Atlantic City is famous for its boardwalk, casino gambling, sandy beaches, shopping centers, view of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the inspiration for the board game Monopoly. The first boardwalk was built in 1870, along a portion of the beach to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies. The idea caught on, and the boardwalk was expanded and modified several times in the following years.

Population: 35770
Local Newspapers: The Press of Atlantic City
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The former Revel property, due to reopen under a new brand this summer, is bringing virtual golf to the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Its owners said Monday they will offer the world's largest Topgolf Swing Suite, featuring a lounge in which players will engage in various virtual golf games, as well as a virtual putting green and interactive multi-sport games.

David Feinberg, MD, president and CEO, Geisinger; Lori Herndon, president and CEO, AtlantiCare; Gene Arnone, past chair, AtlantiCare System Board and Edward R. Knight Award winner; Tina Ercole LoBiondo and husband Congressman Frank LoBiondo, Edward R. Knight Award winners; Michael Charlton, chairman, AtlantiCare System Board, and Pat Agnellini, chairman, AtlantiCare Foundation Board.

The "Yeah!" hitmaker is caught in a legal battle with Quantasia Sharpton, who went public about the romantic night she and Usher spent together in August 2017. Usher has refuted her claims and is now seeking to keep his responses to her requests for evidence under wraps, reports aceshowbiz.com.

That's not the precise result of a new study that looks at a north-south divide in how the State of New Jersey divvies up municipal aid, but it's not an unreasonable assumption based on the findings. The new report comes from the same Rutgers University-Camden group that two years ago made the hardly surprising discovery that, after adjusting for all other factors, South Jersey as a region received less of the total state assistance pie than either North Jersey or Central Jersey.

A murder that took 50 years to solve spurred Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni to commit more resources to investigating cold cases, the mysteries that often hold a lurid fascination for the public but leave lingering emotional damage for those who knew the victims. Gramiccioni and New Jersey's other 20 county prosecutors may get even more help from the state, which is considering forming a statewide cold case unit to assist in investigating the hundreds of unsolved homicides in New Jersey dating back decades.

With the enactment in 2010 of New Jersey's Offshore Wind Economic Development Act , sponsored by Sen. Stephen Sweeney, our state was set to become a leader in electricity from offshore wind. This was going to open up an entire new sector of the economy that would have created good-paying jobs for decades to come, attracted an enormous amount of businesses and capital, and generated cheap, clean energy.

Watch Kevin Lee vs. Edson Barboza full fight video highlights from UFC Atlantic City's main event above, courtesy of FOX Sports. UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee took place April 21 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

David Branch , Ricky Simon , Merab Dvalishvili and Siyar Bahadurzada took home $50,000 bonuses for their work at UFC Fight Night 128 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. on Saturday night. Branch turned the tables on knockout artist Thiago Santos to earn a "Performance of the Night" award in their featured middleweight affair.

Kevin Lee faces off with Edson Barboza. The two fight in the main event of UFC Atlantic City on Saturday in Atlantic City, N.J. This is the UFC Atlantic City live blog for Edson Barboza vs. Kevin Lee , a catchweight bout at Saturday night's UFC event at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J. The bout will be contested at 157 pounds after Lee failed to hit the lightweight mark at Friday's weigh-ins.

Watch the UFC Fight Night 128: Barboza vs. Lee post-fight press conference shortly after the conclusion of the night's main event in Atlantic City, N.J. Several of the events key fighters will field questions from the media. The UFC Fight Night 128 headliner features a pivotal lightweight bout between Edson Barboza and Kevin Lee.

Fight fans got a rare finish earlier tonight at UFC Fight Night 128 live on FOX Sports 1 from inside Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, when Octagon newcomer Ricky Simon scored a third-round TKO victory over talented bantamweight prospect Merab Dvalishvili. In a fight that Dvalishvili was winning, Simon needed something big in the final frame to capture glory his UFC debut.

Fire officials say a blaze that injured two firefighters did more than $1 million damage to a New Jersey home. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the fire at the three-story Ventnor Heights home was reported shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday.

On April 21, 2018 Fast rising New Jersey based promotional company and a staple in the Atlantic City boxing scene, , will be heading up the parkway bringing live boxing to Paramus, NJ featuring a card full of local fighters including Wyckoff, New Jersey native Darren Goodall in the main event.

A beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The state just passed a ban on offshore drilling, citing the economic importance of the New Jersey coastline.

Although the weather pattern seems to finally be changing, with warmer temperatures in the forecast after Thursday's damp and chilly annoyance, we still have a few more cold nights to get through before spring truly plants its flag. Fortunately, no big storms are on the way, so the Garden State should be snow-free the rest of this spring.

Before Kevin Lee begins his run back to the title at this weekend's UFC Fight Night 128 event against Edson Barboza in Atlantic City, N.J., take a look back at one of "Motown Phenom's" most dominant and impressive performances. Back in 2016, Lee found himself staring down Magomed Mustafaev at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast, Ireland.

New Jersey taxpayers' tab for the takeover of Atlantic City has reached about $5 million in fees from the law firm former Gov. Chris Christie picked to oversee the gambling resort. Records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show the firm of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi billed the state for $4.8 million going back to the November 2016 takeover of the gambling resort.

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