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An electronic sign welcomes visitors to the Atlantic City, N.J. Boardwalk on Dec. 28, 2023. Atlantic City faces challenges in the new year including a potential smoking ban in its nine casinos, and their quest to return to pre-pandemic business levels. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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Casino smoking and boosting in-person gambling are among challenges for Atlantic City in 2024
By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press
Fri,12/29/23-12:25PM , 141 Reads
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — After the confetti is swept away and the empty champagne bottles recycled in Atlantic City, 2024 will bring numerous challenges and potential opportunities for the East Coast gambling resort.
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Delorese Butley-Whaley brings her purchases of milk and bread to the register of a specially modified bus that serves as a mobile supermarket in Atlantic City N.J. on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. Virtua Health and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority are operating a service to bring fresh groceries and produce to Atlantic City, where plans for what would be the city's first supermarket in nearly 20 years recently fell through. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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With no supermarket for residents of Atlantic City, New Jersey and hospitals create mobile groceries
By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press
Fri,12/08/23-1:59PM , 160 Reads
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — In this seaside resort, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a supermarket.
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Gene Simmons, left, Eric Singer, Paul Stanley and Tommy Thayer of KISS take a bow during the final night of the "Kiss Farewell Tour," Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Review: The long Kiss goodbye ends at New York's Madison Square Garden, but Kiss avatars loom
By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press
Sun,12/03/23-12:59PM , 370 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — It's the end of the road for Kiss. But it's not the end of Kiss.

The hard-rocking quartet from New York City played final live concerts Friday and Saturday at Madison Square Garden, culminating a half century of rocking and rolling all night and partying every day.
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Dealers conduct a game of roulette at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City, N.J., on May 17, 2023. Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to figures released on Sept. 14, 2023, by a national gambling industry group. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

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US casinos have their best July ever, winning nearly $5.4B from gamblers
By WAYNE PARRY - Associated Press
Thu,09/14/23-2:16PM , 204 Reads
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to figures released Thursday by a national gambling industry group.

The American Gaming Association said the casinos' winnings were up nearly 6% from July 2022.
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