Pennsylvania News - Page 94

News Brief: Pennsylvania’s Gaming Control Board adopted a strict policy yesterday that includes prohibitions against political activity, accepting gifts from the gambling industry, or owning an interest in any casino-related firm doing business in Pennsylvania.

News Brief: The Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce listened to Mohegan Sun at the Pocono Downs CEO’s overview of plans for the first local slot industry, which is expected to create about 1,000 jobs.

News Brief: The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians announced today that construction of the new casino project is under way.

News Brief: The land development plan for the proposed Mount Airy Lodge resort and casino comes before the Paradise Township Planning Commission today.

An impressive roster of diversity experts at the March 6-7 Pennsylvania Gaming Congress will help firms to capitalize on the emerging Pennsylvania gaming industry.

Buzztime Network cable iTV game service is now available to Blue Ridge Communications, Inc.'s digital cable subscribers in western Pennsylvania.

News Brief: What once was a pricey outdoors store, with stuffed caribou and bears adorning its faux mountain walls, will be transformed into a casino if and when Nemacolin Woodlands Resort & Spa is awarded a Pennsylvania slot machine license.

News Brief: Penguins president Ken Sawyer said the franchise was unconcerned that an illegal sports bookmaking operation implicating former Penguins winger Rick Tocchet would adversely affect the organization's plans for a new arena primarily financed by Isle of Capri Casinos.

News Brief: Convicted video poker operator John ‘Duffy’ Conley is up to his old tricks again, according to federal prosecutors.

News Brief: Groups are criticizing the the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s plan for a series of public hearings when details of the Pittsburgh proposals are still be shrouded in secrecy.

News Brief: Trump casinos has made an offer to the Philadelphia School District to buy a school that sits on land where it proposes to build a slots parlor in Nicetown.

News Brief: From contractors to caterers, 157 people from minority- and women-owned businesses have lined up for today's workshop on the types of services and supplies the Las Vegas Sands Corp. will need if gambling comes to south Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

News Brief: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board refused to consider three applications for a casino licenses, reducing the number of applicants to 22 for the remaining 14 casino licenses available.

News Brief: Duquesne University would like nothing more than to see a new arena built for the Penguins, but not if it means putting a slot machine casino at its doorstep.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Jefferies & Company, Inc. will be Platinum Sponsors of the 2nd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress, which takes place March 6-7.

News Brief: Pennsylvania gambling regulators have unanimously rejected the application to open a $150 million slots parlor in downtown Lancaster.

The competition for the lone casino license in Pittsburgh is loaded with Las Vegas implications.

The idea of putting 61,000 new slot machines in Pennsylvania casinos and racetracks by the end of the decade makes gaming equipment manufacturers light up like a progressive slot machine hitting a multilevel jackpot.

News Brief: Mario Lemieux says his decision to retire will have no impact on the Penguins' bid to win the state license for the Pittsburgh slot machine casino.

News Brief: The company that built its fortune on riverboat gambling is sailing into new waters.