Gaming opportunities may be increased at Penobscot Indian Nation's Sockalexis Bingo Palace if bingo officials see a significant increase in interest with the arrival of slot machines a few miles away.
Although no decision has been made, General Manager Miles Francis said Friday that staff are doing an in-house feasibility study and will continue to explore the option of increasing the number of bingo events from seven to possibly 12 a year.
The director of the state Gaming Division -- Keith Lauer -- says state law allows anyone under 18 to play bingo if accompanied by an adult. Lauer says children are required to file a federal tax return if they win $1,200 or more.
Prairie Public Broadcasting's Dakota Skies bingo parlor is the only one in Bismarck. Prairie Public Vice President Don Berg says the age limit was lowered from 16 to ten for bingo players after a state smoking ban took effect, to make it more of a family atmosphere.
Pearlie Mae Williams is 53 years old. She is from Detroit, Michigan and has become the lucky bingo jackpot winner at Windsor Ontario's Classic Bingo V.
Pearlie Mae Williams has been playing in various bingo halls for over eighteen years. In all this time, she has earned more than $170,000...
The latest data from Gala Bingo – the UK'S leading operator with 166 clubs - has revealed that 7 out of 10 of its most frequent members are men; exploding the myth that Bingo is just a ladies game.
Men, it would seem, are abandoning traditional male entertainment pursuits in favour of a night at bingo...
Bingo is coming to Princes Street, Scotland's premier thoroughfare. An English-based leisure firm is to open an adult gaming centre and tanning studio close to Edinburgh's west end with "Housey-Housey" sessions as part of the entertainment.
Tyne and Wear-based Matchurban has successfully applied to Edinburgh City Council for a public entertainment licence for the property where a wide range of gaming machines will be set up on the ground floor and basement along with bingo.
The British celebrity Kerry Katona, is the new face of Bingos.co.uk., as you can see on the site's front page: www.bingos.co.uk.
This sexy girl, doesn't seem to get tired of being a celebrity. Since she was part of the pop band 'Atomic Kitten' she's on every magazine of London. Then her fame increased with her modeling and when she won the reality show: 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!'...
One of the first things Shippensburg Lions Club member Earl Nollenberger will tell you about bingo is that the people who play are almost as dedicated as he is.
Nollenberger, 55, who has been organizing the Lions Club bingo tent at the Shippensburg Community Fair for the past decade, explains the purpose of bingo is twofold. "We're here to have some fun and provide some entertainment," says Nollenberger, "but we also raise a lot of money for our charities."
A professor of biology at Shippensburg University for 32 years, Nollenberger takes a guess at why the bingo tent is so popular, "I guess it's just a great place to sit down and relax without spending a lot of money"...
Jennifer Aniston says she still loves her estranged husband Brad Pitt. But she also revealed the pair are no longer talking.
''I will love him for the rest of my life. He's a fantastic man,'' she told Vanity Fair magazine.
But she says she had no idea that Pitt was allegedly having a relationship with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar, Angelina Jolie.
''The world was shocked and I was shocked,'' Aniston says. ``I'd be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment"...
Casinos, sporting events, lotteries, Internet gaming... Opportunities to gamble are everywhere. But what do you do when the gambling gets out of control?
Dog races, card games, slot machines, dice, sporting events, lotteries, Internet gaming, bingo, the stock market...
Gambling has become increasingly persuasive in our society and widely endorsed as a fun and exciting form of entertainment. But for some people, it has serious social, financial, interpersonal, and emotional costs.
World Bingo League Co. Inc. (NASDAQ PINK SHEETS:WBLG), a Nevada company headquartered in Vancouver, announced plans to broaden its mandate to develop software to include other Internet games rather than exclusively focus on Bingo.
As part of its new mandate, President Louis Dion also announced the company's name change to World Entertainment Corp. - better reflecting the company's expanded interests.
