ALABAMA - A state Senator was among 16 people arrested as they protested against police seizing machines from a popular bingo hall. Angry protestors blocked the entrance to the Greenetrack bingo facility for 12 hours before being arrested. They were trying to prevent state troopers from carrying out the Alabama governor’s orders to seize 800 electronic [...]
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The Bingo World 2009 conference will see 28 exhibitors offering their services at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in March 3 and 4. In alphabetical order, the exhibitors are: American Games Bingo Bugle Newspapers BNW, Inc (Bingo Novelty World) Clarence J. Venne, LLC Cole Industries, Inc. Elbet FortuNet, Inc. Fun Industries, Inc. Game Tech International Gaming Laboratories International Hayes Specialties Corporation I.C.E., Inc. Innovative Gaming Systems Las [...]
Fire officials have ordered eight Alabama bingo halls to be closed temporarily after they breached fire regulations. The charity bingo halls, all in Walker County, Alabama, were told they had inadequate fire protection for their clients. State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said. “We didn’t have an adequate sprinkler system in any one of these buildings.” Six of [...]
A police raid on the VFW Bingo Hall in Roebuck, Alabama ended with more than 1,000 bingo machines confiscated by state troopers. The raid was requested by Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls who warned that he was considering targetting other bingo halls in the county. The VFW bingo hall was raided at 6am on Monday 17 [...]
A Democrat legislator has introduced a bill to reform bingo playing in Arkansas; it would include repealing the one-cent bingo card tax, raise prize funds in bingo game sessions, decrease the cost of a bingo permit and increase the number of sessions bingo operators can play per week from two to three. Rep. Tracy Pennartz, D-Fort [...]
The Alabama Attorney General has asked the Alabama Supreme Court to delay or stop the introduction of electronic bingo in the state, An Etowah County Circuit Court ruling on October 17 allowed a $200 million bingo development to go ahead which proponents say will create 1,000 jobs, Two developers, Coosa Entertainment Group and CBS Supply, are shortlisted [...]
Cash and checks were stolen from a bingo parlor in Boise, police said. An unknown amount of cash and checks were taken from the Big Bucks Bingo parlor, at 5443 Glenwood Street, Boise, according to officers. An alarm system appears to have failed and no suspects have been identified.
A Michigan bingo player hit a huge $37,531 jackpot on Monday night. Lisa Buehrle, 39, was playing at the Cherry Hill Bingo Hall in Wayne County, Michigan. She will split the prize with her friend, Amy, who agreed to split any winnings 50-50 at the start of the evening. Ms Buehrle, who is a mother and grandmother, [...]
The Bingo Barn in Northglenn, Denver, Colorado has gone into liquidation, owning creditors hundreds of thousands of dollars. Documents filed with Adams County show the company owes North Valley Bank for $673,223.49, with other creditors owed smaller amounts. Bingo Barn has gone into foreclosure. Documents filed with Adams County a few weeks ago show that the company [...]
A bingo hall will be opening in Dunn, North Carolina after the City Council gave approval for a 35 seater premises. Beach Bingo will open at 711 West Broad Street and prizes will be limited to maximum prizes of $10. The hall will be open on Mondays and from Thursday to Saturday between 6 pm and [...]
A couple in Springfield, Illinois found themselves under arrest after an argument in which they threw a bingo dabber at each other. Police arrested Jerry J. Pitts, 23, and Chyrl S. Miller, 22, both of the 1100 block of South 16th Street, after Ms Miller called the police to complain about a shoulder injury allegedly caused [...]
NEW MEXICO, USA – Bingo games will no longer be played at the Apache Homelands Entertainment Centre in southern New Mexico after the trible operating the casino reached a deal with the federal government. In July the National Indian Gaming Commission ordered the Fort Sill Apache Tribe to stop playing bingo under threat of a daily [...]
A bingo manager shot an armed robber dead after the raider fired a shot into the bingo hall ceiling and demanded money. The 20 year old robber, Alton Prewitt, walked into the Beachside Bingo hall, Pensacola, Florida last Wednesday carrying a shotgun. The manager, Chad England, picked up a handgun and fired in self defense, fatally [...]
