Addictions

One million dollars may seem like a lot of money until you realize it’s less than 1 percent of what you could have had. It

Circuit Judge Tom Young continually has passed restraining orders against the Govenor’s Task Force on Illegal Gambling, refusing to follow the Supreme Court’s earlier orders

Amendment 744 ratified (2004) The operation of bingo games for prizes or money by nonprofit organizations for charitable, educational, or other lawful purposes shall be

Macon County was not first in Alabama to pass a constitutional amendment allowing bingo gambling. Actually it was dead last. But once the amendment was

• Dog racing was legalized in Macon, Greene, Jefferson and Mobile counties in the 1970s. • VictoryLand was built in Shorter in Macon County in

By Sondra Washington and Jennifer Davis Rash Bingo may be considered a big-money game in Alabama today, but it didn’t start out that way. Experts

By Sondra Washington Alabama courts have become the last stand for the state’s slot machine gambling industry commonly called electronic bingo. Since Gov. Bob Riley