John A. Mesner, a resident of Clovis, New Mexico, recently had all his privately held slot machines confiscated by state police. Mesner, 60, was charged by the local authorities with six felonies connected to the possession of several slots and an illegal attempt to sell one slot machine.
Florida House Speaker Allan Bense was recently quoted as saying that a special session on state slots regulations could be held by the House in October. However, Bense also said that a November session is an option too.
A prominent slot machine manufacturer and distributor, International Game Technology (IGT), recently purchased WagerWorks, a leading privately-held provider of online gaming platforms. The acquisition cost IGT $90 million, in cash.
Philadelphia businessman and entrepreneur Pat Croce is reportedly trying to put together a group of investors, consisting of major gaming corporations, politicians and personal friends, in order to pursue a slots facility operation license.
Playing host to the Mohawk slots casino, the town of Milton, Ontario, recently received its quarterly payment, which this quarter totaled over $1 million from the slot machines venue. According to an agreement between the Indian slots casino and Milton, the city is entitled to a certain percentage of the casino’s revenues.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board is about to hold two Diversity Forums, aiming to develop business relations between small or women/minority-owned in-state companies and local slots casinos, planned to be constructed in the near future.
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds recently rejected a proposal by the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe to install an additional 500 slot machines at their gaming facility in South Dakota. However, the Governor was also reported as saying that he is willing to continue discussions on the matter.
It was recently reported that Nooksack River Casino in Bellingham, Washington, purchased 68 additional video slot machines. The slots were manufactured by IGT, a globally famous slot machines maker.
Washoe County District Court judge Janet Berry recently backed Reno City Council’s refusal to allow approximately 130 additional slot machines in the Starlite Lanes bowling alley.
Louisiana State Police recently arrested two men suspected of stealing from slot machines at the Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino in Saint Landry Parish, LA. John Tramwell Compton, 28, the facility's slot machine technician and Kenneth A. Doucet, 37, a casino patron, were accused of stealing slots earnings.
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank recently announced that starting August 8, it will install 137 slot machine-style ATMs in 135 of its branches in four Japanese prefectures- Gifu, Aichi, Mie and Shiga.
Rhode Island legislative authorities recently legalized the installation and operation of approximately 2,550 new slot machines in two local gaming venues, the Lincoln Park dog track and a Newport gaming facility.
In cooperation with motion design and production studio Lightborne, The Warren Brothers, a country music act, recently released a new slot machine-themed music video. The video was co-directed by Lightborne and Shaun Silva of Tacklebox Films.
As a part of their effort to solve the state budget deficit issues, some Kansas legislators are looking to authorize the expansion of slots operations in different gambling facilities across the state. The authorization of more slots means more tax money poured into the state budget.
Greg Matzel, the president of Matzel Development, said that a contract for building a $1.5 billion complex of casino and slots was signed with the Pocono Manor resort.
A part of the planned casino-slots parlor will involve getting a license for 5K slot machines.
Mark Cowsert, a gambler who filed a lawsuit against the Greektown Casino in Detroit, Michigan, recently lost the case he filed with the state Court of Appeals. Cowsert argued that the casino refused to pay him his allegedly rightful slots winnings.
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco recently passed a bill into law, allowing New Orleans NFL team the Saints to enjoy tax money generated by the future slot machines at the New Orleans Fair Grounds. The slots bill is part of the state’s effort to comply with its 10-year, $186 million contract with the team.
It was recently reported that as a part of its lawsuit settlement with the state of New Mexico, Pojoaque Pueblo tribe, which operates the Cities of Gold Casino, finally agreed to pay the state $24 million in back payments for taxes on slots revenues.
Although opened merely a few months ago, the Teller House Casino, located in Central City, Colorado, recently pulled the plug on its 200 slot machines. According to a spokesperson for the state gaming division, the slots casino, operated by 3C Gaming Inc., is bankrupt.
In efforts to boost to revenues, the Hoosier Lottery, operated in Indianapolis, Indiana, is reportedly examining possibility to run legalized video slots. In order to run video slots, prior authorization is required by the state attorney general.
The police department in Barberton, Ohio, recently confiscated 63 slot machines from two illegally operating local gaming venues, Magic Money Skill Touch Arcade and Mardi Gras Skilled Games.
As Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gets ready for its upcoming slots casino, the city is grappling with the prospect of fitting such a huge complex in its downtown area. The future slots venue is expected to host 3,000 slot machines, and will have the potential to house another 2,000 machines.
"I was already thinking when my $20 was gone, I was moving to a nickel machine!" said Brenda Preston, who recently won the progressive slots jackpot of $2.1 million in Terrible's Mark Twain Casino in La Grange, Missouri, playing just $20 on the machine.
New casinos in Lima, Peru, have ordered $80K worth of IG slot machines from Interactive Games Inc., a developer and licensor in the field of interactive casino gaming applications.
As a part of its struggle against the thousands of illegal slot machines presently operated by the black market across Israel, the National Lottery Corporation has requested a permit to expand the amount of slots it is authorized to run.
It was recently reported that three security guards of the Ambassador II, a cruise ship owned by Sterling Casino Lines, stole more than $100,000 from slot machines over a period of approximately five weeks. The security guards were to keep watch on the ship, docked in Port Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida, after the second of the boat's two daily cruises docked.
Electronic Game Card Inc., a listed United States Corporation, recently launched its newly developed pocket sized multi-play digital game platform. Although the technology can be applied for many different games, such as the lottery, it has been predicted that its most immediate success would be for slots.
Nevada Governor, Kenny G. Guinn, recently authorized a law, allowing slots gambling fans to play slot machines on hand-held wireless devices. The permit is valid only in public places and only on the premises of the various casino venues.
Although it was only a week ago that a ruling by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court restored zoning control over slot machines to local officials, two Bethlehem Councilmen, Gordon Mowrer and Joseph Leeson Jr., are about to present an amendment that might stop the construction of a multi million slots casino near Bethlehem.
At a hearing recently held by the Northampton County Council in Foy Hall of Pennsylvania's Moravian College, residents of Bethlehem reportedly expressed their opposition to a proposal seeking construction of a new slot machine casino in the city's South Side.
Although New York State Senator Nicholas Spano’s bill, which proposed allocating funds from future video slots at the Yonkers Raceway to city educational establishments, was recently passed in the Senate, it failed to obtain the approval of the committee in the Assembly.