The manager of a bingo hall in Penscola, Florida who shot and killed an armed robber will not face charges, police say. Chad England, manager of the Beachside Bingo hall, shot and killed an armed raider on Wednesday night. The 20-year-old raider, who was later identified as Alton Prewitt, 20, raided the bingo hall at 10pm last [...]
The Californian women who claimed the comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen had caused her emotional distress during the filming of his 2007 hit Bruno must pay his legal fees after losing her court case. Richelle Olson sued Cohen in June 2009, claiming Bruno was an “extreme, outrageous, offensive caricature of a gay man dressed in sexually [...]
175 players at the Select Auditorium bingo hall in Muskegon, Michigan were evicted from an early evening bingo session after a nitrogen leak. A storage tank at a nearby laboratory had cracked, leaving the area covered by a white cloud of liquid nitrogen. The gas can cause nausea, vomiting and even death if large quantities are [...]
A plan to increase the size of bingo prizes in Kansas has been rejected by a Senate committee. The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee rejected a proposal from Kansas’ 27 bingo parlors that would permit greater frequency of bingo events, raised game prize limits and permit volunteers to be served a meal. The bill had been [...]
RICHMOND, CA – A newly opened bingo hall has been shuttered after its city license was withdrawn and its landlord opened proceedings to evict it. The Marina Bay Bingo Club in Richmond was opened with a fanfare of publicity on 31 March with local politicians and charities hailing the 32,000 square foot 500 person facility as [...]
THE chances of online bingo being legalized in the USA took a backward step last night after a bill to allow online poker in California failed to even go to a vote in the California Senate. The bill proposed that online poker would be allowed in California with up to 20 per cent of the profits [...]
A bingo player in Cleveland claims an employee threw a bingo computer unit at her when it malfunctioned. The woman said she was playing bingo at Trinity High School in Granger Road, Garfield Heights, Cleveland when her computer unit malfunctioned. She took it to the help desk and asked an employee to help. She claims that the [...]
The planned opening of a Concord bingo hall is being further delayed as the decision on whether it can open has now been referred to the City Council. Pop’s Bingo World was granted approval to open a bingo hall on Willow Pass Road, Concord, in April 2010 but a rival bingo hall, the Concord Blue Devils [...]
Bingo players in Fort Myers, Florida are still waiting for a refund from a New Year’s Eve bingo celebration that never took place. Players paid between $50 and $100 per ticket for the Port Charlotte Bingo event but it was cancelled and players are still waiting for a refund. Bingo hall owner Hernan Vizcaino has promised [...]
Four men have been charged with armed robbery of an American Legion bingo hall on Pinson Valley Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama. Police said a man entered the American Legion bingo hall at 11pm on Tuesday 18 August and pointed a 9mm handgun at the club’s cashier. A second man guarded the door with a shotgun. They fled the [...]
The Franklin Bingo Hall on the Kentucky state line was completely destroyed after a fire that started in a kitchen, The 27 December fire saw crews from Simpson county, Orlinda, Portland and White House, Tennessee battle to save the bingo hall but with no luck. 200 people were playing bingo when the fire broke out in the [...]
A man is being sought by police after he robbed a Granite City bingo hall with a sawed-off shot gun. The Knights of Columbus bingo hall at 5224 Old Alton Road, Granite City, IL had around 150 players on Sunday night when a tall black man walked in brandishing a gun at 7.11pm. He took an [...]
Police in Greensboro, New Jersey reported that a man robbed Marcella’s Bingo on the day before Christmas. An armed masked man wearing a camouflage jacket approached a female employee as she was leaving the premises at 1am and stole company and personal cash. Marcella’s Bingo is at 811 W. Lee Street in Greensboro, NJ.
The Helping Hands Charity Bingo Hall in Walker County, Alabama was closed with immediate effect by a judge who ruled that it was breaking the law. Judge Robert Vance said that it had not complied with state laws which limited the opening times of bingo halls and the number of sessions that could be played each [...]
A 12,000 square foot building in Cleveland, Detriot that housed a bingo hall for nearly 20 years is available for rent. The 78th Street Studios Building is being offered with all existing fittings, which would mean that bingo could be up and running in the premises in under a month. The owner, Dan Bush, said he was [...]
Hundreds of people linked up at Alabama’s Gadsden State Community College to apply for jobs at a new bingo facility. 400 jobs are likely to be on offer at the bingo hall which will be located at the Little Canoe Creek industrial site in Etowah County, Alabama. Developer CBS Supply was running the job fair for potential [...]
