A second person died Tuesday, hours after being rescued from a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
With its energy-gobbling casinos, Atlantic City, New Jersey, isn't exactly known as a city that conserves electricity. Its motto: "Always turned on."
It looks like the house doesn't always win, after all.
Trump Entertainment Resorts, the casino operating group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to court documents filed Tuesday in Camden, N.J.
The pair cancel a gig – and disappoint fans – at a South Florida club
Brett Favre is finally retiring, which means millions of New Yorkers are dancing in the streets and 501 New Yorkers are heartbroken.
Atlantic City gambling floors will go smoke-free for seven days before allowing visitors to light up again because the city can't legally stop a smoking ban from taking effect
• Paris Hilton – in vintage threads and carrying a handbag from her own line – and Benji Madden, appearing to be inseparable at club mur.mur at the Borgata Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. And the staff there was nearly as doting as her boyfriend: The waiters and security guards wore "Paris for President" pins.
Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty in November 2007 to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
It may be the best time to buy a house in more than four years.
A second person died Tuesday, hours after being rescued from a fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey coast, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
With its energy-gobbling casinos, Atlantic City, New Jersey, isn't exactly known as a city that conserves electricity. Its motto: "Always turned on."
It looks like the house doesn't always win, after all.
Trump Entertainment Resorts, the casino operating group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to court documents filed Tuesday in Camden, N.J.
The pair cancel a gig – and disappoint fans – at a South Florida club
Brett Favre is finally retiring, which means millions of New Yorkers are dancing in the streets and 501 New Yorkers are heartbroken.
Atlantic City gambling floors will go smoke-free for seven days before allowing visitors to light up again because the city can't legally stop a smoking ban from taking effect
• Paris Hilton – in vintage threads and carrying a handbag from her own line – and Benji Madden, appearing to be inseparable at club mur.mur at the Borgata Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. And the staff there was nearly as doting as her boyfriend: The waiters and security guards wore "Paris for President" pins.
Former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy was sentenced to three years probation and fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty in November 2007 to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
It may be the best time to buy a house in more than four years.
Heidi Montag took a break from her burgeoning pop career to celebrate Valentine's Day with on-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt.
At Civics: This is basically a walk-in scrapbook, with the additional advantage of a liquor license. The walls of the Youngstown, Ohio, establishment are covered in framed newspaper pages, all of them narrating the career of a South Side scrapper, pale and bony (so pale, he's called the Ghost), who grew up around the corner. PAVLIK BURSTS ONTO SCENE reads a 2001 headline from The Vindicator of Youngstown. KEYSTONER AREA BOXER IS GETTING A W. PA. FOLLOWING is from a month earlier. PAVLIK SET TO FIGHT JULY 1 AT CAFARO FIELD. And on and on they go, wall after wall, a fight here, an appearance there, some bit of news, a ray of hope. No act of aspiration unpublished.
The Jonas Brothers' Joe Jonas landed in the emergency room Saturday night after taking a small spill following a show in Atlantic City.
Perhaps it's time to call her Lady Luck instead of The Duchess.
The former mayor of Atlantic City pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of nearly $25,000 for false claims about his military service during the Vietnam War, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey.
The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, who is the target of a federal investigation into his military disability payments, has resigned after being missing from work for two weeks, his attorney said Wednesday.
Chargers center Nick Hardwick was named the backup for the AFC squad in the 2007 Pro Bowl. The 26-year-old is in his third season with San Diego.
"All these yeses - sounds like my bedroom," a union guy whispers in my ear. Yuk-yuk. The setting is a crowded hotel meeting room at the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City. It's past midnight on the last Saturday in August. I'm here with dozens of increasingly confident union supporters and several dour company officials as a blue-suited woman from the National Labor Relations Board unfolds ballots one by one and counts the votes: "Yes. Yes. Yes."
Casino operator Trump Entertainment Resorts said Monday it did not reach a deal with potential acquirers and has ended discussions to sell itself, sending its shares down 14 percent.
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The driver of the pickup that may have been involved in the crash that critically injured New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has been found, police said late Saturday afternoon.
Big Pharma, already reeling from mounting competition and tightening government regulations, now has another problem to deal with: an oversupply of sales reps, many of whom are fed up with what they describe as an increasingly restrictive work environment, according to drug industry officials.
No longer a pale imitation of Las Vegas for low-rollers and gambling grandmothers, Atlantic City has enjoyed a jackpot of terrific new golf courses in the past decade. That competition has kept prices in check, especially compared to Vegas, where three courses alone charge $500 a round. Five bills will get you an entire weekend in A.C. and still leave a little something for the slots.
