Sports betting effort in California not over despite losses at ballot box
The result of Tuesday's election is not a doomsday scenario for sports betting in California.
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The result of Tuesday's election is not a doomsday scenario for sports betting in California.
No one won Wednesday night's top prize of $1.2 billion, so the jackpot for Saturday night's drawing will be very close to the $1.586 billion world record for lotteries.
Propositions 26 and 27 would expand sports betting in the Golden State but Prop 26 also allows dice and roulette games at tribal casinos. Joy Benedict reports. (10-23-22)
Lauren Toms reports on a new poll indicating Proposition 27 faces an uphill battle among California voters (9-15-2022)
Semiautomatic firearms, along with drugs and cash, were seized after police said they busted another illegal casino in East Oakland.
Lottery retailers in nearly every state are clustered in poor neighborhoods, driving a wealth transfer to multinational corporations.
California voters will weigh in on seven ballot measures this fall, the fewest to appear on a statewide general election ballot since 2014.
A couple found guilty of felony grand theft from a Livermore casino were sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to repay more than half a million dollars in restitution, state prosecutors said.
The NHL found no evidence that San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane bet on NHL games or tried to throw games after investigating allegations made by his estranged wife.
Some Las Vegas Strip casinos have been allowed to open at 100% capacity, officials said Tuesday, after showing Nevada state regulators that at least 80% of their employees have received at least one shot of coronavirus vaccine.
One of California's more profitable card rooms agreed Thursday to a record $5.3 million penalty for misleading gambling regulators and violating a federal law designed to deter money laundering, the state attorney general's office said.
Two new measures are heading for consideration by San Jose voters in November.
Hundreds of animals were seized from an illegal cockfighting ring in the East Bay. At least 600 birds were found at a rural property in Dublin. Investigators said this was a large scale operation.
The Graton Resort & Casino will close Tuesday until April 1 or until further notice, the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria's Chairman Greg Sarris said Monday.
Cache Creek Casino Resort will temporarily cease operations due to concern over the spread of coronavirus in California, Yocha Dehe Wintun tribal leadership announced Sunday.
A 22-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to eight years and eight months in state prison for fatally shooting another man outside an illegal gambling club in Oakland in 2018 in what his attorney believes was an act of self-defense.
A coalition of Native American tribes has proposed an initiative for the 2020 ballot that would legalize sports betting in California.
A 52-year-old man was shot and another man was pistol-whipped during a robbery at an illegal gambling parlor in Oakland's Eastlake district on Tuesday night, police said.
New Jersey gambling regulators have ordered a California man to hand over more than $90,000 from online accounts he had funded and gambled with from outside the state.
Two longtime nuns at St. James Catholic School allegedly embezzled as much as $500,000 in tuition, fees and donations, perhaps spending some of the money on trips and gambling at casinos.
With the jackpot rising to a record $1.6 billion for Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, lottery fever has swept the state and the nation.
State lawmakers and tribes who run California casinos say voters would have to change the state's Constitution before legal sports betting could come to the nation's most populous state.
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal law that bars gambling on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states, giving states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports.
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly installed and maintained video slot machines at smoke shops and convenience stores throughout Northern California.
More than 70 firefighters responded to a fire that broke out on the roof of the Bellagio Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip late Thursday.
