Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:53 PM EST
People use all sorts of ways to try to predict the winner of the Super Bowl: comparing regular season records, judging who looked stronger in the post-season run-up to the big game, or watching the betting lines from Las Vegas oddsmakers.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:10 PM EST
A New Jersey waitress has been accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl she was baby-sitting, laughing and chatting with someone as she filmed the assault and streamed video of it over the Internet.
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:06 PM EST
A man deported from the New Jersey shore for fathering two children with a 15-year-old girl can probably try to overturn his conviction by calling in to court from a pay phone in Mexico.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:14 PM EST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill into law Tuesday legalizing sports betting in the state — but only after a federal ban on such gambling is overturned.
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Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:45 PM EST
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a bill into law legalizing sports betting in his state — but only after a federal ban on such gambling is overturned.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:37 PM EST
Few things feel better in a gambler's paradise than the end of a long losing streak. And that's what Atlantic City has just experienced.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:13 PM EST
Atlantic City's casinos posted a monthly revenue increase of 4.2 percent in December, marking the first time in 3 1/2 years they had done so.
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Mon Jan 9, 2012 9:52 PM EST
Twenty years after missing a deadline to let its residents bet on professional or collegiate sporting events, New Jersey legislators passed a law Monday night that would make it legal.
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Mon Jan 2, 2012 11:17 AM EST
It may be up to New Jersey voters to decide whether to allow online betting in the state.
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Sat Dec 31, 2011 11:53 AM EST
You know that all-in moment, when you push most of your pile of chips out onto the table, and wait to see where the little white ball lands, or which card flips from the deck, to know whether you're a winner or a big loser? 2012 is looking a lot like that for Atlantic City.
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Fri Dec 23, 2011 1:38 PM EST
Just before Christmas, New Jersey casino regulators made way for some girls on Santa's naughty list.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:11 PM EST
A homeless New Jersey man whose videotaped beating was posted on YouTube is out of the hospital after suffering a seizure.
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Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:35 PM EST
When the Revel mega-casino opens in May, many of its dealers, beverage servers and other customer service workers will be young, attractive and sexy.
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Sat Dec 3, 2011 11:54 AM EST
Four major lawsuits, a dozen union demonstrations that drove business away, more than $16 million in losses, sexy billboards, stage shows and circuses that garnered widespread free publicity, and a broken back.
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Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:25 PM EST
The thousands of "Trump" references are gone from hotel doors, corridors and the sides of the building, along with the hundreds of thousands (maybe even millions?) of tiny interlocked "T"s that dominated the carpeting.
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Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:22 PM EST
At one Atlantic City casino, it's out with the old, in with the gold.
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Tue Nov 8, 2011 10:00 PM EST
New Jersey residents have voted in favor of the legalization of sports betting if a federal ban can be overturned.
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Wed Nov 2, 2011 7:18 PM EDT
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he'll vote in favor of letting residents of his state bet legally on sporting events.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011 8:39 PM EDT
Atlantic City casino workers successfully fought off a management demand that they take pay cuts and contribute for the first time to their health benefits and pension costs.
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Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:43 PM EDT
Sipping a beer and killing time in the 15 minutes between races at Freehold Raceway one recent afternoon, the guy in the Jets hat pondered the possibility that he might one day be able to put $100 down on his favorite football team at the same time he plunked down cash on the next sure thing at the track.
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Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:15 PM EDT
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump sees money — lots of it — flowing away from him. That, he said, needs to change.
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Sun Oct 9, 2011 12:09 PM EDT
Since coming to this country from the Dominican Republic, Marcos Vidal has scratched and clawed his way up to a lower-middle class existence, a status to which he is tenuously clinging.
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:14 AM EDT
The latest casino promotion in Atlantic City gives new meaning to "going bust."
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:33 AM EDT
These are the best of times, and the worst of times, for America's debt collectors.
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Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:07 PM EDT
The New Jersey prosecutor investigating two instances in which patrons of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort were carjacked in the parking garage and killed in a little more than a year says the incidents are "random coincidence" that could have happened anywhere.
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