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Wild West
February 9, 2005
R.K. DeArment |
No Sure Bet: Gambling on the Frontier Recreation in the Old West oftentimes meant betting on the turn of a deck of cards. But for many colorful Westerners, gambling was a serious, sometimes deadly, business.   |
Wild West
April 2007
Peter Brand |
Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Posse The blood of his brothers Virgil and Morgan was on Cowboys' hands, and the time had come for Wyatt Earp, with a little help from his gun-toting friends, to gallop around the legal system in search of raw justice in Arizona Territory. |
Wild West
Roger Jay |
The Gamblers' War in Tombstone Before the bloody feud with the Cowboys reached a head, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and other 'Easterners' had to deal with the 'Slopers,' sporting men who had operated on the Pacific Coast. |
Wild West
October 2005
Roger Jay |
Reign of the Rough-Scuff: Law and Lucre in Wichita Wyatt Earp and other lawmen 'disciplined' the Texas drovers who sought entertainment at the end of the trail, and also fined those in the Kansas cow town who provided the entertainment. |
Wild West
Paul & Carlisle |
Gunfighters and Lawmen: Virgil Earp The brother of Wyatt enforced the law before and after his famous stint as Tombstone's marshal. By 1890, his lawmen days were almost over, but not so his adventures. |
Wild West
P.A. Mallory |
The Dodge City War When saloon owner Luke Short was told to get out of Dodge in 1883, he went. But he soon came back, and he was joined by the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday. |
Wild West
Orval E. Allbritton |
Lawmen's Heated Gun Battle in Hot Springs In the popular Arkansas resort town, members of the police department and sheriff's office resorted to violence in March 1899 -- against each other. |
Wild West
Ben T. Traywick |
The Real Doc Holliday Southerner John Henry -- better known as Doc Holliday -- became a dentist, went West for his health and was soon transformed into a legendary killer. But just how deadly was he? |
Wild West
Roger Jay |
'The Peoria Bummer': Wyatt Earp's Lost Year The future lawman and O.K. Corral legend was seized in several 1872 police raids -- twice at brothels in Peoria, Ill., and once on a floating brothel downriver. |
Wild West
Richard F. Selcer |
Fort Worth's Wild White Elephant Saloon For three decades, the Main Street establishment offered some of the finest gambling and food in the Wild West, as well as a few shootouts to remember. |
Wild West
Ben Traywick |
Boothill The old cemetery boasts graves of Clantons, McLaurys and other legendary Tombstone characters -- not to mention some of the world's most famous (and funny) epitaphs. |
Wild West
October 2006 |
Wyatt Earp's First Star Young Wyatt Earp wears his badges well. Here, a rare photo of Earp as a young boy shows him wearing two stars on his shirt and carrying some rope in his pocket just in case of trouble. |
Reason
June 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Some Bets Are Off The strangely selective and self-defeating crackdown on Internet gambling. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Betting on Uncle Sam Online gamblers are waiting for legislators to make their Wild West world a safer place to wager -- but the government keeps waffling. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
U.S. Ban on Online Gambling on Way Out? A look at the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and efforts to overturn it like House Resolution 2267. H.R. 2267 has numerous problems. |
Reason
May 2006
Greg Beato |
Sin Cities on a Hill How legalized gambling in America moved from the Strip to Main Street. |
Salon.com
January 10, 2002
Kristy Siegfried |
Gamblers Inc. In California, betting to win can be a buttoned-down, corporate slog through the salary-man trenches... |
InternetNews
November 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
New York Hits Internet Gambling Operation Law enforcement officials claim Web site was generating more than a $1 billion a year. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Seeks to Cut Cash Flow to Online Gambling Approved on a close voice vote by the House Financial Services Committee, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act requires financial institutions to identify and block payments to offshore casinos, sports book and other online gambling sites. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2007 |
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Pay up on Gambling Fines The U.S. had accused Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo of helping to promote illegal Internet gambling. |
Salon.com
June 1, 2000
David Shields |
The guilty pleasures of Seattle Even facing a Microsoft breakup, the city is prospering like never before. So why do these people feel so guilty? |
InternetNews
February 17, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Bet on New Online Gambling Ban The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act proposes to make it illegal for Americans to use the Internet for gambling and would authorize law enforcement officials to stop credit card payments and other forms of electronic payments. |
Registered Rep.
