SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield Board of Zoning Appeals agreed Monday, June 21, to allow an Internet cafe and game room to open. The board approved a conditional use permit request for Jim Haning of ...

Christie Dickison is all smiles behind the counter at Power Play Cyber Cafe in Eastlake. Dickison, a resident of Painesville, manages the Internet sweepstakes cafe that opened three weeks ago in ...

Internet cafes that offer sweepstakes games are growing in popularity nationally and locally, stirring a debate about whether they amount to casino-style gambling or are legitimate businesses luring ...

BEREA — The city, like others in the area, has proposed rules for entertainment hubs known as sweepstakes terminal cafes. Customers at such businesses pay to play online computer games, some of which ...

Computerized "sweepstakes'' games offered at special Internet cafes are the equivalent of slot machines and therefore illegal under state law, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – By an overwhelming vote, the Florida House passed a measure Thursday which would ban so called 'internet café games'. "We've got a cancer in Florida, and it's growing, and ...

CASPER, WYO. - Every morning, D.R. "Doc" Carson makes his way to this city's newest Internet cafe and pulls up a chair in front of a terminal. He skips the keyboard, choosing instead to use the ...

The Ohio General Assembly has begun deliberating how the state should regulate sweepstakes games, a move that could give legitimacy to this controversial but burgeoning industry. How many sweepstakes ...

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 ...

A woman in China who was playing a game at an internet cafe suddenly had a baby and went right back to playing that game. Want to make people feel like they're on a hidden camera show? Have a baby on ...