Expanding health care insurance for all Americans is the health care industry's top concern for the next five years, according to a survey, which could translate into stronger sales for the nation's big drugmakers - at least in the near term.
GREENHOUSE GASES The average American's use of transportation and electricity releases 10 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. The goods and services she consumes are responsible f...
Now that we've pointed out which markets are poised for a bull run in the next cycle, we'd be remiss if we didn't also offer some guidance on which locales look the most vulnerable right now.
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed a $30.9 billion compromise state budget into law Saturday evening, formally ending a financial impasse that essentially shut down the state and some of its businesses.
Stocks fizzled at Wednesday's open, the recent enthusiasm over cooling inflation struck by a seventh missile test launch by suspected nuclear power North Korea.
Atlantic City's 12 casinos began shutting down for the first time ever at 8 a.m. ET Wednesday morning as the New Jersey budget crisis that began July 1 continued.
The Chinese enclave of Macau is known for its gambling, sex trade and Chinese gangsters, with intrigue and shady deals long part of its landscape.
Monopoly, invented in 1935, is getting with the times.
Stocks could get a lift early Monday from merger activity and a new drop in the price of oil.
After falling flat on its face in the first Vioxx trial in Texas, Merck is likely to face a less hostile group of potential jurors when the drugmaker heads to court next week in its home state of New Jersey.
Miss America is waving goodbye to Atlantic City, N.J., organizers of the pageant announced Thursday.
Until the late 1970s, playing the blackjack tables or the slot machines were not regular pastimes for middle America. A trek to Nevada was the only way to get the excitement and ambience of a casino without leaving the country..
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Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc., Donald Trump's troubled casino business, said it has fired the real estate tycoon as CEO but will keep him as the company's chairman.
While President Bush spends Tuesday morning feting Hamid Karzai and highlighting how the war on terror has played out in Afghanistan, Sen. John Kerry will be keeping his focus studiously domestic, well removed from the red-carpet doings in Washington.
Donald Trump's debt-laden casino company said Thursday it has made the May interest payment on its $1.3 billion in Trump Atlantic City Associates bonds.
In a rare interview on Swedish television, reclusive director Ingmar Bergman said he hates to watch his own movies.
He may have a hit TV show, a new book and a stable of high-profile real estate, but "The Donald's" Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. may be on shaky ground.
He's the star of NBC's top-rated reality television show, The Apprentice. He's currently erecting seven new skyscrapers, producing beauty pageants, and building three lavish new golf courses, one i...
The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the license of a pilot who it says made a reckless four-hour flight last week over the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area.
We are driving down the New Jersey Turnpike, waiting for the cellphone to ring. Normally we'd hope that the damn thing never made a sound. But today we are plumbing the depths of resentment that Am...
The new Vice Fund invests in companies deriving revenue from "products often considered socially irresponsible," including alcohol and tobacco. But if you really want to be bad, these stocks each o...
If you're like a lot of investors these days, you've probably harbored a bitter thought or two about all the other things you might as well have done with your money. Like stuffing it in a mattress...
This husband-and-wife team admits that moving their polling company from New Jersey to Las Vegas five years ago wasn't a sure thing. They'd found a nice niche conducting surveys for Atlantic City c...
Lounging in a limo as it cruised through the streets of Las Vegas, Barry Sternlicht, the CEO of Starwood Hotels, picked up the phone. On the line was Arthur Goldberg, who had made his first fortune...
In 1998, you can rely on bonds to perform their traditional role as your portfolio's calming influence. Consider the evidence: During Halloween week in October, when stock prices were zigzagging li...
Every October, movie theater owners convene in Atlantic City to schmooze with the major studios and be plied with meals and gifts. At this year's convention, freebies included a Flubber T-shirt fro...
The word "ax" doesn't always refer to a sharp-edged implement used to chop down trees. On Wall Street it means the most powerful analyst covering a group of companies in a given industry. Even the ...
In the black days of 1991, Donald Trump often strolled with his finance chief, Stephen Bollenbach, from the peach marble atrium of Trump Tower to lunch at another Trump trophy, New York's fabled Pl...
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Better watch your wallet: One-armed bandits could be coming to your town, if they aren't there already. Slot machines, as well as other casino games, are springing up all over the country. Since Io...
The beauty of mutual funds is that they allow you to increase your wealth without much worry. For some people, though, funds eliminate the thrill of the hunt that comes with picking individual stoc...
