gambling

A new report finds that states with legalized sports betting aren't doing enough to protect people from gambling trouble.

Despite slow progress, casino empire Las Vegas Sands promised to continue investing in candidates who support bringing destination resort casinos to Texas.

Kansas has been trying to sway the region's NFL and MLB teams to cross the border. Lawmakers in both Kansas and Missouri have lobbed tax incentives and construction fund packages at the teams.

Las Vegas Sands Corporation, owned by Miriam Adelson, tried to lobby at the legislature this year to make casinos legal in the Lone Star State.

Recent raids of cockfighting rings in Texas – including two busts last weekend that led to dozens of arrests – have animal welfare groups pressing for new laws that would ban the shipping birds used in these fights over regular mail.

A bill allowing sports betting in Oklahoma is dead for this legislative session.

The first few weeks of legal sports betting saw high interest from people in Kansas but decades ago, placing a bet involved a whole network of shady characters.

Kansas legalized wagering on sports just in time for football season. At Hollywood Casino in Kansas City, Kansas, fans filled the sportsbook room eager to place bets.

The new legal gambling starts Sept. 1 through casinos and online apps.

The new tax on casino profits brought on by Proposition DD would start to fund some water conservation projects in Colorado.