gambling news | games rules | how to win | history of games | legal page | gambling links 27.10.2004
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Could you win Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 02.07.2003
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Here are the questions Major Charles Ingram faced on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Question 1 For £100: On which would you air laundry?
  • Clothes dog
  • Clothes horse
  • Clothes rabbit
  • Clothes pig
Question 2 £200: What name is given to a person who is against increasing the powers of the European Union?
  • Eurosceptic
  • Eurostar
  • Eurotrash
  • Eurovision
Question 3 £300: What is Butterscotch?
  • Shortbread
  • A pavement game
  • A garden flower
  • Brittle toffee
Question 4 £500: Which of these is a nickname for a famous Scottish army regiment?
  • Black Cat
  • Black Widow
  • Black Sea
  • Black Watch
Question 5 £1,000: The Normans who invaded and conquered England in 1066 spoke which language?
  • German
  • Norwegian
  • French
  • Danish
Question 6 £2,000: In Coronation Street, who is Audrey's daughter?
  • Janice
  • Gail
  • Linda
  • Sally
Question 7 The River Foyle is found in which part of the UK?
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Wales
Question 8 £8,000: Who was the second husband of Jacqueline Kennedy?
  • Adnan Khashoggi
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Aristotle Onassis
  • Rupert Murdoch
Question 9 £16,000: Emmenthal is a cheese from which country?
  • France
  • Italy
  • The Netherlands
  • Switzerland
Question 10 £32,000: Who had a hit UK album with Born To Do It, released in 2000?
  • Coldplay
  • Toploader
  • A1
  • Craig David
Question 11 £64,000: Gentlemen versus Players was an annual match between amateurs and professionals of which sport?
  • Lawn tennis
  • Rugby Union
  • Polo
  • Cricket
Question 12 £125,000: The Ambassadors in the National Gallery is a painting by which artist?
  • Van Eyck
  • Holbein
  • Michelangelo
  • Rembrandt
Question 13 £250,000: What type of garment is an Anthony Eden?
  • Overcoat
  • Hat
  • Shoe
  • Tie
Question 14 £500,000: Baron Haussman is best known for the planning of which city?
  • Rome
  • Paris
  • Berlin
  • Athens
Question 15 £1,000,000: A number one followed by 100 zeroes is known by what name?
  • Googol
  • Megatron
  • Gigabit
  • Nanomole

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Jack Whittaker winner of the biggest lottery jackpot burglarized 22.09.2004
 
Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday.

Whittaker was not home at the time, and Chief Deputy John Dailey said the death of Jesse Joe Tribble, 18, was not related to the burglary and was not a homicide. It may have been drug-related, Dailey said.

Judge has gambling problem, lawyer says 14.09.2004
The Associated Press 
KANSAS CITY (AP) - A Kansas City municipal judge being investigated for accepting loans from lawyers has a gambling addiction, her attorney has confirmed.

Judge Deborah Neal, 54, has been on paid leave since Aug. 16; she remains hospitalized for treatment of depression. She was among the patrons in a Kansas City, Kan., casino that was raided by authorities in April.

Dar Heatherington Avoids Jail Time 14.09.2004
 
The Lethbridge, Alberta alderwoman who faked her own stalking will serve a 20-month conditional sentence.

Dar Heatherington cried in court as she was handed the sentence for public mischief.



dar heatherington to appear in court in Great Falls on Wednesday 27.08.2004
 
LETHBRIDGE - The husband is convinced his wife did not have an affair.

Montana police offer Heatherington deal 27.08.2004
The deal: get counselling, stay out of trouble for a year. She has not ...

Lethbridge alderwoman pleads not guilty to public mischief charges 27.08.2004
Lethbridge Alderwoman Dar Heatherington did not appear in provincial court. Her defence lawyer, Tracy Hembroff, spoke on her behalf. Hembroff indicated Heatherington, 40, has opted to be tried by judge alone and has waived her right to a preliminary hearing. A 10-day trial is to begin January 26.



Stalker might be husband, Lethbridge city council alderwoman told police 27.08.2004
New wave in Dar Heatherington's case. Lethbridge, Alta. — As police hunted for the man allegedly stalking Dar Heatherington, the city alderwoman told them she thought her husband Dave might be the mystery man and so she destroyed key evidence to protect him.

That evidence included letters, sexy lingerie and a computer disk with Ms. Heatherington's face pasted on photos of a woman performing various sex acts.

Moscow. 2 Gunned Down in Slot Arcade 20.08.2004
 
Two people were killed and another was injured in an armed attack on a Moscow slot machine arcade early Thursday morning, in what has become the tenth such robbery in the city since the start of the year.

