Many Internet cafes that have popped up in suburban strip malls and gas stations offer something more than coffee and access to the Web and email. Known as Internet sweepstakes cafes, they sell time ...

As Internet sweepstakes businesses continue to proliferate across Ohio, Butler County jurisdictions — concerned the locations will become havens for crime if left unchecked — are taking steps to ...

Several sweepstakes operators that did not use VS2 subsequently sought the restraining order to allow their businesses to reopen. Attorneys argued the businesses were selling legitimate products such ...

Gourash declined to discuss the motion. Assistant County Prosecutor Paul Soucie said the county is preparing its response. He said that while the majority of sweepstakes cafes in Cuyahoga County have ...

An opinion from Attorney General Jack Conway's office says so-called Internet sweepstakes games — where patrons buy Internet time to participate in a drawing — are a form of illegal gambling.

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TAMPA — A lawyer for four Internet sweepstakes cafes says his clients plan to drop a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Hillsborough County ordinance banning operation of simulated ...

BURTON, MI – An Internet sweepstakes cafe in Burton has shut down following a court ruling in favor of the state's Attorney General to end alleged illegal gaming operations at the facility. The ...

reporting from San Francisco — Computerized “sweepstakes” games that have been available in some Internet cafés in California are illegal under state gambling law, the California Supreme Court ruled ...