Police may charge a California couple with neglect after they left their young children at home alone while they went to Las Vegas for the weekend. Police have not been to interview the parents of the 5- and 9-year olds because they have been delayed by bad weather, reports The Associated Press

America's finest eaters assemble at Artie's Deli in New York to participate in a 10-pound roast turkey eating contest sponsored by the gambling site GoldenPalace. com. The winner of the gorge-fest is Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, of Alexandria, Va.

Despite the law against online gambling, officials in Hawaii and five other states fail to prosecute offenders. Hawaiians have been able to wager thousands of dollars in poker tournaments and other games of chance without fear of arrest.

A mother sells her forehead as advertising space on eBay in order to pay for her son's education. Goldenpalace. com, an Internet gambling company in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake, Canada, met Smith's $10,000 asking price.

An Ontario man decides to file a class-action lawsuit against two drug manufacturers, claiming medication he took to control Parkinson's disease turned him into a compulsive gambler. Gerry Schick is asking for millions of dollars in compensation from Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim accusing the companies of "aggressively" marketing the drug Mirapex "by understating risks associated with the use of the product. "