The retired firefighter recently scratched a lottery ticket of the same name and won the ticket’s top prize of $1 million from the Virginia Lottery. Cook bought the ticket at Happy Shopper at 3323 Hampton Hwy.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
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Lakes Entertainment sells Minnetonka headquarters
The buyer is Weidner Apartment Homes , the Kirkland, Wash.-based apartment investment company that spent more than $335 million in eight Twin Cities apartment deals since October 2013. Its biggest acquisition to date was the $109 million purchase of 222 Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis this March.
NTRA Announces NHC Dates, Updated Rules
The Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship presented by Racetrack Television Network and Treasure Island Las Vegas, will be held Jan. 28-30, 2016.
Stewart 'Feeling Good' About Tale of Verve
Dallas Stewart, trainer of Charles Fipke’s homebred Tale of Verve, finds himself in a familiar spot heading into Belmont Stakes (gr. I) June 6.
Sun and Warmer Temps Forecast for Belmont Day
After pretty much non-stop rain over the last 48 hours, a break in the precipitation is forecast for Elmont, N.Y., Wednesday before returning again Thursday and Friday, June 4-5.
Sherman Reflects on Belmont Past and Present
Leaning on the porch railing at Schwanies At The Gap, under a gray blanket of overcast clouds at Los Alamitos Race Course, Art Sherman’s essence appears untouched by the magical Triple Crown run 51 weeks ago.
Florida Governor Signs Medication Reform Bill
Florida Gov. Rick Scott June 2 signed into law legislation that will revamp equine medication and drug testing as part of a national movement.
UIGEA Supporter Hastert Disgraced
Dennis Hastert, the US politician at the center of a financial and sex abuse scandal was a bullish proponent of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, the 2006 law that criminalized online poker in America. Back in 2006 Hastert was also the author of the American Values Agenda, which included the full prohibition of online gambling […]
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Buyers Selective On Day 1 of MM Yearling Sale
Buyers were particularly discerning on day one of the Magic Millions National yearling sale June 2 as the clearance rate came in at 69%.
Dude hacked Lottery Computers
Who needs psychics to reveal future lottery numbers when you can hack into the state lottery association and tamper with it? That apparently was the reasoning of Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51. Prosecutors believe Tipton inserted a thumb drive into a computer-the one that spits out random numbers for the lottery, says an article in the Des Moines Register , according to a report at arstechnica.com. At the time of this purported crime, Tipton was head of security for the Multi-State Lottery Association.
Yorktown Man is "Cash King" with $1M lottery win
The retired firefighter recently scratched a lottery ticket of the same name and won the ticket’s top prize of $1 million from the Virginia Lottery. Cook bought the ticket at Happy Shopper at 3323 Hampton Hwy.
WV Racing to Have Role in Legislative Review
The West Virginia Racing Commission June 2 authorized creation of a committee that will be charged with providing information to a legislative committee that will study the state’s racing and gaming industries.
American Pharoah Arrives at Belmont
Zayat Stables’ Triple Crown contender American Pharoah arrived June 2 at Long Island MacArthur Airport and soon after walked off a horse van at Belmont Park, ready for his run in the June 6 Belmont Stakes (gr. I).
Five New Additions for TOBA Owners Concierge
The TOBA Owners Concierge, which launched in March, recently welcomed five new additions, boosting the initiative’s participants to 25.
Betsson CEO Magnus Silfverberg leaving the gaming industry in July
Magnus Silfverberg, president and CEO of Swedish betting operator Betsson AB, has announced he’ll be leaving the company next month.
On Tuesday, Betsson announced that Silfverberg (pictured) would vacate the CEO chair on July 17, following the presentation of the company’s H1 earnings report. Silfverberg, who has been Betsson’s CEO for the past four years, is leaving the gaming industry to become CEO of business decision support organization Bisnode.
Betsson chairman Pontus Lindwall will step into the void created by Silfverberg’s departure until a permanent successor can be chosen. Lindwall has been chairman for the past four years but previously spent nine years as Betsson’s CEO. Lindwall’s chairman seat will be kept warm by current Betsson board member Lars Linder-Aronson while the search for a new CEO will begin “immediately.”
Silfverberg said he’d enjoyed “six fantastic years” with Betsson, during which time the company had “more than tripled in size and quadrupled its market value.” Silfverberg expressed confidence that he was leaving the company “in top shape with a very strong culture and I have great confidence that Betsson will continue to develop well n the future.”
FIFA president Sepp Blatter to resign as corruption allegations reach closer
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced he will step down from his role as allegations of corruption swirl ever closer to football’s iron throne.
Blatter surprised the world on Tuesday by announcing his decision, which came just days after he was re-elected to a fifth term as leader of the global football organization. In an early candidate for understatement of the year, Blatter said his re-election “does not seem to be supported by everybody in the world of football.”
Saying FFIA needed “a profound restructuring,” Blatter said he would call for a special election between December and March 2016 to appoint a new president. Blatter will stay on as FIFA boss until the election, which will be overseen by FIFA’s audit and compliance committee chairman Dominco Scala, who called Blatter’s decision “the most responsible way to ensure an orderly transition.”
In making his announcement, Blatter’s serious demeanor stood in stark contrast to his defiant press conference on Friday, when he rejected suggestions that he should stand down for the greater good of the organization. “Why would I step down? That would be admitting I did something wrong.”
Suspect arrested in stabbing death at Old Louisville gas station
Police said Charles L. Richardson, 32, entered the Shell Gas Station on Floyd Street at St. Catherine Street on Sunday, May 31 and stabbed 74-year-old Paul Cason, a retiree whose children said he dreamed of winning millions of dollars playing the lottery. Cason was rushed to University of Louisville Hospital where he died.
Dude hacked Lottery Computers
Who needs psychics to reveal future lottery numbers when you can hack into the state lottery association and tamper with it? That apparently was the reasoning of Eddie Raymond Tipton, 51. Prosecutors believe Tipton inserted a thumb drive into a computer-the one that spits out random numbers for the lottery, says an article in the Des Moines Register , according to a report at arstechnica.com. At the time of this purported crime, Tipton was head of security for the Multi-State Lottery Association.
De Kock Says American Pharoah a 'Super Horse'
As he prepares UAE Derby (UAE-II) winner Mubtaahij for the June 6 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), trainer Michael de Kock has no misconceptions about the task of trying to upend American Pharoah’s Triple Crown quest.