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Police: Man accused of punching Rick Moranis attacked others

(AP) — Prosecutors say prosecutors said Marquis Moranis in the face on Oct. 1 tion for Ventura. his medication, the newspa-
the man accused of punch- Ventura, 35, is charged in five in what police called a “ran- per reported.
ing actor Rick Moranis is a assaults on strangers that took dom, unprovoked assault.” An attorney for Ventura, Au-
suspect in multiple other place in the last six months, Moranis is well known for his tumn Levine, said he has a Ventura was arrested Satur-
unprovoked attacks on the New York Post reported. roles in movies like “Ghost- diagnosis of schizophrenia, day but the charges naming
people in New York City. busters,” “Spaceballs” and a serious mental illness, and him as a suspect in other as-
Ventura allegedly attacked “Honey I Shrunk the Kids.” has previously been in in- saults were not known until
At a Manhattan Criminal the owner of a liquor store in Judge Nicholas Moyne or- patient mental health treat- yesterday’s hearing.
Court hearing on Sunday, Soho hours after he punched dered a psychiatric examina- ment. She said he was not on

Texas man sentenced for death of 2 Kansas carnival vendors

(AP) — A Texas man has deaths of Alfred and Pauline Mike Keeley on Friday also
been sentenced to life in Carpenter, who were work- sentenced Christine Ten-
prison for his role in the ing as vendors at the Barton ney, 40, of La Marque, Texas,
slayings of a Kansas cou- County, Kansas, fair. to 59 months for aggravated
ple who were killed after Prosecutors said the Carpen- robbery and eight months for
a carnival worker ordered ters were killed at the fair and obstructing apprehension for
their deaths as part of a their bodies were taken to her role in the deaths.
fictitious carnival mafia. Arkansas, where they were
buried in a national forest Michael Fowler Jr., 56, of
Rusty Frasier, 37, of Aransas near Van Buren, Arkansas. Sarasota, Florida, was pre-
Pass, Texas, was sentenced Investigators said one suspect viously sentenced to life in
Friday to life without parole posed as a carnival mafia boss prison without the possibil-
for 50 years on each of two and ordered the other sus- ity of parole for 100 years.
counts of first-degree mur- pects to kill the couple. Police Kimberly Younger, of McIn-
der. have said the “carnival mafia” tosh, Florida, has pleaded not
does not exist. guilty to several charges, in-
He is one of several people cluding capital murder, in the
charged in the July 2018 Barton County District Judge Carpenters’ deaths.

US casinos recovering from virus, but challenges remain

(AP) — America’s casi-
nos are recovering from
months of closures neces-
sitated by the coronavirus
outbreak, having regained
81% of the gambling rev-
enue they saw in the third
quarter of last year, the
casinos’ trade association
said Monday.

But that recovery is threat-
ened in places as the virus
continues to surge through-
out the country. Sunday
night, Michigan’s governor
ordered numerous business-
es including casinos to shut
down for three weeks, and
Atlantic City’s top casino last
week laid off or cut the hours
of 422 workers in response to
restrictions imposed by New
Jersey’s governor.

Also on Sunday, Washing- which is 81% of the amount it Our industry continues to sorts International, said the with 902 commercial and
ton’s governor also banned won during the same period prioritize the health and safe- industry continues to deal tribal casinos operational by
indoor service at restaurants a year earlier, when there was ty of our employees, custom- with the pandemic, and has the end of the third quarter.
and bars. no virus and casinos were op- ers, and communities above been forced to abide by re- Five states actually won more
The American Gaming As- erating normally. Virtually all all else,” said Bill Miller, the strictions. in the third quarter this year
sociation released a report casinos in the U.S. are oper- association’s president and than they did in the same pe-
on gambling revenue at the ating with some restrictions CEO. “While these quarterly But he also said September riod last year: Arkansas, up
nation’s casinos during the on the amount of people they results are promising, the re- “was an exceptional booking 3%; Mississippi, up 2.8%;
third quarter of this year — can accommodate and the ality is a full recovery is de- month for the future. It’s the Ohio, up 7.5%; Pennsylvania,
the time when most casinos type of operations they can pendent on continued public best booking months we’ve up 3.8%; and South Dakota,
reopened after four months conduct amid the pandemic. health measures to control had in seven. And so I think up 6.1%.
or more of being shuttered prevalence rates” of the virus. the tell is is that people are
during the first wave of the The report found that na- still booking into the future.” Revenue from slot machines
virus outbreak.
tionwide gambling revenue is In a recent conference call to was $5.87 billion for the
down 36.5% in the first nine discuss third-quarter earn- The report said more than quarter, down 19.3%, and ta-
It found that the industry months of 2020 compared to ings, Bill Hornbuckle, presi- 100 casinos reopened be- ble games revenue was $1.57
won over $9 billion in the the same period in 2019. dent and CEO of MGM Re- tween July and September billion, down 31.2%.
third quarter of this year,