Delegates at Bingo World 2009 will have a whole morning of sessions about Bingo and the Internet as the US bingo industry works out how the online world will impact their business. There will be three different sessions from 9am to 12.30pm, titled The Hottest Game on the ‘Net, Internet Bingo – A New American Tradition [...]
Iowa’s charity bingo operators are asking for state taxes on their bingo halls to be lowered as the current rate makes them unviable. Iowa law currently imposes a 6 percent sales tax and 1 percent local option sales tax on every ticket sold, making a total of 7 percent on gross revenues. Operators are lobbying for a [...]
Jessica Simpson decided to bring some glam to bingo, although she wasn’t playing actually playing our favorite game. Last month she sang in the 2,500 capacity Highland Bingo Hall in California, a far-cry from the glitzy venues that she’s used to. Admittedly, her career has hit the buffers recently, so much so that ‘J-Simp’ was more [...]
A LaCenter pastor is opposing a school district that plans to use bingo to raise funds. Richard Hicks of Resurrection Fellowship Church in LaCenter, KY says that bingo will only increase the number of gambling addicts and the Ballard County School District should find other ways to raise funds. The Ballard County School District wants to use [...]
ALABAMA -The vast majority of Alabama’s bingo halls are likely to close after the Jefferson County district attorney declared them to be breaking the law. Brandon Falls, the district attorney for the Birmigham district, said that the halls were for-profit businesses rather than charity ventures and that if they did not close with 10 days they [...]
A bingo hall in Lockport, New York has had $8,200 stolen from a safe by robbers. The Elks Lodge bingo hall at 6791 North Canal Road in Niagra County was raided some time on the night of Monday 10 August. A cleaner arrived at 4am to find a rock had been thrown through a window and phone [...]
KINSTON, NORTH CAROLINA -A man is in hospital after being viciously stabbed in a bingo hall fight. The fight took place on Saturday night at Mickey’s Beach Bingo, New Bern Road in Kinston, NC. Police have arrested Eugene Moore over the incident; he is charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury. The victim, [...]
A 46 year old man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing cash from a bingo hall register. David Chewey, 46, is charged with robbing the West Side Bingo Parlor in the West Side Mall in Edwardsville, PA. Police officers were called to the bingo hall at 1.30pm on Monday and told that the suspect, who [...]
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Police in Kent County, Michigan are searching for two robbers who grabbed cash at a local bingo hall. The men walked into the Westgate Bowl bingo hall on Alpine Avenue at about 6pm on Saturday and one snatched a cash drawer from an employee. They ran away and drove off in a dark colored Chevrolet S-10 [...]
A woman won a massive $26,000 in a bingo game in Westland, Michigan and then found the check bounced when she tried to deposit it in her bank account. Misty Laturnus of Inkster, Michigan won the money at the Ford Wayne Civil League bingo hall on July 11. The pregnant mother of three hit B6 to win [...]
A plan to expand the number of charity bingo halls in Missouri looks set to fail after the Governor vetoed legislation that would improve the taxation of bingo. Currently there is a 0.2 cent tax on every bingo card sold in Missouri but a bill was passed to abolish this tax and ease restrictions on which [...]
Former employees of a bingo parlor in Monroe, Louisiana have accused managers of irregular practices in the running of their bingo games. The Louisiana State Department of Gaming is now investigating the complaints relating to the DeSiard Street Bingo Parlor. Carliss Underwood, manager of the parlor, told the Monroe Free Press that the investigation was sparked by [...]
New Mexico has a new bingo hall following the opening of the Fire Rock Casino in Gallup, New Mexico. The Najavo Nation casino includes slots, poker and a large bingo hall. 4,000 people turned up for the opening of the casino. A large number of those were forced to wait in line to get in because [...]
Mort Zuckerman has urged US legislators to allow newspapers to run bingo games – including online bingo – in an attempt to save the American newspaper industry. In an interview with New York he said: “Just make bingo legal on our websites…. The newspapers in England are supported almost exclusively by the profitability of running bingo [...]
