In 2007 Democrat Steve Beshear was elected governor of Kentucky after pledging to expand state-run gambling. Once in office, Beshear found that competition from online gambling was a huge obstacle. So in September 2008, his state filed a civil suit ...

Wall Street's successful lobbying of Congress led to the current financial debacle. But the bankers have no need to worry. The government have come to their rescue with taxpayers' money, raising serious questions about whose interests the politicians ...

OTTUMWA (AP) — The Ottumwa City Council has tabled a decision to hire a lobbyist to help the city get a casino license from the state. The council is debating whether to hire lobbyist Bill Wimmer. Webster, Tama, Lyons and Franklin counties have ...

A Kentucky Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling shortly on whether the commonwealth can seize 141 online gambling domain names. Jennifer Brislin, a spokeswoman for the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, told PC World that the ...

Someone started off 2009 with a lucky streak, but so far that person hasn't stepped forward. The One Stop Grocery at 510 E. Franklin Blvd., Gastonia, sold a winning Powerball lottery ticket for the Dec. 31 drawing worth $1 million. No one claimed the ...

No one claimed the $1 million lottery prize won Dec. 31, but a Mount Holly man claimed a $10,000 prize, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery. Steven Wallace won the money playing the scratch-off lottery game "Winning Fever." Wallace ...

Mayor Tim Baldermann is offering one free ticket to the Barack Obama inauguration to the winner of a lottery drawing with a few stipulations. One is they have to be real New Lenox citizens and the other is they have to had voted in the last election ...

Running the town with less money will be the predominant challenge for 2009, town leaders say. "The numbers are premature, but there are clearly indications from the state that local aid will be reduced, and that will put pressure (on town services ...

The Ottumwa City Council has tabled a decision to hire a lobbyist to help the city get a casino license from the state. The council is debating whether to hire lobbyist Bill Wimmer. Webster, Tama, Lyons and Franklin counties have already hired Wimmer ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY — The Franklin County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a zoning change on Monday that will allow the creation of a flea market on a 5-acre parcel in Lavonia. The parcel is located on 35 Twin Creek Road and it had been ...