What to Know Atlantic City’s main casino workers union and the state’s attorney general want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a different union that seeks to ban smoking at the city’s nine casinos. Local 54 of the Unite Here union says many of its 10,000 workers could lose their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were banned. “A total smoking ban would place thousands of jobs at risk, endangering the wages, health and welfare benefits and retirement benefits of Local 54 members and their families,” the union wrote in its court filing. Atlantic City’s main casino ..read more

Police are investigating after a fight at the Showboat Resort Atlantic City Wednesday ended with a man being beaten and stabbed. Atlantic City Police Department said around 9 p.m. officers responded to the hotel after receiving a report that a man was stabbed. Upon arrival, police said officers found the victim – a 25-year-old man from Bronx, New York – suffering from a stab wound that was bleeding heavily. Police said officers applied a tourniquet and rendered immediate aid before the man was transported to the hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. An investigation reveale ..read more

A man died in a fire on the Atlantic City Boardwalk Thursday night, according to officials. Bruce Elder, 67, appeared to be sleeping near a homeless encampment under the boardwalk on 1400 Boardwalk and Tennessee avenues in Atlantic City, New Jersey, around 7 p.m., investigators said. A small campfire was set in the area near Elder, according to officials. The three-alarm fire spread upward, damaging the structure of the boardwalk and the arcade above, according to officials. Responding crews were eventually able to bring the fire under control. Elder was later found dead. Elder’s cause of deat ..read more

What to Know Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small says he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter. In his first public comments since prosecutors on Monday charged him and his wife, LaQuetta, the city’s superintendent of schools, with abusing their 16-year-old daughter and endangering her welfare, Small said he would not be distracted from his duties. He told an audience at a gambling conference that his situation is personal. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to ..read more

What to Know New Jersey’s high-flying internet gambling market continues to smash records. But the amount of money won from in-person gamblers at seven of Atlantic City’s nine casinos is less than it was before the COVID19 pandemic. Figures released Tuesday by state gambling regulators show the casinos or their online arms won over $197 million from online casino games in March, setting another monthly record. And while not a record, sports betting, powered by the March Madness college basketball tournament, saw almost $1.33 billion worth of bets taken in March. That was the fourth-highest am ..read more

Warning: This article contains details of alleged physical and emotional abuse and could be disturbing for some readers. What to Know Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife La’Quetta have been charged with endangering and abusing their teenage daughter. Charges filed Monday, April 15, 2024, by the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office allege the mayor repeatedly hit his daughter in the head with a broom, knocking her out. He and his wife are also accused of repeatedly punching her. Small’s attorney Ed Jacobs said the allegations don’t impede Small’s job as mayor. “Mayor Small and Superint ..read more

What to Know Atlantic City’s casinos were less profitable in 2023 than they were a year earlier, even with help from the state’s booming online gambling market. Figures released Monday by New Jersey gambling regulators show the nine casinos collectively reported a gross operating profit of $744 million in 2023, down 1.6% from 2022. All nine casinos were profitable in 2023, but only three saw an increase in profitability. Atlantic City’s casinos were less profitable in 2023 than they were a year earlier, even with help from the state’s booming online gambling market. Figures released Monday ..read more

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small addressed the public on Monday, just days after law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at his home last week. Joined by his attorney, Ed Jacobs, Small said that the search was tied to, what he called, a family matter. ‘I have nothing to hide’ “I have nothing to hide,” Small said during an April 1, 2024, news conference in the Jersey Shore resort town. According to the mayor, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office executed a search warrant at his home on Thursday, March 28, and they took a cellphone and laptops from his home. “They did all of this ju ..read more

New state-related funding has parachuted in to save the 2024 Atlantic City Airshow. Amid growing rumors that the annual Jersey Shore tradition wouldn’t happen this summer, both New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced that they had found the funds to keep the show — which draws half a million people, or more — going. “Today is truly a great day here in the city of Atlantic City as we announce that the 2024 airshow is on,” Small said while putting to rest at a Wednesday news conference any thoughts of the show not taking place over the beach, Atlantic Ocean and ..read more

The ocean and beaches have always been a part of Atlantic City’s identity: from salt water taffy to Miss America bathing beauties to the name of the place itself, the city has been marketed as a place to have fun by the sea. But there is a little too much Atlantic in Atlantic City this year as the crucial summer season approaches. Weeks of winter storms have badly eroded beaches in the northern section of town, leaving little if any sand on which to play during all but the lowest tides. Executives with the three northernmost casinos: the Ocean Casino Resort, Resorts and Hard Rock, are pressing ..read more