Casinos in once-poor Mississippi region face crime wave

Monday, December 8, 2003

TUNICA, Miss. -- A woman wearing a wig set the gift-wrapped package on the counter and told the casino cashier to hand over money or she would detonate the bomb hidden inside.

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