Greenetrack, West Alabama’s only major bino hall, is being investigated amidst claims it is operating outside the law. The Greene County Sheriff’s Department confirmed they had been investigating the bingo hall since 2007; the investigation is being led by Sheriff Ison Thomas, a former head of security at Greenetrack. In addition, State Senator Hank Sanders has complained [...]
Revenues from bingo have dipped in Nebraska during the first half of 2009 with state officials admitting they are down approximately 10 per cent on last year. Gross proceeds fell from $2,717,750 in the first quarter of 2009 to $631,505 in the second quarter, while state taxes paid fell from $81,533 to $78,945 in the same [...]
CONCORD, CA - A new bingo hall has opened in Concord, CA in a former gym. Pop’s Bingo World is located at 1505 Willow Pass Road, near the Willows Shopping Center. The bingo hall is on the site of the old Velocity gym and will run charitable bingo to raise money for local charities, including the [...]
A new 48,000 square foot building in Eutaw, Alabama will be a huge bingo hall, it has been announced. The Greene County construction will be next door to the well-known Cotton Patch restaurant. The building, which is on a 36 acre site, is almost completed although the parking lot has yet to be paved; officials close to [...]
A new bingo hall is planned for York County, South Carolina. The hall is to be built by the Catawba Indian Nation, according to tribe chief Donal Rodgers. He said he hoped to open it by the end of 2009 but would not identify a location. The Catawba Indian Nation has tried to run a bingo hall [...]
A firefighter in Ticonderoga, New York has been accused of stealing funds from their weekly bingo. The Ticonderoga Fire Department holds a weekly fundraising bingo game and called in the police earlier this year after noticing funds were missing. After an extensive investigation firefighter William Pullar, 28, has been charged with fourth degree grand larceny. Police said [...]
Wisconsin’s Oneida Bingo and Casino operation is suffering from the recession but still doing better than Las Vegas or Atlantic City. General manager Neil Cornelius told the Green Bay Press Gazette that the bingo hall and casino in Ashwaubenon is seeing customers be more careful in their spending habits. They are looking to concerts and other [...]
Pensacola, Florida is set to get its own bingo hall after the City Council voted 9-1 in favor of allowing one. An empty building on North Ninth Avenue has been designated as a suitable property for the bingo hall and is being rezoned to allow bingo play. Residents of Pensacola currently currently have to drive out of [...]
Police in Shelbyville, IN are searching for a thief who stole money from the American Legion Bingo Hall. The man, who is described as “skinny with very little teeth”, fled from the hall with an undisclosed amount of cash. City police said bingo players had chased the thief down Miller Avenue but had failed to catch him. [...]
Player number and revenues have fallen sharply for charitable bingo operators in Virginia, according to local organisers. “Our game is declining and meeting our charitable obligation is becoming more difficult,”said Deb Clements, president of the Powhatan High School Band Boosters, in an interview with her local newspapers. Her group holds weekly bingo games at the Powhatan [...]
A robber who tried to hold up a bingo hall called “It’s Your Lucky Day” is not alive to see the irony of his killing by a security guard. William Cantrell Jr, 43, entered the charity bingo hall in Jasper, Alabama on Saturday night at around 11pm and fired a shotgun into the ceiling. He then [...]
A man who robbed a South San Francisco Boys & Girls Club bingo night has been jailed for eight years. The robbery took place four years ago but Curtis Commo has only been jailed now after protracted legal arguments about his mental state; in 2006 a judge ruled he was mentally handicapped and should not stand [...]
Bingo players in San Francisco will soon be able to win up to $500 per game, double the current limits, under a proposal that is being considered. The City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee agreed to send to the full board a propoal by Supervisor Bevan Dufty to raise prize limits in San Francisco for charity [...]
Six bingo halls in Walker County, Alabama are being permitted to stay open after a judge said that a change to their business model may make them legal. Circuit Judge Robert Vance Jr. had ordered six bingo halls - Carbon Hill Bingo, Walker County Bingo, Dreams Come True Charity Bingo, Blackwater Bingo, Ba Da Bingo and [...]
SOUTH CAROLINA – Two bingo halls owners in Richland County, South Carolina are suing each other over claims that each is deliberately flouting a ban on smoking. The owners of Mr Bingo and Carolina Gold Bingo have hired lawyers and private investigators to investigate each other. At stake is whether each is allowing players to smoke [...]
