Rainier died at the age of 81 after a month in hospital with severe breathing and heart problems.
The funeral is to take place in Monaco's 19th century cathedral at midday and be broadcast on television screens at the six other churches in the principality.
"Several high-ranking foreign and local personalities are to attend," the official statement said.
After the service, his body will be interred in the crypt next to his wife, Grace Kelly, who died in a car crash in 1982.
One of the largest mergers in gambling history has presented Chicago's Pritzker family the opportunity to take control of Elgin's Grand Victoria Casino.
If MGM Mirage gets the OK this summer to buy Mandalay Resort Group's interests, which include the Grand Victoria, the Pritzkers could take over the casino's day-to-day operations.
Mandalay and the Pritzkers' Hyatt Gaming Management Inc. each own half the casino.
A pigeon lover who won Germany's biggest ever lottery win is planning to build the world's largest pigeon loft.
The unnamed man won more than £14 million.
The winner was described by lottery officials in Muenster as an outdoors lover, a football fan and father of two.
The man said that the first thing he would do is buy a remote house in the countryside where he can build his giant pigeon loft and breed pigeons without disturbing the neighbours.
As reported by the Ohio News-Messenger: "Cedar Point and Put-in-Bay officials are responsive to hosting casinos if the state Legislature legalizes gambling later this year.
"Put-in-Bay Trustee Matt Miller said the gaming initiative undoubtedly will raise 'debate on both sides of the issue' from South Bass Island's 440 year-round residents. But before developers think about building a casino on the island, they should consider a major logistical problem -- transportation.
On Bravo, it's "Celebrity Poker Showdown." On ESPN, it's "The World Series of Poker." On compulsive-gambling help lines, the real stakes emerge.
Now a New Jersey lawmaker wants cable networks that feature gambling to help gambling addicts by giving money to treatment agencies. Assemblywoman Joan Voss, a Democrat, on Tuesday called for a surcharge on state cable providers if the networks don't cooperate.
It took less than six months from the date Pennsylvania legalized the expansion of slot machine gambling last year for state prosecutors to bring their first slots-related indictment.
The mayor of Erie was accused of trying to enrich himself through a land deal at a proposed gambling site. He was charged with criminal conspiracy, conflict of interest and other corruption-related counts.
Naturally, Maryland's slots advocates will gloss over that and other signs of sleaze oozing to the surface in Pennsylvania.
GAMBLING giant Tabcorp says a $S2 billion ($1.55 billion) tender to develop and run a casino complex in Singapore would affect earnings in three to four years' time.
Tabcorp is vying with the likes of Kerry Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting to operate one, or possibly two, of the first casinos in Singapore.
The Singapore Government has invited concept plans for an integrated entertainment resort project to be build on the island of Sentosa or in the Marina Bayfront near the CBD, or both.
ATLANTIC CITY - A woman was robbed in a casino´s self-park garage Sunday afternoon, police said Tuesday.
Helen Ellis, 65, of Matawan, Monmouth County, told police she parked her car on the fourth level of the Caesars Atlantic City garage and was attacked by a man. She said the suspect sprayed some type of irritant into her face and mouth and took her pocketbook, which contained an unknown amount of cash, identification and a cellular phone.
Ellis was not seriously injured in the incident, police said.
Gov. Tom Vilsack rolled out a nearly $5 billion state budget plan Tuesday that triples the cigarette tax to pay for health care priorities, pumps more money into Iowa classrooms and envisions a massive economic growth effort.
Vilsack, a Democrat, would raise Iowa´s current 36-cent per pack cigarette tax by 80 cents as of April 1, raising an additional $123 million annually. Much of that new money would be spent on health care for the poor, elderly and disabled enrolled in the cash-strapped Medicaid program.
It will take a "billion dollar baby" like the spectacular Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort that opened in Niagara Falls last June for Windsor to continue to compete with the Detroit casinos, say gaming analysts.
"If Detroit has billion dollar babies, that is what you need, too," said Ivan Sack, editor and publisher of Canadian Gaming News. "You need a new MGM."
Premier D. McGuinty is expected to come to Windsor to announce a development on vacant land west of Casino Windsor.
