HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today announced that it will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 to consider the HSP Gaming, L.P. (SugarHouse Casino) requests for additional time to make slot machines available to play and to make modifications to its approved development plan.

The Board meeting is open to the public and will begin at 11:00 am in the State Museum Auditorium, located at 300 North Street in Harrisburg. The hearing on the SurgarHouse Petition will take place following the Board meeting.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that it has moved the start time for the Wednesday, April 22, 2009 board meeting to 10:00 a.m.

The meeting, which had previously been scheduled for an 11:00 a.m. start, will be at the same location, PUC Hearing Room One in the Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Harrisburg.

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HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board issued the following statement on today’s announcement by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward Marsico that perjury charges against Louis A. DeNaples, principle licensee of Mt. Airy Casino Resort, have been dropped:

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today awarded one of two available slot operator licenses for a Category 3 resort to Valley Forge Convention Center Partners, L.P. The license is the twelfth of fourteen available slot machine licenses awarded by the Board and the first awarded since December 2006. The license will permit Valley Forge to operate up to 500 slot machines at is location in Montgomery County.

HARRISBURG: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced today that it has moved the start time for the Wednesday, April 8, 2009 board meeting to 9:30 a.m.

The meeting, which had previously been scheduled for an 11:00 a.m. start, will be at the same location, the State Museum Auditorium at 303 North Street in Harrisburg.

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HARRISBURG, PA: Slot machine play during March 2009 generated more than $155 million in revenues during the recently completed month of March, a 9.4% increase over March of 2008.

The revenue figures and month-over-month comparison for the Commonwealth’s seven operating casinos were released today by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and are based on information received from the Department of Revenue.

HARRISBURG, PA: A casino operator and a vendor were fined a total of $29,000 today by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board for separate violations.

The larger of the fines, $24,000, was levied against Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment, Inc. operators of Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack in Bensalem, for two separate instance of allowing underage gambling to occur. The Pennsylvania Racehorse Development and Gaming Act forbids slot machine gambling by individuals under the age of 21.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today requested that representatives of the two holders of Philadelphia slot machine licenses appear before the Board at its April 8, 2009 public meeting and provide a full and complete update on the status of their projects.

Board Chair Mary DiGiacomo Colins says representatives of HSP Gaming, LP (SugarHouse Casino) and Philadelphia Entertainment & Development Partners, LP (Foxwoods Casino) will be given the opportunity to not only make a presentation but also answer questions from the Board.

HARRISBURG, PA: The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board issued the following statement on today’s announcement by Cannery Casino Resorts, owner of The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Washington County, and Australian-based Crown Limited to terminate its planned merger:

HARRISBURG, PA: Pennsylvania’s seven operating slots casinos were employing nearly 6,000 persons at the close of 2008 and demonstrating substantial effort and commitment toward promoting diversity within that number.

That is among the many conclusions contained in the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board’s “2008 Gaming Diversity Report”, released today and available on the Board’s web site.