March 29, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Ex-Merrill Broker Nabbed in Online Gambling Sting The latest instance of gambling ribaldry involves a former Merrill Lynch broker who was among 17 people arrested for allegedly operating a $30 million online-gambling operation out of a strip club, according to a Reuters report. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Passes Ban on Internet Gambling In the sharpest attempt yet to curb Internet gambling by Americans, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to ban financial payments to offshore casinos. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Banks Rap Internet Anti-Gambling Proposal Legislation designed to put a dent in Internet gambling ran into opposition Wednesday from the banking industry and, surprisingly, the Traditional Values Coalition. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2007
Roy Mark |
Craps! Neteller to Forfeit $136M Neteller agreed today to forfeit $136 million in profits and return $94 million in American online gamblers' funds it is holding as part of a plea deal for violating U.S. gambling laws. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Tom Wailgum |
E-Bookies As NFL fans and the two football finalists geared up for Super Bowl XXXVII on Jan. 26, in San Diego, so too were online gambling sites. It's a safe bet that a good portion of the Internet gambling industry's 2003 revenue (about $5 billion) was at stake. |
Reason
September 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Aiding and Betting Federal prosecutors say helping Americans find online casinos or sports betting operations could amount to "aiding and abetting" illegal gambling, a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. |
Reason
April 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Pirate Island The WTO rules in Antigua's favor, claiming that the U.S. did discriminate against foreign-based online gambling websites, but awards the island nation much less than they were hoping for. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2007 |
U.S. Budges (a Little) on 'Net Gambling The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica. |
PC World
November 21, 2006
Andy Sullivan |
New Law Won't Stop Internet Gambling Federal legislation bans credit-card payments, but sites have alternatives. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Spencer E. Ante |
High Stakes For Casino City CEO Michael Corfman is suing the Justice Dept. over online gambling ads. The Justice Dept. has sent letters to Web sites and broadcasters that accept such ads, informing them they "may be aiding and abetting these illegal activities." |
Fast Company
May 2009
Garth Stein |
Seattle: City of the Year The capital of the Pacific Northwest is blessed with divine geography, frontier spirit, and an abundance of both artists and geeks. Plus, it's not even that rainy. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Lawmakers Hear Protests Over Internet Gambling Ban Legal experts, professional poker players and Justice Department representatives square off on current and proposed laws banning online betting. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2007
Jeff Hwang |
Is Buffett Right About Gambling? In response to Buffett's negative comments on the gambling industry, this stock analyst says that gambling may indeed tax ignorance -- but only to the extent that education does not suffice. |
Wild West
April 2007 |
Letters from Readers Ike Story Liked... West Fuller... Jesse and the Map... Great-Granduncle... |
Financial Advisor
May 2007
Raymond Fazzi |
The Pete Rose Of A Client Financial advisors are trained in helping people devise rational plans for their money. But what is an advisor to do when a client starts managing their money irrationally -- by gambling it away? |
Sports Central
April 6, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
States Rushing to Legalize Sports Betting Many U.S. states are on the precipice of bankruptcy and are desperate for that magic bullet to increase tax revenues without continually cutting services for their already over-taxed residents. |
Reason
July 2007
Radley Balko |
Pirates of the Caribbean A three-judge panel found that the recently enacted Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act runs afoul of global trade agreements. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Safe Bet New regulations, issued in November, no longer insist that banks and other payment processors figure out the difference between legal and illegal online gambling, a distinction Congress deliberately left vague. |
