Republican Rep. Joe Barton re-introduced legislation Thursday that would legalize online poker in states that choose to play. It would set up a system rooted in the Department of Commerce and carried out by individual states to license and regulate game sponsors.
Herbst family-owned JETT Gaming will take over the Searchlight Nugget next week after the Nevada Gaming Commission Thursday signed off on the purchase of the historic gaming site in tiny Searchlight.
Legislation that would reimpose a ban on legalized gambling over the Internet was introduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate.
