Maryland Briefing
New Slots Bids Sought; Man Shot Fatally; Letter With Powder Sent to Court
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SLOT MACHINE GAMBLING
New Bids Advised for Rocky Gap
The operator of a state-financed resort at Rocky Gap State Park yesterday recommended a new round of bidding next spring for a slot-machine facility at the Western Maryland location.
The site was the only one of five that emerged without a potential qualified operator during an initial round of bidding conducted by the state in February.
Yesterday, Robert C. Brennan, executive director of the Maryland Economic Development Corp., a state-backed entity that financed the Rocky Gap lodge, recommended a new round of bidding next year. That, he said, would give the legislature a chance to increase the percentage of proceeds kept by a company that operates the slots facility, perhaps enticing more bidders.
Brennan made his suggestion to a state panel that will award licenses to Maryland's five slots operators. The panel, which is seeking to award licenses at the other four locations by fall, took no action yesterday on the recommendation.
-- John Wagner
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
Man Fatally Shot Near Hotel
A 37-year-old man was fatally shot Tuesday in the parking lot of a hotel near FedEx Field, Prince George's County police said.
Grady Calvin E. Hawkins Jr. was found after 10 p.m. in the 9100 block of Basil Court in Largo. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
According to police, Hawkins and another man had argued in the bar at the Radisson, and Hawkins was found in the hotel parking lot a few minutes later. He had been shot multiple times.
