Topic: Gambling

Mega Millions fever took over the nation today, including Twitter, where users shared their thoughts on how they’d spend the $640 million jackpot in 140 characters or less.  Here are a few of our favorites.

Some celebrities fell out of good standing with the IRS, and paid dearly for it. Read ahead to see some of the celebrities who just couldn’t get that return finished on time, or just didn't think they had to pay what they owed.

It was once the unspoiled jungle home for tigers, elephants, bears and gibbons. But today Botum Sakor National Park in southwest Cambodia is fast disappearing to accommodate a much less endangered species: the Chinese gambler.

Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign, The New York Times reports.

If you want to bet legally on the outcome of Super Bowl, then you better live in Nevada, Delaware, Montana or Oregon.

There are now some 350 betting lines, or propositions, on smaller outcomes or scenarios in the Super Bowl, including which player scores first, accounting for half of all money wagered on the game in Las Vegas.

In the year of the Black Water Dragon, investors could get torched again if they leap back into the market too soon.