January 2025

A winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million was redeemed with the Hoosier Lottery in Indiana just five hours before the paper ticket slip was set to expire. A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was redeemed just hours before it was set to expire on Dec. 26, 2024. Indiana’s Hoosier Lottery says the winners fortunately found…

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A day after the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in the US occurred in New Orleans, it’s worth revisiting how Las Vegas responded to its own vehicle-ramming attack nine years ago. Cement bollards, installed in response to a December 2015 vehicle-ramming attack near Planet Hollywood, can be seen lining both sides of the Las Vegas Strip in…

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Can any remaining team in the College Football Playoff (CFP) beat Ohio State? If the Buckeyes play like they did last night in the Rose Bowl, it’s seemingly unlikely. Ohio State celebrates its dominating Rose Bowl win on Jan. 1, 2024. The Buckeyes are now favored to win the College Football Playoff National Championship. (Image:…

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Authorities continue to unravel the puzzling New Year’s Day explosion which left one person dead and seven injured outside of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. Remains of a Cybertruck, pictured above. The vehicle exploded and burst into flames outside of the Trump International Hotel. Accelerants were in the truck’s bed. (Image: LVMPD via WJLA)…

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Last year was a mostly tepid one for Macau casino stocks and with the December and 2024 gross gaming revenue (GGR) report released earlier today similarly lukewarm, some investors may not be enthusiastic about these stocks to start 2025. However, at least one analyst believes the group is ripe for upside this year. The Wynn…

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UPDATE: One person inside a vehicle that exploded and caught fire died outside of the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday, according to local news reports. Seven other people in the area suffered minor injuries. Two required treatment at local hospitals. It appears many guests at the hotel were evacuated to Resorts World Las Vegas. The…

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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled against controversial skill games, slot-like gaming machines that combine elements of skill with chance. A skill games business in North Carolina is facing pressure to turn off its gaming machines after a state court deemed the terminals as illegal gambling apparatuses. Commonly called sweepstakes or fish games,…

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Update (2pm EST) — The Sugar Bowl has been postponed until Thursday. The Allstate Sugar Bowl remains scheduled for an 8:45 pm EST kickoff inside the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans despite the Big Easy being the site of a New Year’s massacre. Police investigators surround a white truck that ran down pedestrians along Bourbon…

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The six casino operators in Macau won 226.8 million patacas, or roughly US$28.3 billion, from gamblers in 2024. That marked a nearly 24% year-over-year surge on 2023 gross gaming revenue (GGR). Macau casinos won $28.3 billion from gamblers in 2024. The year continued Macau’s gaming recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Image: Reuters) Macau’s six casino…

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