Louisiana Casino News & Louisiana Gambling News

Isle of Capri Casino - Lake Charles is located in Westlake, Louisiana

Tai Shen Kuo, a naturalized US citizen with prominent family connections in Taiwan, provided gambling money and promises of a job to a Defense Department ...

Using a fake ID to try and get into a casino, well, Perrilloux was not he first LSU student to try that. Tigers students have been doing that to get into ...

Heat fans shouldn't fret too much if Miami is unlucky in the draft lottery May 20. Even if the Heat doesn't win one of the top two selections - which almost certainly will be used to draft Kansas State forward

INDIANAPOLIS - None of the tickets sold for Saturday's Hoosier Lotto game matched all six numbers drawn, so the jackpot grows to an estimated $3 million for Wednesday's drawing.

Louisiana Lottery players had a lucky weekend.

COVINGTON, La. -- A $200,000 Powerball ticket was sold in Covington for Saturday night's game, state lottery officials said. No one hit the Powerball, Louisiana Lotto or Easy 5...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Kentucky Derby's winning jockey - Louisiana-born Kent Desormeaux - was aboard Casino Drive when that colt romped to a 5 3/4-length victory Saturday in the Saturday in the $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park.

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk.

Carl Hunter lost two homes during Hurricane Katrina. Those were bad times. Then Hunter won $97 million in the Louisiana lottery. These are good times. "I'm retiring, you know, naturally," Hunter, a 73-year-old construction company owner, tells the Associated Press....

The Associated Press - May 9, 2008"I had some change, and one dollar was used to buy this ticket," Hunter said Thursday at the Louisiana Lottery Corp. headquarters in Baton Rouge, ...