New Jersey News - Page 137

News Brief: A gospel choir. A Mother's Day brunch. A casino hotel. Incongruous? Not Sunday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

News Brief: Harrah's Atlantic City is sending Brigantine resident Russell Diaz for free after he won the casino's preliminary tournament late Wednesday night.

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: Legalized sports betting in Atlantic City would be a financial windfall for New Jersey and allow casinos to compete with flashier Las Vegas counterparts, industry executives testified at the Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee hearings.

News Brief: The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority approved a plan between its two racetracks and casinos that would put million of dollars into purses in exchange for the tracks’ agreement to delay plans to add video slot machines to its facilities.

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 New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority gave approval Wednesday to an $86 million casino-funded bailout of the state's financially troubled horsetracks.

News Brief: The New Jersey gaming regulators have banned controversial boxing promoter, Don King, from doing business with the casinos at least until 2005.

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: A New Jersey Assembly panel will take up the issue of sports betting next week.

News Brief: The New Jersey Casino Control Commission is expected to vote today on whether to impose a five-year ban on Don King that would prevent him from applying for a gaming license to promote Atlantic City fights.

News Brief: Late-night bingo is filling the Taj Mahal ballroom every Tuesday night.

News Brief: The New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling is launching a major campaign designed to help problem gamblers.

News Brief: A seasonal outdoor events area the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa soon will start building.

News Brief: A New Jersey agency gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an $86 million deal that will bail out the state’s financially strapped horse racing tracks and prevent them from having video slot machines in competition with Atlantic City casinos.

News Brief: Despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that Interstate Industrial Corp. and Drywall Corp. were well connected to organized crime, they will likely be granted a non-gaming casino service industry license.

News Brief: Year-end figures show that Atlantic City casino revenue and hotel occupancy rates rose in 2003, even though the number of visitors dropped 2.9 percent to 32.2 million.

News Brief: 94-year old Anne Kolmetsky is a seven-card veteran who credits her daily poker playing to her healthy and happiness.

News Brief: New Jersey gaming regulators suspended the licenses of six current or former casino hosts accused of participating in a prostitution ring that supplied young Asian women for high rollers.

News Brief: Pushing ahead with an aggressive expansion program, Harrah's Entertainment Inc. plans to build two new hotel towers and other attractions at its Atlantic City casinos in a head-to-head battle with a powerful new competitor.