Just like in a casino, there are no clocks in Fish the Net Sweepstakes café, but you didn’t need one to tell that time was running out. With the sweepstakes game ban looming, a sign on the front door ...

The internet doesn't work at the internet cafés. Patrons don't mind, as few enter seeking to browse the web. These cafés are instead electronic gaming rooms, with the look and sound of small casinos.

City Council will hold a public hearing during Tuesday night's council meeting to allow two - one in the Denbigh Village Shopping Center and one in Bayberry Shopping Center. Triple S Internet cafe is ...

Efforts to limit internet sweepstakes casinos and non-tribal phone sports betting in Florida were thwarted this week when two draft bills were set aside indefinitely and removed from the legislative ...

CASPER, Wyo. — Every morning, D.R. ‘‘Doc'' Carson makes his way to this city's newest Internet cafe and pulls up a chair in front of a terminal. He skips the keyboard, choosing instead to use the ...

The state House is moving forward on a bill that would ban computer-based sweepstakes games sprouting up at hundreds of Internet cafes and business centers in North Carolina. House Speaker Joe Hackney ...

The computer-based sweepstakes games at hundreds of Internet cafes, business service centers and other places throughout North Carolina are officially on their way out. Gov. Bev Perdue signed a bill ...

THOMASVILLE — No new Internet sweepstakes businesses will be coming to town for at least 60 days, following a 6-1 vote Monday night by the Thomasville City Council to have a moratorium on those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet doesn’t work at the internet cafés. Patrons don’t mind, as few enter seeking to browse the web. These cafés are ...

Illegal gaming cafes operate as cash-only sweepstakes halls with tight security. Operators tweak games and exploit zoning gaps to evade gambling regulations. Municipal enforcement yields fines and ...