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Solar-panel plant in Millville could bring about 300 jobs

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home


APA solar-powered houseMILLVILLE - A planned solar panel manufacturing plant here could mean nearly 300 jobs, according to a report in The Press o...

NJ city councilman: Sex was last thing on my mind

AP | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

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MAYS LANDING, N.J. — Eugene Robinson said sex was the last thing on his mind as he drove the pretty young girl who had asked for a ride to her motel.

"I was waiting for God to send me the one that's supposed to be my Christian wife," he said. "That's what it says in the Bible."

Yet within minutes of taking the girl to a cheap motel in neighboring Absecon, the 67-year-old Atlantic City Councilman and Baptist minister was receiving oral sex.

"I was so surprised," he testified Wednesday in an Atlantic County courtroom. "I, um, hadn't really had any sexual activity since '89. I thought that, naively, we were going to just pet."

He didn't know that the woman was a prostitute hired by his political rivals to lure him into a sex sting, and that a camera hidden in a clock radio near the bed was recording the tryst.

Jurors at AC corruption trial watch sex tape

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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MAYS LANDING, N.J. — Jurors at the trial of three men accused of trying to blackmail an Atlantic City councilman have seen the beginning of a sex tape.

The secretly recorded tape shown Tuesday depicts Councilman Eugene Robinson with a prostitute in a motel room. Kristyn Haino (HAY'-noh) and Robinson, who also is a Baptist minister, are seen embracing and kissing on the 10-second clip.

Haino, a Tuckerton native who now lives in Virginia Beach, Va., testified that Robinson kept up a steady stream of vulgar, offensive talk while she performed oral sex.

She said he later slipped her a business card with the words "City Councilman" on it.

Floyd Tally and brothers David and Ronald Callaway face charges of conspiracy, criminal coercion and invasion of privacy. They deny the accusations.

Jurors in blackmail trial view sex tape of Atlantic City councilman

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

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ATLANTIC CITY -- Jurors at the trial of three men accused of trying to blackmail an Atlantic City councilman saw the beginning of a sex tape today...

Atlantic City police identify 23-year-old man found shot to death

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home

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ATLANTIC CITY -- A man found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in Atlantic City was identified by police, according to a report by the Press of At...

Atlantic City sex tape blackmail trial begins

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

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AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Danny DrakeCraig Callaway, left, in a 2007 photo, with his lawyer in Superior Court in Mays Landing. Callaway...

Labor racketeering investigator is due on stand in Merlino hearing in A.C.

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home


AP In this Feb. 18, 1997 photo, reputed mob figure Joey "Skinny Joey" Merlino leaves the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia. ATLANTIC CITY --...

Owner of Ocean City store set ablaze accused in insurance fraud

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

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Noah K. Murray/The Star-LedgerThe Boardwalk in Ocean City.OCEAN CITY -- An Ocean City store owner was arrested for allegedly setting fire to his s...

Atlantic City reconsiders casino smoking ban

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home


Mel Evans/APAtlantic City hotels and casinos reflected in the water in this Nov. 2007 photo. ATLANTIC CITY -- A year after the nation's second-lar...

James Vellanti, Hedge Fund Exec, Falls To Death On Escalator At Caesars Atlantic City

pressofatlanticcity.com | ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York


ATLANTIC CITY - A northern New Jersey man fell to his death early Sunday morning at The Pier at Caesars, the second man in two years to plunge from an...

A.C. Playboy casino will have 25-year reunion in Avalon

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home

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Getty ImagesPlayboy founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner in 2005.ATLANTIC CITY -- Employees from the former Playboy Hotel and Casino will have...

Former VP Al Gore To Stump For NJ Gov. Jon Corzine in Atlantic City Next Week

Joe Territo | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York


Joe Territo

Former Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to deliver the keynote address to the New Jersey Democratic State Conference in Atlantic City next Friday,...

Atlantic City firefighter accused in sexual abuse lawsuit is suspended

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

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Andrew Mills/The Star-LedgerTwo teenage girls have filed a lawsuit against an Atlantic City firefighter they claim enticed them into a sexual e...

Atlantic City High School disciplines 150 students for dress-code violations

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

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ATLANTIC CITY -- The city's high school issued in-school suspensions to 150 students during the first five days of class this fall under a toug...

Atlantic City (and all of New Jersey) Bets on Green Energy

Joe Territo | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York


Joe Territo

The next time you hold your nose while filling up at the Vince Lombardi rest stop, breathe easy knowing New Jersey is doing its part to clean up our environment and decrease dependence on fossil fuels.

Rafael Pichardo, Man Who Bit Off Cop's Finger In Atlantic City, Gets 15 Years In Prison

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York


MAYS LANDING, N.J. — A New York City man who bit off part of a New Jersey police officer's finger has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Thi...

WLNG: Radio America Remembers (Video)

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment


Tom Gregory

For an audio trigger back to the halcyon days of your father's generation, a click of a mouse, or a trip to Long Island's East End is a journey back to the good old days of the summer sound.

Donald Trump Regains 3 Atlantic City Casinos

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: It's Donald Trump. The real estate mogul and reality TV star, his daughter Ivank...

Lobster Theft: N.J. Man Who Swiped 91 Lobsters From Casino Kitchen Gets 4 Years In Jail

New York Daily News | Samuel Goldsmith | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York


A New Jersey man was pinched for stealing 91 lobsters from an Atlantic City casino - and its going to cost him four years in jail. Anthony Jones, 38,...

Donald Trump Aims To Retake Control Of Casinos

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


CAMDEN, N.J. — As the casino company that bore his name sank deeper and deeper into the red this year, Donald Trump went head to head with bondh...

11 Years After His Death, "New" Music From Frank Sinatra

Tony Sachs | Posted 06.14.2009 | Entertainment


Tony Sachs

Three new releases, Live At The Meadowlands, My Way, and Classic Sinatra II should please hardcore fans and newbies alike.

Casinos Consider Cutting Free Drinks

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 04.16.2008 | Business


ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — While there may have been no such thing as a free lunch in the rest of the world, you could get one pretty easily here for...

Apathy and Hope in Atlantic City

Joshua Cinelli | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Joshua Cinelli

Atlantic City, home to wealthy casinos and extreme poverty, is both apathetic and hopeful about the coming election. Watch the audio slideshow and find out why.

MGM Bets On New Atlantic City Casino

AP | Wayne Parry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


MGM Mirage Inc. announced Wednesday that it plans to build a mega-casino resort worth up to $5 billion that will dwarf anything Atlantic City has seen...