Online Casino Buys Ghost Cane for $65K
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INDIANAPOLIS - An online casino offered $65,000 Monday for a metal walking cane that an Indiana woman put up for sale in hopes her son would believe his grandfather's ghost would leave their house with it.
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An online casino won the eBay bidding for  a decade-old cheese sandwich bearing what some people consider  a likeness of the Virgin Mary and immediately began hawking  Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese T-shirts.
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TORONTO -- A Canadian student dubbed the "wave rat" for offering the domain name "tsunamirelief.com" for $50,000 on the online auction site eBay has sold it and donated the money to relief efforts, the gaming company that bought it said yesterday. Josh Kaplan, 20, branded a "wave rat" by the New York Post, which suggested he was trying to profit ...
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Charles Schwab Corp. on Monday said its brokerage unit will cut its base online stock-trading fee to $19.95 from $29.95, starting Nov. 1. The price cut could reduce revenue by 2 percent for the next 12 months
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The world's largest gambling firm, Harrah's Entertainment, is offering $530 million to buy London Clubs International, a British casino operator.
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Harrah's Entertainment Inc. ,  the world's biggest casino operator, on Monday said it has  received a $15 billion buyout offer from private equity firms  Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group. .
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A grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary has been sold for $28 000 (R168 000) in an eBay auction, according to the online casino that bought it from a woman in Hollywood, Florida.
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â¢ Colorado Springs-based Century Casinos Inc. said third- quarter profits rose 35 percent to $1.23 million, or 9 cents a share, from $914,000, or 7 cents a share, in the year-ago period.
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Hollywood, Fla, Nov. 25 - GoldenPalace online casino paid over US$28,000 yesterday to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially-eaten grilled cheese sandwich believed to carry the image of the Virgin Mary.
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An online casino paid $28,000 (euro21,300) Wednesday to the owner of a 10-year-old, partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to be embedded with the image of the Virgin Mary - and then sent the &quot;religious icon&#39;&#39; on a world tour.
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Harrah&#39;s Tunica Casino &amp; Hotel and Bally&#39;s Casino Tunica will be sold to an affiliate of Colony Capital as part of a four-hotel deal valued at $1.
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The board of the world's largest  casino operator, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. , has  accepted a $17.1 billion buyout bid from private equity groups  Apollo Management and Texas Pacific Group .
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By Anonymous  BILOXI - Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. has made public its final construction plans for the Isle of Capri Biloxi Casino Resort. The more than $180-million construction project will be largely funded by insurance proceeds associated with Hurricane Katrina.
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Seafood chain Landry's Restaurants Inc.  LNY.N said on Friday it would jump into the gambling business  with the purchase of the storied Golden Nugget Casino in Las  Vegas for $140 million.
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Rolling the dice at a craps table or wagering a paycheck playing poker may not be the most rational use of money, but one casino operator is hoping investors will find its stock a better bet.
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The Internet unit of Major League  Baseball on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement to buy  online ticket seller Tickets.com Inc. in a deal valued at about  $66 million.
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Boyd Gaming (BYD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has acquired 13 acres adjacent to the southwest side of its Stardust Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, the casino operator said in a regulatory filing.