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Pennsylvania has an estimated 70,000 skill-game machines, nearly three times the roughly 25,000 regulated slots in casinos.

The case comes after years of legal challenges over Skill Game machines, which have proliferated across the Commonwealth and ...

HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — In recent years, PA Skill Games have been popping up across the Commonwealth. On Wednesday night, many advocates for those games rallied at the Hershey Italian Lodge in support ...

Skill games are coming under fire once again in Pennsylvania. This time, it’s Pennsylvania State Senator Gene Yaw who will be introducing a new piece of legislation aimed at regulating and taxing ...

TAYLOR. ROUGHLY 100 PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE HERSHEY ITALIAN LODGE, ALL IN SUPPORT OF PENNSYLVANIA SKILL GAMES. MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE BEING SMALL BUSINESSES. ONE OF THEM, HOUSE OF PIZZA, THAT SAYS THESE ...

Later this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments to decide whether so-called skill games are illegal — the ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Nearly everyone at the Pennsylvania State Capitol agrees so-called skill games need to be taxed and regulated. The agreement ends on exactly how to do that. Skill games are ...

Over the course of two days, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments for 20 matters, including whether or not “skill games” should be legal and if an insurance company must cover those ...

House Gaming Oversight Committee Chairman Pat Harkins provides an update on the budget and whether to regulate skill games or not. The Pennsylvania state budget is now over 100 days overdue and both ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Note: The video is from February 2024. Two Pennsylvania lawmakers on Monday introduced bipartisan legislation designed to regulate skill games in the Commonwealth and crack down on ...

The highest-ranking Republican in the state Senate described the looming service cuts and fare hikes at Pennsylvania’s largest transit agency as a “manufactured crisis” that doesn’t need to happen.