ATLANTIC CITY -- A cocktail waitress has sued the Sands Hotel, Casino, and ; Country Club, contending that the gaming hall discriminates against female employees by forcing them to dress provocativ...
HAVING ranked the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas annually for five years, in July we sent reporters back to all our former No. 1 cities and No. 300 cities to see how each place is faring. What...
After five years raider Carl Icahn, 55, is finally out of USX's hair, only to land in Donald Trump's blow-dried locks. USX split its stock into steel and energy components but denies the move was I...
Casino regulation in Atlantic City being one of the subjects on which Keeping Up readers receive timely reports no matter what they say, we return herewith to the seaside with an exclusive analysis...
We keep looking for something to happen in the great American casino industry, and it never happens, even though economic theory tells us it must happen. Baffling, eh? And definitely requiring an e...
Monaco's Prince Albert -- in the U.S. with the rest of his family for an annual benefit for a foundation named for the late Princess Grace, his mother -- says he'd like to see more foreign companie...
NOTHING IS QUITE as it seems when you pass through the looking glass into the fiscal fantasyland where Donald Trump resides. His 26th-floor office in Manhattan's Trump Tower is really only 18 floor...
With brokerage profits down roughly 67% from the peak year of 1986, Wall Street's stock jockeys are flogging analysts' picks more aggressively than ever. But in this day of the superhard sell, can ...
How good a contract did Donald Trump ink for his own divorce? The couple's prenuptial agreement, as renegotiated sporadically during their marriage, calls for wife Ivana to receive up to $25 millio...
HAS DONALD TRUMP finally dealt himself a bad hand? He appears overextended on the Trump Taj Mahal, a new casino-hotel he is building in Atlantic City. In a recent interview with FORTUNE, he didn't ...
How often does someone tell you what not to invest in? Probably about as often as Hugh Hefner gets married or the Cubs win the pennant. Some 83,000 stockbrokers, 3,100 equity and bond analysts, 23,...
Q. I am about to fulfill the Great American Dream -- buying a house. By January 1990, my savings will reach $15,000. My family's combined income is $61,000, and we owe $12,000 on credit cards and $...
The push is on. Las Vegas, long known for its slot machines, feathered showgirls and its UNLV Runnin' Rebels college basketball team, is trading glitz for respectability and -- believe it or not --...
Just think, gamblers! If you had backed the house instead of a hunch, look how well you would have done since January. Investments in casino companies -- a $9.3 billion industry and growing -- have...
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ATLANTIC CITY -- The city council last week unanimously passed a measure to require palm readers to undergo a criminal check . . . and positive identification when they go for their annual license ...
CONSIDER the novel concept that Donald Trump may only appear to be a self- centered, breast-beating egomaniac. Perhaps he is really just a victim of what pop psychologists call the ''impostor syndr...
Park Place, the Boardwalk and the other streets of Atlantic City (pop. 37,300) have long since lost their Monopoly luster. Many New Jerseyans hoped that legalized gaming would revive this deteriora...
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Is it possible to trump Donald Trump? Ramada Inc., the hotelier to the middle class, is playing a high-stakes game against Trump, the paragon of the monied ; class, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Sq...
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Having beaten the odds in Atlantic City, Pratt is ready to gamble in the high- stakes New York City real estate market. Late in 1984 the Dallas company extensively overhauled its money-losing Sands...
Will casino stocks make a winning hand in 1986? Last year lady luck deserted the casino operators, whose stocks rose only 15.7% on average, vs. a 26.3% advance in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index....
Donald Trump's growing empire is also upsetting the status quo in Atlantic City. He owns one and a half of the last two casinos to open there and is currently negotiating to buy the half he doesn't...
WITH ITS TROUBLES multiplying like you-know-whats, Playboy Enterprises has turned tough. It has sued Elsinore Corp. of Las Vegas, its former partner in an Atlantic City casino, and filed a petition...
Divers off the South Florida coast discovered a sunken Spanish galleon loaded with gold, silver, and copper that they say could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The find culminates a 16-ye...
First there was Trump Village in Brooklyn, a middle-class rental development, then there was Trump Tower in Manhattan, a gilded monument to conspicuous consumption on Fifth Avenue, and now Trump Ca...
STEPHEN A. WYNN, the 43-year-old chairman of Golden Nugget Inc., changes into a jogging suit and sinks into an armchair in his company's plush DC-9 as it soars over the Great Plains from Atlantic C...
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