{"id":44187,"date":"2026-06-13T02:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/pennsylvania-proposes-blocking-gambling-sites-at-schools-to-honor-young-mans-death\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:57:51","slug":"pennsylvania-proposes-blocking-gambling-sites-at-schools-to-honor-young-mans-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/pennsylvania-proposes-blocking-gambling-sites-at-schools-to-honor-young-mans-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania proposes blocking gambling sites at schools to honor young man\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing blocking access to all sports betting and online casino platforms on school campuses.\u00a0 Representative Jason Ortitay said he intends to introduce the legislation in honor of Ray Mikesell, who killed himself after struggling with gambling addiction.\u00a0 The legislation would require igaming and sports betting operators to use geospatial technologies to prevent registered players from accessing their platforms while physically located on school property&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/pennsylvania-blocking-gambling-sites-at-schools\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers are proposing blocking access to all sports betting and online casino platforms on school campuses.\u00a0 Representative Jason Ortitay said he intends to introduce the legislation in honor of Ray Mikesell, who killed himself after struggling with gambling addiction.\u00a0 The legislation would require igaming and sports betting operators to use geospatial technologies to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}