Tropicana Atlantic City News - Page 17

News Brief: At least six casinos decided this weekend to bring in replacement workers as the casino-workers strike entered its third day.

News Brief: Union officials fielded a contract offer from the Tropicana Casino and Resort on Thursday and then told casino officials they could jump off their building.

News Brief: Local 54 will picket Tropicana Casino and Resort, starting midnight Friday and running through Saturday night, as part of the union's plan to force the casino industry into a contract.

An open letter from Dennis C. Gomes, president of resort operations, Aztar Corp. and Pamela J. Popielarski, president and general manager of Tropicana, Atlantic City, was sent to the president of Local 54.

News Brief: The owner of a business located near the Tropicana parking garage that collapsed in October filed a lawsuit Thursday requesting all businesses that lost profits because of the accident and experienced other problems join in a suit against those responsible.

News Brief: Tropicana recently raised its early morning parking rates from $4 to $20. Construction workers are complaining the increase unfairly targets them.

News Brief: Four construction workers died when five floors of Tropicana Casino and Resort's parking garage collapsed in October because the gaming hall and companies building the garage cut corners to save time and money, their families charge in a lawsuit filed this week.

News Brief: A Florida man who slashed a casino security guard in the face and head during a scuffle was sentenced to seven years in prison for the crime.

News Brief: A 49-year-old Clifton woman survived an encounter at knifepoint Friday with a suspect police believe stalks gamblers on casino floors before following them to their hotel rooms and robbing them.

News Brief: Tropicana's concrete subcontractor knew there was a problem that could cause the structure to fail but ignored it, federal investigators charged in a report released Thursday on the fatal garage collapse.

News Brief: The federal government will release findings today from its investigation of the Tropicana Casino and Resort garage collapse that killed four men and injured 21 more in October.

News Brief: Tropicana Casino and Resort plans to open its entire $245 million expansion project, including the fatally flawed parking garage, by the end of September, Aztar Corp. said Wednesday.

News Brief: The Tropicana Casino and Resort is making horse racing the theme for its latest promotion to draw customers.

News Brief: A New Jersey agency is reviving plans for a $20 million parking garage that was put on hold following the catastrophic collapse of the Tropicana Casino and Resort parking garage.

News Brief: The general contractor for the Tropicana parking garage that partly collapsed in October has applied for a permit to demolish at least part of the structure.

News Brief: The deadly Oct. 30 collapse of the Tropicana Casino and Resort garage occurred less than an hour after a city building inspector examined the site and found nothing awry, according to city records.

News Brief: Two construction workers injured in the Tropicana garage collapse plan to sue the city, county and state in separate actions, one claiming officials failed to properly inspect the casino site, the other charging they ignored dangerous on-site conditions.

Aztar reports that construction has recommenced in the hotel tower and in part of the dining, entertainment and retail portion of the expansion of its Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

News Brief: Tropicana Casino and Resort is financially strong enough to weather an undetermined delay of its major expansion project, the Casino Control Commission said Wednesday in awarding the casino a four-year license renewal.

News Brief: Tropicana Casino & Resort took another step toward normalcy Tuesday afternoon, when authorities allowed the casino to reopen the walkway over Pacific Avenue and the other half of its parking garage.