The Texas Bingo Advisory Committee is looking for nominations for new members. Three positions are available and anyone working in the charity bingo sector in the state is being encouraged to apply. The Bingo Advisory Committee also said that their next meeting will be at 10am on October 21, 2009 in the first floor auditorium of [...]
Bingo in Texas raised $680 million for state coffers, making it the most successful years ever for bingo in the state. The Texas Lottery Commission said that bingo, which has been legal since 1981, was an important part of the state’s fundraising. According to the lottery commission’s website, 17.5 million people played bingo in Texas in 2008 [...]
A security guard who was accompanying a bingo player to her car was shot and killed in San Antonio, Texas. The security guard was helping the woman leave I-35 Bingo on the Northeast Side at the end of the evening when a robber ran up and shot the guard multiple times. The man, who was in his [...]
Texas charitable bingo raised $6.1 million for states and local city and county coffers in the third quarter of 2008, according to information released by the Texas Lottery Commission. Cities and counties received $2.9 million while the Charitable Bingo Operations Division allocated $3.2 million to the state’s General Revenue Fund. The $6.1 million figure was down 2.8 per [...]
Donations to Texan county and city coffers from charitable bingo operations rose 5.3 per cent from the same period last year, according to figures released this week. $3.2 million was allocated for the second quarter of 2009, up 0.9 per cent on the first quarter. The Charitable Bingo Operations Division also allocated an additional $3.5 million [...]
A state judge has ruled that eight of the roughly 30 bingo halls in Walker County, Alabama should close with immediate effect unless they can show good reason why they should stay open. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance supported the view put to the court by Sheriff John Mark Tirey that the bingo halls were legally [...]
The operator of the Tonkawa Bingo and Casino has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of filing a false income tax return over a three year period. Edward Eugene Street, 43, was arrested and arraigned in federal court on Wednesday, according to U.S. Attorney John C. Richter. The indictment states that Street, the owner of [...]
Two Pennsylvania bingo halls have become one of the first premises in the state to be issued a citation for allowing smoking. The State Department of Health last week issued citations to King’s Hall Bingo on South 29th Street, Harrisburg for permitting smoking and not displaying no smoking signs. The hall will be fined $500 unless [...]
Two women were shot as they played bingo at a North Carolina bingo hall. The two women were playing at the Veterans of Foreign War Post bingo hall in Burlington, North Carolina on Sunday afternoon. Jessica Stephens, 24, was reportedly shot several times, and is in critical condition at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. The other [...]
The three video bingo parlours in Hammond, Louisiana won $4.5 million from players over the past year. The parlors, which are in their second year of operation, paid $216,898 in taxes to the city, which represents 20 per cent of the net win from the bingo operations. The three operators - Cypress Palace Bingo, Hammond Bingo [...]
The new Wind Creek Bingo and Casino facility in Alabama opens today. The 57,000 square foot facility in Atmore is owned and operated by The Poarch Band of Creek Indians. It is just 55 miles from downtown Pensacola. The new operation boasts 1,600 electronic bingo machines but will not offer blackjack or poker. A 236 room hotel section [...]
CALEDONIA, WISCONSIN -Two masked gunmen robbed an Elks Lodge bingo hall of $400 last Saturday night. The evening bingo session had just begun when the two mean entered the bingo room and threatened players with guns. Elks Lodge trustee Al Derga told 12 News: “I saw the door open, and I looked over and saw a guy [...]
A woman was arrested after disturbing customers in a Louisiana bingo hall. Barbara Ann Miller, 50, was asked to keep her voice down and after she refused a police officer’s request to cash out and leave was arrested. An office duty office arrested the woman at Metro Bingo Hall in Monroe, LA. The player claimed the bingo [...]
A woman died in a car crash on her way home from her regular bingo game in San Jose, California. The 81 year old woman was names as Gloria Foster by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office. She had been playing bingo at the American Legion Hall at 2120 Walsh Avenue in Santa Clara. As she pulled [...]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – A Pennsylavnia woman stole more than $100,000 from the charity she worked for to pay for her bingo habit, police said. Anne Patricia Hudanick was charged with theft from Creating Unlimited Possibilities, a state-funded social services organization that largely helps people with cerebal palsy. Hudanick, 58, had been the book-keeper at Creating Unlimited Possibilities [...]
