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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — In the first eight months of legalized bingo in Arkansas, less than 6 percent of the proceeds went to charity. The state Department of Finance and Administration on Friday released to ...

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., ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — Rich, politically powerful Indian tribes are pushing California legislators to outlaw some casino competition: slot-like bingo machines that generate millions of dollars for high school ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. SOUTH PORTLAND — For the last 25 years, the South Portland Music Boosters ...

Sandy Johnson is about an hour and 18 minutes from her home in Bloomfield, N.J., but here, almost everyone knows her by name. Taking up her own table, Johnson sits with 10 or so daubers decorated with ...

Love it or leave it, you have to admit that the San Diego Comic Con brings out the ten year old kid in all of the attendees (including, this year, many entertainment types, who ran around the floor ...

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 ...