Sue Dooley is the senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, which oversees Powerball. She says there will be another drawing Saturday after no one matched Wednesday’s winning numbers.

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and CEO of the popular games company Valve Corporation, is arguably the most popular executive in the gaming industry. Valve makes the Steam network for distributing its massive library of online games, but one Steam customer said he sent his issue to the company’s support line but got no response for a week.

For better or worse, Nevada is synonymous with sex. According to a University of Nevada, Las Vegas study, there are more than 100,000 people employed in the industry in Las Vegas alone.

Got dreams of quitting the rat race and retiring to a tropical island or a remote mountaintop? If you’re the winner of the next Powerball lottery – and that’s a big if -you’ll take home $317 million. Here are the cold hard facts: Your odds of winning are 1 in 175,223,510, according to the folks at the Virginia Lottery.

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Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are reporting brisk ticket sales for tonight’s $317 million PowerballA drawing, featuring the game’s largest jackpot offering in nearly a year. The cash prize is worth $220.6 million.

Sparling, which employs 130 people in Portland and two other locations, is now the property of the design firm Stantec . Sparling specializes in technology, wireless, audiovisual, lighting and acoustic design.

Wisconsin Lottery said Verlyn Adamson bought the tickets at Kwik Trip on West Mineral Point Road in Verona, Kwik Trip on Springdale Street in Mount Horeb and Cenex on Highway 18/151 in Mount Horeb. After taxes, Adamson received a payment of $707,175.

The Powerball jackpot for Wednesday’s drawing is expected to be 317 million dollars, and the Michigan Lottery is preparing for sales to start quickly climbing. Spokesperson Jeff Holyfield says that always happens when the jackpots surpass the 200 million dollar mark: Holyfield says that the odds of winning the Powerball may be one in 175 million, but most people just play for the fun of imagining themselves winning.

Steve Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, speaks at a panel discussion “CEO Conversation: Past, Present and Future of Las Vegas With Steve Wynn” at the 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills,California, April 28, 2009. The company just released its fourth quarter 2014 earnings, and they were even worse than the mess analysts had pictured.

ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS ACQUIRES IDEAL PIPE OF CANADA Feb. 4, 2015 Source: Advanced Drainage Systems news release Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. , a leading global manufacturer of water management products and solutions for commercial, residential, infrastructure and agricultural applications, today announced that it has acquired Ideal Pipe of Canada, a manufacturer of HDPE pipe and related accessories for approximately $56.8 million Canadian dollars. Ideal Pipe had sales in Canadian dollars of approximately $43 million for the trailing twelve months, providing $7.8 million in EBITDA over the same period.

STEPHENVILLE, Texas – The small Erath County town of Stephenville is bracing for the trial of the man accused of murdering decorated Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield. Defendant Eddie ‘American Sniper’ murder trial puts focus on small town STEPHENVILLE, Texas – The small Erath County town of Stephenville is bracing for the trial of the man accused of murdering decorated Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield.

A crackdown in corruption in China that has hushed the once frenzied Macau casino business took its toll on Wynn Resorts Ltd. in the company’s fourth quarter. The company’s earnings for the quarter were off by nearly half to $109.3 million and $1.07 per share.

Marijuana use by pregnant or nursing women might seem like a no-brainer of a bad idea, but a proposal in Colorado to step up such warnings is raising concern because of limited research on the dangers. A Colorado proposal to require warning signs aimed at pregnant or nursing women at pot shops was rejected Tuesday, but the suggestion renewed debate about how to approach maternal marijuana use.

Imagine Dragons headline Night 1 of 2014 Holiday Havoc at the Joint on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, at the Hard Rock Hotel. As a temporary stage and surrounding structure is being built on Fremont Street at 6th Street, between El Cortez and Backstage Bar & Billiards, officials with the production stress that this is not a traditional public concert.

Glorywin Entertainment Group , one of the largest online casino operators in the world has announced their growth forecasts for 2015. Interactive/online gambling is one of the biggest growth drivers in the gambling industry, growing almost 400% in the past 10 years from $10.1 billion in 2004 to $39.5 billion in 2014.

Elaine Bethel Fink, center, chairwoman of the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians, stands with tribe secretary Katrina Lewis, left, and treasurer Maryann McGovran in a field near Madera where they had supported construction of a casino. Elaine Bethel Fink, center, chairwoman of the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians, stands with tribe secretary Katrina Lewis, left, and treasurer Maryann McGovran in a field near Madera where they had supported construction of a casino.