Muir teacher wins ‘Excellence in Education’ award Eric Williams uses field trips, other activities to prepare special ed students for life Check out this story on HometownLife.com: http://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/milford/2015/03/27/muir-teacher-honored/70382006/ Muir Middle School special education teacher Eric Williams poses for a photo with his nephews, Nick Dodge , Jack Dodge , and Michigan State University basketball coach Tom Izzo, after accepting his Excellence in Education Award from the Michigan Lottery.

Notes from across the scene in VegasVille, in a week topped by a comment from a gentleman who seemed about 70 years old, sitting next to me with a his wife at Thursday’s early performance of “Zumanity” at New York-New York. As the show’s expertly choreographed cage-fight scene between characters wearing black briefs and red pumps kissed to culminate the scene, the guy turned to his wife and said, “Did they have to do that?” I turned to them both and said, “Yes.

Global Visual Group has appointed 30-year retailing veteran Tony Mancini as CEO. Mancini has held significant senior executive leadership positions, including Las Vegas Sands Corp., MGM Mirage Design Group and Walt Disney Parks & Resorts/Walt Disney Imagineering, leading its global capital development portfolios worldwide.

Among the latest examples: Elaine Wynn , the co-founder and third-largest shareholder at Wynn Resorts, is fighting to retain her seat on the board of directors of the hotel-casino. Other board members voted against nominating her for another term, after she filed suit to lift restrictions on the sale of the stock she awarded in their 2010 divorce, the New York Times reports .

The operator of the Stratosphere and the two Arizona Charlie’s properties reversed a net loss and grew revenue in the fourth quarter. American Casino & Entertainment Properties said Thursday its net income of $200,000 for the quarter that ended Dec. 31 reversed a net loss of $2.8 million for the same period a year ago.

After months of delays, a controversial bill to ban online gambling received a hearing from a House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday, pushing it closer to a vote that may divide the GOP and test Republicans’ loyalties to one of the party’s biggest donors. The Restore America’s Wire Act , or RAWA, would impose a federal ban on all Internet gambling, including online state lotteries and poker.

A bill to create two casino gambling “destination resorts” in south Florida divided the Republican-controlled statehouse on Thursday, with the expansion of craps, slot machines and high-stakes gaming opposed by family-oriented tourist attractions. Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp is lobbying for the resorts, supported by many leaders in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas, where they would be built.

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Culture minister Ed Vaizey said the National Videogame Arcade celebrates video games as an important part of our everyday cultural lives Digital icons such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Donkey Kong are not celebrated in museums, but that is about to change, as the first cultural centre for video games is about to open in Nottingham. The National Videogame Arcade , which opens for the first time on Saturday, is the result of a A 2.5 million project, and will celebrate the UK’s heritage in games development, with exhibitions ranging from vintage arcade machines to experimental new projects.

The state’s take from the proceeds would shore up the HOPE Scholarship and Pre-K program with an estimated $250 million yearly from six “destination casinos.” The bill would allow the overseers of the Georgia Lottery to approve construction of up to six casinos around the state.

Virginia Beach electrician Richard M. Hawkes won a $1 million prize through the state lottery’s Casino Cash game. A Virginia Beach electrician told state lottery officials that he was “shocked” when he learned he’d won a $1 million cash prize.

One of Macau’s top casino junket operators, a Vietnamese investment group and Hong Kong property-to-jewellery conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises will team up to develop a $4 billion casino resort in Vietnam, companies involved in the project said. The resort, to be located in the central province of Quang Nam, is headed by Vietnam-based VinaCapital and will forge ahead despite a ban on gambling by Vietnamese citizens that has deterred other big international operators.

The Wisconsin Lottery said a player who bought a Badger 5 ticket at United Cooperative on West Juneau Street matched all five numbers.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson speaks at the Global Gaming Expo, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Las Vegas. In a choose-your-own-facts debate, a Sheldon Adelson-backed bill to ban online gaming got its first airing in Congress with a controversial hearing Wednesday.

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That’s where billionaire Elaine Wynn is aggressively fighting to be re-elected to the board seat and maintain influence over the gambling empire she co-founded with her ex-husband 13 years ago. But Wynn Resorts directors want to kick Elaine Wynn off the company’s board when her term expires in April.

Wynn Resorts Ltd. co-founder Elaine Wynn Wednesday denied the casino operator’s accusations of improper activity and sought shareholders’ support to keep her board seat. Ms. Wynn, the company’s third-largest shareholder, said in a letter to shareholders that the board “has repeatedly presented a number of insinuations that are without factual basis” and that it was going to “reckless lengths” to exclude her as a director.

The groundbreaking was largely symbolic. MGM still needs state approval to demolish a historic school building to start the first phase of the project: building a 3,600-space parking garage.

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