This Sept. 9, 2018 photo shows football fans watching the action on wall-mounted video screens in the sports betting lounge at the Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. A report released Feb. 2, 2021 by the American Gaming Association predicts fewer Americans will bet on this year’s Super Bowl, a decrease driven largely by […]
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Atlantic City Casino to Train Minority Youths as Workers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Dominick White has a bleak but clear-eyed view of his Atlantic City home in a public housing project known for crime and drugs. “I grew up in a bad neighborhood,” he said. “I’m trying to beat the odds and get away, and not become a statistic.” This Wednesday, Dec. 13, […]
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DC, Tennessee Win First Night Miss America Preliminaries
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss District of Columbia and Miss Tennessee won the first night of preliminaries in the Miss America competition Tuesday. In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 photograph, Miss District of Columbia, Cierra Jackson is introduced during Miss America Pageant arrival ceremonies in Atlantic City. Jackson, never missed a day of school […]
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Owners of Atlantic City’s Trump Plaza Casino Expect it Will Close
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s crumbling casino market disintegrated even further Saturday as the owners of the Trump Plaza casino said they expect to shut down in mid-September. Trump Entertainment Resorts told The Associated Press that no final decision has been made on the Boardwalk casino. But the company said it expects the […]
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Tracy Morgan in Intensive Care after 6 Car Crash
(Update-2- 5/7/2014) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured Saturday after a tractor-trailer rammed into his chauffeured limousine bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash that left one member of his entourage dead and two others seriously hurt, authorities said. A truck driver from Georgia was charged with death by […]
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Ravens RB Ray Rice in N.J. Courthouse on Assault Charge
MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice said he was a happily married father as he arrived Thursday at a New Jersey courthouse to face assault charges stemming from an incident with his then-girlfriend in an Atlantic City casino elevator. Rice, a former Rutgers star, walked to the courthouse holding hands […]
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Mom Says She Was Also Target in N.J. Tot Creek Death
FREEHOLD, N.J. — A man accused of fatally throwing his 2-year-old daughter, still strapped in her car seat and tied to a car jack, into a New Jersey creek said he planned for the girl’s mother to accompany him the night the little girl died, according to a letter read March 13 at his trial. […]