Atlantic City News

Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy is seen as it makes landfall southwest of Atlantic City, New Jersey in this GOES-13 satellite colorized infrared handout image taken October 29, 2012.

THERE'S NO QUESTION this week's opening of the Margaritaville complex at Resorts Casino Hotel is sucking most of the oxygen from the air in Atlantic City, but the much-hyped Parrotopia is not the only new hot spot in town.

An Atlantic City casino's former security manager faces charges of promoting prostitution and obstructing administration of law, authorities say.

President Obama will tour the Jersey Shore with Governor Christie on Tuesday, capping an extended Memorial Day weekend that already had the governor opening a new Atlantic City casino and features live network coverage this morning of the reopening of the boardwalk in Seaside Heights.

MORRISTOWN - A 40-year-old Wayne resident was sentenced to three years of probation today for operating what a prosecutor described as two gambling "casinos" in Pequannock and Parsippany known as the Connections Internet Cafe.

Clad in an eye-catching fluorescent yellow-green workman's vest, he's hard not to notice.

A crowd gathers outside the new Margaritaville at Resorts in Atlantic City, NJ on May 23, 2013.

ATLANTIC CITY - Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced that a security manager at Atlantic CityaA A s Trump Taj Mahal casino has been indicted for allegedly obstructing an undercover investigation into prostitution in Atlantic City.

James Curtis, 36, of Brigantine, a former security manager at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, was indicted Wednesday on charges of obstructing an undercover investigation into prostitution.

Atlantic City,NJ: Rapper Driicky Graham performing on stage at The Pool After Dark, Harrah's Atlantic City on Wednesday May 22, 2013.

Typically, you should anticipate up to a half hour, or more, to travel between AC and the Garden State Parkway.

The Wanted Perform at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Aug. 23, with tickets going on sale Friday at 10 a.m. The following are concerts and other major events for which tickets are going on sale this week.

Chief Justice Stuart Rabner speaks at the New Jersey State Bar Association's annual meeting and convention held in Atlantic City.

Mechanical bulls are making a comeback in New Jersey. There are bucking beasts at the Colorado CafA© in Watchung, the Stewed Cow in Hoboken and Bally's casino in Atlantic City, not to mention the rental bulls that are brought in for special events at Jersey Shore summer bars.

Last November, Vick spoke to high school students and visited a shelter for residents who were displaced by Superstorm Sandy.

Apparently, giving someone a key to a city is something people still do. Evidently it doesn't just happen in sitcoms! The latest man to receive the honor is Michael Vick , who was given the key to Atlantic City by Mayor Lorenzo Langford .

In the Dish column on May 10, we planned to put to bed, for a while, at least, comments and letters about snapper soup and soft-shell crabs.

Whenever some people go vacation, you can almost always expect them to bring back taffy for their family and friends and even a box or two for themselves.

"There weren't a whole lot of people sitting around New Jersey or Pennsylvania that said, 'Let's go party tonight in Resorts,"' said Etess, whose Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority now runs Resorts Casino Hotel.

More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the Jersey Shore region, the beaches will be open for Memorial Day Weekend and the summer.