The New York State Racing and Wagering Board on Thursday revoked the charitable gaming licenses of the Syracuse Brigadiers for a year, shutting down the multimillion-dollar bingo operation that supports a drum and bugle corps with five national championships over the past eight years.

The two members of the board said during their ruling in Albany they concurred with a hearing officer who concluded the Brigadiers were guilty of all 28 charges of charitable gaming rules violations brought against them.

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP -- Senior citizen Darlene Murdoch is facing hip replacement surgery this month, but that didn't stop her from zipping from table to table recently to sell pull-tab lottery tickets to bingo players.

She didn't get paid for her work. Murdoch is a volunteer at a weekly bingo game whose profits go to the athletic boosters club at L'Anse Creuse High School in Harrison Township.

"It's for a good cause," a cheerful Murdoch said. "All of my kids are over 40 now. But they have a good crew of people here, and it's to support the (high school) kids."

A mother-of-four has beaten off stiff competition to be the first female crowned Britain's best bingo caller.
Mandy Gorgan, 36, does not go in for legs 11 and other "silly lingo", saying bingo was big business and customers had to be able to concentrate.

She will be showing off her skills at a Las Vegas casino as part of her prize, after seeing off four male callers to win the title on Sunday.

Most people who play at their favorite online casino on the net generally feel pretty safe while playing and don´t consider their actions illegal in any way. But for one unfortunate online gambler, that myth was recently shattered. Jeffrey Trauman became the first and only online casino player that has been charged by the government for wagering online in the US. Some say this may have broader implications for the online casinos but others say it was an isolated incident that was blown out of proportion.

A MUM who won a whopping £102,000 on a game of bingo gave £80,000 of it away that night – including a £20,000 chunk to a virtual stranger.

Novice player Maria Watt was visiting her local bingo hall for just the third time when she hit the jackpot.

In fact, she was such a bingo beginner that she did not even realize how much she had won.