Atlantic City News - Page 97

News Brief: Atlantic City return to its former grandeur with venues like the Borgata and the Pier at Caesars, a mall featuring Coach leather and Tiffany & Co. jewelry.

News Brief: Net revenues rose nearly 5 percent to $1.27 billion, although net income was down 74.5 percent to $98.5 million, according to figures released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.

News Brief: One former surveillance supervisor had his gaming license suspended but another was exonerated Wednesday in a case of video spying at an Atlantic City casino.

News Brief: Casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, won 4.8 percent less money from gamblers in July, when they were closed for three days, compared with a year earlier, the state's Casino Control Commission said on Thursday.

Connecticut, Delaware and Las Vegas casinos benefited from the Atlantic City casino shutdown this past July.

News Brief: Nearly a dozen anti-smoking activists came to an Atlantic City Council meeting to urge the members to support a ban on smoking in the resort's casinos.

Trump Entertainment Resorts reports that construction officially commenced in July 2006 on the new, $250 million hotel tower at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.

News Brief: Lady Luck smiled upon, and then deserted, a Philadelphia man when he won about $20,000 in a casino and then had the money stolen, police said Thursday.

Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. reports four new amenities at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort have or are scheduled to open during the month of July, 2006.

News Brief: Despite millions of dollars in lost revenue and tons of negative publicity caused by their unprecedented shutdown, the Atlantic City casinos showed once again that, ultimately, the house usually wins.

Two players at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resorts took home nearly a combined $2.3 million after winning jackpots on Wheel of Fortune slot machines in the month of June.

News Brief: Operators of a second Atlantic City casino have sued Powerball winner Jack Whittaker for allegedly writing checks from a closed bank account in West Virginia.

A New Jersey man has sued Aztar Corporation, the owner of Atlantic City's Tropicana Casino and Resort, for failing to protect him and other individuals from the dangers of secondhand smoke.

News Brief: A guilty plea by a former New York City police commissioner in a conflict-of-interest case could bolster a move by New Jersey gaming regulators to bar a construction company from doing business with Atlantic City casinos.

News Brief: With no government-imposed shutdown to worry about then, the Atlantic City casinos racked up $428.1 million in revenue in June for a record-breaking month.

A selection of news and reflections from Las Vegas and Atlantic City this week.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry.

News Brief: Thousands of New Jersey state employees are headed back to work this morning, formally ending the weeklong government shutdown that temporarily halted most state services and closed Atlantic City's 12 casinos for three days.

Thousands of UNITE HERE members gather today at the steps of the State House in Trenton to demand that the leadership of the New Jersey Legislative Assembly approve a budget and end the stand-off that has shut down casino operations and race-tracks.

Blackjack players and other gamblers were banished from the Boardwalk early Wednesday, with Atlantic City's kings, queens and aces temporarily locked away because of New Jersey's worsening budget crisis.