Gambling News by House of Odds

Authority may be formed to distribute funds to municipalities. On the surface, a Northampton County Council panel's hourlong discussion Monday seemed like insider baseball, detailing the mechanics of how the county will dole out the expected $2.8 million in gambling host fee money to the five municipalities bordering the casino in Bethlehem.

AirTran Airways will discontinue its daily flight between Tampa International Airport and Gulfport-Biloxi (Miss.) International Airport, effective Jan. 5, after a casino discontinued subsidies for flights between Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and the Mississippi gambling destination.