Posts Tagged Casino
Casinos May Be on the Way to Some Economically Struggling Communities in Virginia
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on May 7, 2019
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Will Virginia voters press their luck with casinos? Michael Pope has details.
A Casino Push in Bristol, Danville and Portsmouth
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on January 14, 2019
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Could casinos be the key to bringing jobs and revenue to some parts of the state? A bipartisan group of lawmakers thinks so. The effort is targeted to three Virginia localities. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.
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From NPR News- North Korea Seen Lining Up Military Aircraft For Possible Show November 14, 2019Satellite images shared exclusively with NPR show North Korean fighters and helicopters massed at a single airbase. It could be another sign of escalating tensions.
- International Criminal Court OKs Investigation Into Crimes Against Rohingya November 14, 2019It's a first step in what Rohingya victims see as their best — and perhaps only — opportunity to hold the perpetrators of these acts accountable.
- Pelosi: Impeachment Inquiry Has Yielded Evidence That Trump Engaged In 'Bribery' November 14, 2019House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlines an argument that could shape possible articles of impeachment — that withholding military assistance for political investigations amounts to bribery.
- 'I Am Happy Because I Survived': Refugee Writer Is Free After Years In Detention November 14, 2019Behrouz Boochani won Australia's richest literary prize earlier this year — but the asylum-seeker, detained offshore, couldn't accept in person. Now, he has made it to New Zealand with a message.
- Sri Lanka's Front-Runner Strikes Fear Among Tamils Who Blame Him For Disappearances November 14, 2019Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the civil war-era defense secretary, is considered a hero to many majority Buddhists but the prospect of his winning Saturday's presidential election terrifies some minorities.
- North Korea Seen Lining Up Military Aircraft For Possible Show November 14, 2019
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- Hospital waiting times at worst-ever level November 14, 2019Record numbers in England are on hospital waiting lists, while A&E delays highest since target introduced.
- General election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn rules out 'arbitrary' immigration target November 14, 2019The Labour leader will not say whether he wants the number of people coming into the UK to rise or fall.
- Alfie Lamb car seat death: Man jailed for crushing boy to death November 14, 2019"Manipulative" Stephen Waterson will serve more than seven years after he crushed the three-year-old.
- 'Boeing was at my father's funeral and I was not' November 14, 2019Few victims' families were able to attend the covering over of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site.
- Nasa probes oxygen mystery on Mars November 14, 2019The oxygen in Martian air is changing in a way that can't currently be explained by known chemical processes.
- Hospital waiting times at worst-ever level November 14, 2019
