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The Texas Treasure casino ship, seen in Port Aransas in 2007. Gambling boats have operated at times out of Texas ports, taking passengers on one-day "cruises to nowhere" in international waters, where there are no gambling laws.
The vessel operated casino cruises from Freeport, Texas in late 2001 and early 2002 then from Port Aransas, Texas, for the remainder of the 2002 season before being mothballed at Freeport, Bahamas, and placed for sale, following the failure of U.S. Coast Guard safety and U.S. government hygiene inspections.
A gambling ship is the term for a ship stationed offshore in or transiting to international waters to evade local anti-gambling laws that is dedicated to games of chance. This applies both to ships which are permanently moored somewhere outside the limits, or, when legal, that can transit back and forth from a nearby port where it is not.
Texas Ethics Commission records show the group donated $10,000 to the Texas Democratic Party and $25,000 to the Texas Republican Party in July for party convention sponsorship costs.
The Port of Galveston has a new resident. Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Jubilee ship will begin sailing from the Texas city on Saturday, marking the debut of the line’s third Excel class ...
On December 16, 2009, SunCruz Casinos was reported to be closing amid reports of owing $300,000 to the Canaveral Port Authority. [2] Parent company Ocean Casino Cruises filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy December 28. [3] At the time of the filing of bankruptcy, there were about 300 full-time and part-time employees. [4]
The Nueces County Medical Examiner's office has released the name of two people who died in a boating accident that happened over the weekend in the Port Aransas Ship Channel. The seal of the U.S ...
The Copa Casino was a casino located in Gulfport, Mississippi . Prior to its destruction in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina , it operated a small casino that catered to local residents. The casino was originally housed in a former cruise ship, the Pride of Galveston , then later on a barge built to resemble an on-shore building, but which still ...