A perfect storm of rising gas prices, summer doldrums and perhaps casino gambling is hitting midstate bingo, with dwindling attendance at the fund-raising games held by volunteer fire companies and ...

It's still your grandmother's game. But the cry of "bingo!" today has no one thinking of small change. Nearly two dozen area charitable organizations raked in more than $2 million each at bingo games ...

East Bay charities that operate electronic gaming machines to lift their bingo parlor profits fear a sudden state crackdown this week on some games in Sacramento could spread — and slash a major ...

In Portland, best known as an indie theme park full of hipsters and all stripes of coolness, the all-night bingo at the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) Bingo hall is an irony-free zone. At 3 a.m., ...

San Jose’s great bingo controversy is over. By pledging a “zero tolerance” vow against cheating, bingo volunteers at the city’s nine senior centers can now work – and play – games on the same day, ...

Robert King remembers the bingo heyday in the early 1990s when individual Colorado nonprofits generated $100,000 annually holding no more than three sessions per week. “You couldn’t beat it for ...

The beauty of bingo at the local VFW Hall is its simplicity. The problem of bingo on television is that suddenly it’s not so simple anymore. Game Show Network’s “Bingo America,” a nightly show that ...

Background: Some charities have come to rely on income from legally suspect bingo machines, slot machinelike devices that could violate monopoly guarantees in the state’s Indian gaming agreements.

LITTLE ROCK — Bingo supporters, mostly from veterans groups in the Fort Smith area facing competition from Oklahoma bingo and casinos, demanded Wednesday that the state stop taxing and regulating the ...

The new MacBook 2008 line-up. Oh yes. At last, after all this endless waiting, we are just a few hours away from the Apple MacBook 2008 event in which His Steveness will show the new wonderbooks to ...

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