ANNAPOLIS — Opponents of slot machine gambling filed suit Aug. 28 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to prohibit state elections officials from certifying the proposed ballot language that the plaintiffs allege is misleading and biased.

The legal challenge intensifies the lengthy battle over expanded gambling in Maryland and opens a new front in the effort to defeat slots. Voters ...

State lottery should be more focused at providing new money for education

It was one of the arguments opponents of a state lottery used most often. Lottery proceeds, they said, may come with the best of intentions aimed at adding to money already spent on education — but in other states, the money has often been used to replace money that had been allocated to education from genera...

A computer chip that is inserted into the body that keeps people from gambling, that is what has been invented by a Quebec businessman. Early returns are that the device actually works.

Chantal Audet is a businessman from Quebec who feels he has invented the answer for people who want to curb their gambling habit. One computer chip is placed inside the body, and another is placed inside t...

Private Chadwick James Horn, of Calgary, was one of three who died in the insurgent...

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"Come and watch this, I'm watching genius at work.” And with those words from Neil Fairbrother, I was ushered on to the balcony to watch Graeme Hick in action. Genius means different things to different people, but to me it did not imply an ability to do something I could not, but an ability to do something that I could not conceive of doing.

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There appear to be a number of arguments both for and against the practice of averaging down one’s stock position. Briefly, to average down means to purchase a second (third, fourth, etc.) position at a lower cost than what the initial position was purchased for. In other words, as the stock price goes lower you continu...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The last time the Republicans gathered to nominate a president, Keith Davis -- Atlantic County Republican chairman -- was too busy with a personal party in Minnesota to convene with his party-mates in New York.

Though not yet county chairman in 2004, Davis was too busy with his wedding -- to a native of nearby Stillwater, Minn. -- to attend the New York convention....

GRANJENO, Texas - Fresh off his electoral victory in May, Mayor Vicente Garza Jr. has embarked on a quixotic project, betting against long odds that a casino could secure the future of this indebted town of 485 residents.

ERIC GAY/The Associated PressTiny Granjeno, in the news in 2007 because of the border fence, faces state legal hurdles to a casino proposal.

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The IRS has decided that every poker operator in the United States will have to report anyone who wins more than $5,000 in a poker tournament.

To get around the fact that Congress never authorized this, IRS is pretending to require that 25% or more of these winners' prizes have to be withheld by the poker operators and forwarded to the IRS.

Buried in the IRS's published statem...

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