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Panel decides to keep video gambling - 2004-02-12
A project to repeal video gambling was disallowed Wednesday by a South Dakota House committee.
The State Affairs Committee voted 9-4 to kill the bill after foes noted that voters statewide have three times rejected to omit video lottery.

The state and video lottery businesses share the money players lose in the machines, which feature poker, blackjack, keno and bingo games. The amount of player losses were $212.2 million in the budget year concluding last June, so the state and businesses received $106.1 million each.
Read the full story at Aberdeen American News, SD

DA office investigator taken into custody over bribery - 2004-02-12
An expert investigator with the Clark County district attorney's office was taken into custody on suspicion of bribery Wednesday once authorities claimed he offered to suppress a woman's warrants as a trade for sex.

However, Wednesday's arrest was not Baldonado's only brush with the law.
Two decades ago, in 1983, Baldonado was charged with robbing thousands of dollars from Caesars Palace, where he was employed as a floorman in a blackjack pit.
Read the full story at Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV