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Rocky Gap Casino opens doors in western Maryland

The newly christened Rocky Gap Casino Resort is opening its doors to the public in western Maryland. The casino opened its doors Wednesday after winning approval from state gambling regulators. It is Maryland's fourth casino and will add 250 jobs to the resort formerly known as the Rocky Gap Lodge ...

A sampling of editorials from around New York

The Buffalo News on the assemblyman who called on Speaker Sheldon Silver to step down. May 21 Alone among Democrats in the New York state Assembly, Michael P. Kearns has the nerve to call on Speaker Sheldon Silver to step down in light of Silver's maneuvers to protect a serial ...

Ohio lawmakers advance Internet cafe crackdown

Ohio state lawmakers moved boldly Tuesday against storefront sweepstakes parlors they have come to view as illegal gambling operations, advancing separate bills effectively banning the operations statewide and blocking startups until the ban takes hold. The Senate State Government Oversight committee overwhelmingly approved the ban over the objections of a ...

Oregon Editorial Rdp

Editorials from Oregon newspapers Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, on shopping for health insurance. A funny thing happened on the way to health care reform: Insurance companies began to compete with each other, right out in the open. A comparison of premiums that health insurers propose to begin charging next ...

FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, show attendees walk past Microsoft XBox booth at E3 2012 in Los Angeles. With the next Xbox expected to finally be revealed Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., anticipation for what the company is planning for the next iteration of its gaming console is higher than Master Chief's last spaceship. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Microsoft touts Xbox One as all-in-1 entertainment

Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company unveiled the Xbox One, an entertainment console that wants to be the one system households will need for games, television, movies, sports and other entertainment. It will go on sale later this year, for an undisclosed price. For the past two years, ...

FILE - In this May 9, 2013 file photo, Cindy Amberger, left, and her partner, Lynne Hvidsten, celebrate after the Minnesota House passed the gay marriage bill Thursday, May 9, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The Senate passed the bill and Gov. Mark Dayton signed it into law. The successful push to legalize gay marriage is likely to be what most Minnesotans remember about the 2013 legislative session. (AP Photo/Jim Mone,File)

Minn. session '13: What got done, what didn't

Minnesota state lawmakers promised when the legislative session began that their top priority was setting a new state budget. To that end, they produced a $38.3 billion two-year spending plan that hikes taxes on top income earners and on cigarettes, and distributes hefty spending increases to public schools, freezes tuition ...

PA Lottery

These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Monday: Cash 5 01-06-09-13-32 (one, six, nine, thirteen, thirty-two) Estimated jackpot: $125,000 Evening Big 4 9-5-6-5 (nine, five, six, five) Evening Daily Number 6-8-3 (six, eight, three) Evening Quinto 6-3-1-1-4 (six, three, one, one, four) Match 6 Lotto 16-20-21-31-32-39 (sixteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-nine) ...

A vehicle passes the front of the Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., Sunday, May 19, 2013. The highest Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $590.5 million was sold recently at this Publix supermarket. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)

Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city ...

This May 3, 2013 photo shows the swimming pool at the Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland, Md. Maryland’s fourth casino is tentatively scheduled to open Wednesday, May 22, pending state regulators’ approval of the slot machines and table games at a demonstration Monday, May 20. (AP Photo/Cumberland Times-News, Greg Larry)  WHAG-TV OUT

Rocky Gap Casino offers new deal in western Md.

The flashy jangle of slot machines is a far cry from the stillness of Rocky Gap State Park in western Maryland, but state and local leaders are betting that this week's planned casino opening will transform a struggling lakeside lodge into the economic engine its planners envisioned 15 years ago. ...

Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the ...

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