Gambling News by House of Odds

Associated Press - March 6, 2009 1:34 PM ET LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man convicted of trying to cheat a slot machine has been nominated for a place in Nevada gambling regulators' black book.

It might be tough times and diminished expectations now, but from 1918 to 1957, Galveston Island was known as a "wide-open" town, where prostitution, smuggling, bootlegging and gambling all flourished. Many remember the 1940s and early '50s as the glory days of "the Free State of Galveston," when th .