break ground on a second phase of construction that will quadruple the facility in size and add several amenities beyond additional slot machines.

Philadelphia Park Casino, the first casino to open in the Philadelphia area, chalks up another first with the introduction of the state’s first electronic table games.

ews Brief: Philadelphia City Council passed another bill yesterday aimed at derailing or at least delaying construction of Foxwoods Casino Philadelphia along the Delaware River.

News Brief: On April 26, demolition will begin on 10 Steel buildings to clear the way for 5,000 slot machines and a 10-story hotel and conference center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Two competitors took their four-year battle for the state's fourth and final harness racing license and the slots casino that will come with it to the state Supreme Court chambers here yesterday.

News Brief: The Carnegie Science Center may seek to delay an expected May 1 vote by the city planning commission on a master plan for the proposed Pittsburgh casino.

ews Brief: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, property owners would hit the jackpot under a proposal from the head of city council to cut taxes with casino revenue.

ews Brief: Casino opponents, stung by the state Supreme Court's decision Friday to issue a preliminary injunction knocking a referendum on the issue off the May 15 ballot, vowed yesterday to find another way to cast their ballots on the issue.