Inside, dozens of slot-style gaming machines lined the walls. Only one employee was present, seated behind a desk at the rear of the arcade, along with a lone customer playing slots. The employee ...

The bold advertising on the building — including mounds of gold and the word “jackpot” — left little mystery about what ...

Manatee County soon will consider a plan to crack down on the illegal strip-mall casinos that have flourished in plain sight in defiance of a state ban — and to the frustration of local law ...

Lee County Sheriff's Office in Florida has seized another 111 illegal machines as the state continues to crackdown on backroom operations.

The owner of a California arcade that was looted by a mob of vagrants ended up raiding nearby homeless camps looking for his stolen merch after the cops told him their hands were tied. Moments after ...

Second in a three-part series. Like thousands of businesses struggling through the COVID pandemic, a small Florida company called 25Midway LLC obtained a federal loan to help pay employees. Unlike ...

They light up U.S. 41 north of the airport with neon promises — flashing 7-7-7 and mounds of gold — on storefronts wrapped in dark tint. Up and down 14th Street in Bradenton, along the Manatee Avenue ...