Atlantic City

The Borgata casino said Thursday it will resume live poker play on Oct. 21. It is the first Atlantic City casino to announce the resumption of live poker.

The union is calling for those exposed to coronavirus be placed on paid leave and to self-quarantine for 14 days and for stations to be disinfected between shifts.

Four of Atlantic City's nine casinos will be run by women following the appointment Wednesday of a veteran female executive to run the Tropicana.

A New Jersey man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a woman over the weekend following what officials call a neighborhood dispute, authorities said.

“Black Lives Matter” was painted prominently in Atlantic City on Friday — just not on the seaside resort’s famous Boardwalk, which activists had originally hoped.

Atlantic City is attempting to co-opt plans by protesters to paint “Black Lives Matter” on the seaside gambling resort's famous Boardwalk by doing the same thing in a place of its own choosing — on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in front of its civil rights memorial.

Another sign of the economic pain being caused by COVID-19 are furloughs for thousands of employees at the Borgata in Atlantic City are now permanent. But, there’s some hope as indoor dining is set to resume in New Jersey on Friday.

Keshawn Faulkner faces charges of felony murder, robbery and a weapons offense in the death of Wayne Brown, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office.

Prosecutors have charged an Atlantic County man with murder following a fatal shooting at an Atlantic City hotel last week.

New Jersey’s casinos and horse tracks won $264.5 million in July after reopening amid the coronavirus outbreak, a figure that was down nearly 21% from a year ago, but one the gambling houses will gladly take after months of inactivity.

Authorities in Atlantic City say a 12-year-old boy was arrested after he allegedly evaded police in a stolen car before crashing into a pole Monday morning.

Stockton University is renting 400 hotel rooms in a former Atlantic City casino to help spread out students this fall amid the coronavirus outbreak.

For 38 years, Phyllis Papa has led the Atlantic City Ballet as its founding artistic director. 2020 is unlike anything she’s ever seen. 

The Borgata is the last of Atlantic City's nine casinos to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic and is expected to open to the public on July 26.

New Jersey state police said they arrested four men at the Tropicana Atlantic City shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday in connecting with the stabbings.

The casino will host an invitation-only “soft opening” starting July 23, Borgata officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, and will open its doors to everyone three days later.

The final month of coronavirus-mandated closures for New Jersey's casinos and racetracks was predictably bad.

The westbound side of the Atlantic City Expressway was temporarily closed early Sunday morning while police investigated a shooting that left at least one man hospitalized.