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The therapist said Michelle Young told her that someone had forced himself upon her sexually during college, and though she had been able to have intimacy with other boyfriends since then, her sexual experiences with her husband lacked intimacy.

Michelle Young cried often during that session, the therapist said, echoing an observation that Linda Fisher, the mother of Michelle Young noted a month before her death.

I distinctively remember that I was downstairs, and she had her head in my lap, and I was stroking her hair, Fisher said today during the retrial of Young. I just felt like she was totally void of life.

Jason Young is accused of killing his wife in the early...

Published February 10, 2012, 12:00 AM

As others see it: Gambling revenue not same as taxes
As Minnesota’s Legislature ponders the intricacies of getting a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings built, and how to pay for it, the issue of increasing gambling revenues keeps coming up.

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WASHINGTON — Indian tribes that have made billions of dollars from legalized gambling stand the most to lose as gaming migrates to the Internet, experts told Congress on Thursday.

So much so, some said, that lawmakers should consider forms of protection for tribes, perhaps even compensation for lost revenue they have come to count on to sustain themselves and provide services on their reservations.

The discussion before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee shed light on an emerging issue as Congress and states consider legalizing and regulating online poker. Indian tribes brought in $26.48 billion from brick and mortar casinos and bingo halls in 2009.

Many tribes...

Partners with NVPR to help produce and promote event

San Francisco (PRWEB) February 10, 2012

GiGse announced today the addition of Start-Up Launchpad at the iGaming conference to be held in San Francisco, CA, on April 24th-26th, 2012. The event aims to spotlight innovative and disruptive start-ups that blend the very best from the worlds of gambling and social gaming.The 12th Global iGaming Summit amp; Expo (GiGse) will also explore how the gambling industry can better prepare itself for the emergence of the regulated iGaming developments in North America.

The recent $500 million acquisition of social game developer DoubleDown Interactive and its flagship title DoubleDown...

(AP) FRANKFORT, Ky. — A coalition of business, labor and education groups pressed state lawmakers Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment that, if ratified by voters, would legalize casinos in Kentucky.

We have a very simple goal — let the people decide how to handle this issue of casino gaming, said David Adkisson, president of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Year after year, our members overwhelmingly support expanded gaming and the citizens right to vote. We believe it is time to finally put the issue on the ballot.

Despite a long history of wagering on horse races, Kentuckys constitution frowns on casino-style gambling. And, in the Bible-belt state, many...

Why did President Obama double up on double down?

The Monitors language columnist takes issue with President Obamas use of a gambling idiom in his State of the Union message.

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Ruth Walker /
February 10, 2012