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 ...

DeWine said that because the cafes are not regulated under Ohio law like casinos and racinos, there is no way to keep track of who profits from them, where the money goes and any criminal activity ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Cease and desist letters have been issued to nine additional Internet Sweepstakes cafe -- including two locations in Genesee County -- from state Attorney General Bill Schuette.

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 ...

Police issued arrest warrants in March for two people connected to an alleged internet sweepstakes café in Bloomfield, police confirmed. Gardner Payne and Susanne Barham face pending charges of ...

Just when you thought Internet sweepstakes was dead this session, House Bill 80, which would ban them, is scheduled to be voted on in the Senate Monday night. Here’s the text of the bill: ...

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 ...