Armed men burst into the north Moscow arcade at about 6 a.m. and opened fire, the Interfax news agency reported. They killed a security guard and a customer, and seriously wounded the cashier.

U.K. Serial Rapist Wins £7 Million (US$12.8 million) Lottery Jackpot 12.08.2004
 
UNITED KINGDOM – As reported by the BBC: "A man serving a life sentence for attempted rape has won £7m (US$12.8 million) on the National Lottery.

Iorworth Hoare, the rapist, who has already been in jail for 36 years, has been moved from a low-security open prison to a high-security cell in another jail amid fears that he could be attacked by jealous prisoners.



City fast-tracks Dar Heatherington's exit from council 12.08.2004
 
Heatherington had submitted her resignation earlier this week effective Sept. 10, the day she is to be sentenced for public mischief. Heatherington was convicted of the charge in June after a court ruled she had made up a story about being stalked.

But City of Lethbridge administrators found a section of the Municipal Government Act that said Heatherington's resignation took effect the day it was tendered – meaning her role on council ended Monday.

Google and Yahoo! sued for 'illegal gambling ads' 12.08.2004
 
Some gambling ads on Google, Yahoo! and other major websites are illegal in California, according to a new lawsuit.

The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to web advertisements based on searches for terms such as "illegal gambling," "internet gambling" and "California gambling."

Police arrest 2 men in shooting death 12.08.2004
 
Milwaukee police have arrested two men in connection with a fatal shooting on the city's north side early Friday morning, police said.





Lethbridge seeks alderwoman's removal 27.07.2004
The Associated Press 
The city has hired a lawyer in its bid to remove from office an alderwoman accused of making up a story that she was abducted and raped while on business in Montana.

Mayor Bob Tarleck said the city isn't waiting to see if Dar Heatherington voluntarily resigns before it applies to court for her removal. A lawyer is "presently engaged in this case," Tarleck said.

Alta. Judge to rule whether alderwoman made up stalker
community looking forward to the finish the case of Dar Heathreington
28.06.2004
 
Heatherington, a city council member in Lethbridge, Alta., made international headlines in May 2003 after vanishing in Great Falls, Mont., sparking a frantic search that ended three days later in Las Vegas.

Charges against Canadian dropped 28.05.2004
 
Charges that Alderwoman Darlene Heatherington of Lethbridge, Alberta, lied to Great Falls police that she had been abducted were wiped clean Thursday, a year after she appeared in a Great Falls court.

The 40-year-old had signed a plea agreement that the misdemeanor charge would be dropped if she stayed out of trouble for a year and saw a psychiatrist.



State to dismiss charge against Dar Heatherington 25.05.2004
 
A charge alleging Darlene Heatherington lied to police is expected to be dismissed today in Great Falls, Mont. Ms. Heatherington made international headlines last spring when she disappeared for three days in the United States and claimed she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She later retracted her story.

Under the deal, the charge was to be dismissed if she provided proof she had seen a psychiatrist, paid court costs and stayed out of trouble for the full year.

Decline of Cuban Bolita
Feds take on Cuban 'godfather'
12.05.2004
BBC 
A former Cuban policeman, who was captured by Fidel Castro's soldiers at the Bay of Pigs, is facing trial in Florida accused of heading a multi-million dollar organised crime network known as The Corporation. But is Jose Miguel Battle Snr really El Padrino (The Godfather) or just a sick old man?

Crime bosses happy 11.05.2004
 
Crime bosses happy: By creating a demand for gambling machines and then reducing their number, the government would create a vacuum for the underworld.

VLTs generate 30 per cent of Loto-Quebec's profits but the corporation wants to reduce the number of machines in poorer areas.



Canadian LOttery Scandal
Toronto Cops suspected
21.04.2004
 
"After sitting down to gamble with mobsters in Woodbridge, several Toronto police officers found themselves 'owing large' and turned to crime to pay back their debts, the Star has been told.

…"Former street cop Rick McIntosh, who stepped down temporarily as president of the Toronto Police Association on Sunday, is among those being investigated...

Multi-million-dollar fraud ring may have penetrated government
Canadian Lottery Scandal
06.04.2004
 
Officials suspect a multimillion-dollar fraud ring may have been operating for up to 10 years in at least two federal departments - National Defence and Public Works - and possibly elsewhere, a key source told The Canadian Press on Friday.

So far, only one federal employee, civilian director Paul Champagne, has been fired after auditors discovered National Defence had paid $160 million for military computer hardware and support services it never received.

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