A perfect storm of rising gas prices, summer doldrums and perhaps casino gambling is hitting midstate bingo, with dwindling attendance at the fund-raising games held by volunteer fire companies and ...

It's still your grandmother's game. But the cry of "bingo!" today has no one thinking of small change. Nearly two dozen area charitable organizations raked in more than $2 million each at bingo games ...

East Bay charities that operate electronic gaming machines to lift their bingo parlor profits fear a sudden state crackdown this week on some games in Sacramento could spread — and slash a major ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Robert King remembers the bingo heyday in the early 1990s when individual Colorado nonprofits generated $100,000 annually holding no more than three sessions ...

Background: Some charities have come to rely on income from legally suspect bingo machines, slot machinelike devices that could violate monopoly guarantees in the state’s Indian gaming agreements.

San Jose’s great bingo controversy is over. By pledging a “zero tolerance” vow against cheating, bingo volunteers at the city’s nine senior centers can now work – and play – games on the same day, ...

The beauty of bingo at the local VFW Hall is its simplicity. The problem of bingo on television is that suddenly it’s not so simple anymore. Game Show Network’s “Bingo America,” a nightly show that ...

Bingo in Greene County creates jobs and generates money for schools, fire protection, libraries and social service programs. Residents there are understandably protective of Greenetrack, which has an ...

LITTLE ROCK — Bingo supporters, mostly from veterans groups in the Fort Smith area facing competition from Oklahoma bingo and casinos, demanded Wednesday that the state stop taxing and regulating the ...