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Two winners of the ``Fantasy 5'' game will collect $121,699.80 each, the Florida Lottery said Thursday. The winning tickets were bought in Youngstown and Hialeah, lottery officials reported. The 345 tickets matching four numbers won $113.50 each ...

When charities went up against casino-owning Indian tribes in Sacramento recently, they got schooled in who wields the real political power. The outcome raises serious questions about whether Californians meant to forever guarantee tribes that there ...

Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his ...

California Gambling Control Commission staff and federal regulators say such machines cross a line separating bingo from Nevada-style games, which are regulated differently. Sycuan officials say the 217 or so extra machines in question are bingo, and ...

Deer population: Estimated at 425,000 to 450,000, down from 1.5 million to 2 million in early 1960s. Decline blamed on construction blocking migration routes and predation by mountain lions and coyotes. Hunter contribution: Deer hunters contribute ...

A tribal casino scheduled to open later this year in Northern California shouldn't have any problem filling its jobs. About 11,000 people applied for jobs at the Red Hawk Casino about 30 miles east of Sacramento. The casino, owned by the Shingle ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Both houses of California's legislature passed a budget bill Friday that was hammered out between top lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a day earlier, bringing a long-awaited spending plan for the state's fiscal year ...

Sacramento -- Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Stockton, today announced that she will vote for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal, making her the first lawmaker to make such a statement. The moderate Democrat says she decided to "break ...

SACRAMENTO -- Legislative leaders announced Sunday that they had reached a deal on a no-new-taxes state spending plan, bringing the longest budget impasse in modern California history nearly to an end. Their proposal would increase spending for ...

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Southern California have embarked on a project to harness the power of Shewanella oneidensis, a microorganism that essentially spits lightning. Rather than consume oxygen to turn food into energy ...