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: A Life at Sea. A Life at Risk / Richard Degener examines the fishing industry.; Click here for the series: A Life at Sea. A Life at Risk; more >>

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: New Jersey headed toward 'pension train wreck'; Click here to search the database; more >>

: Indian casinos not immune to troubles during recession; LEDYARD, Conn. - Walk through the dim cigarette haze and past the banks of slot machines and it feels like just about any casino.; more >>

: Atlantic City sex blackmail trial adds to loss of Callaway control / with trial interactive; The plan was to take down a political traitor.; more >>

: Thousands of jobs linked to NextGen air traffic research site / with video & 3 related stories; When most people talk about big local business developments, they point to the Revel casino that's inching along in Atlantic City or to now-fallow Bader Field, which has become everyone's field of dreams.; more >>

: Shore home sales show signs of life in New Jersey / with list of most expensive sales; Before the housing market roared and crashed with the intensity of a tidal wave, Dave Henry owned as many as a dozen properties dotting the New Jersey shore.; more >>

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: Speaking New Jersey; Every workday, Helene Vaspoli dons her rollerskates and cruises across the floor at Boogie Nights nightclub.

: Southern New Jersey Development Update / 2nd Quarter 2009; Revel Casino / Atlantic City

: Special Report: Can slot machines save horse racing? Don't bet on it, New Jersey; Editor's Note: New Jersey's horse racing industry has been hammered for years by declining attendance and shrinking purses. It sees slot machines at racetracks as its best chance to survive.

: She's facing life's troubles with jewelry and ideas / with audio slideshow; Jennifer Harp-Douris stamps words such as "peace" and "dream" onto silver teardrop pendants, and the pendants serve as her peace and her dream.

: Your guide to thriving in retirement / A Press of Atlantic City special section; Everyone needs to understand retirement - the preparations for it, the benefits programs, the problems, and the sources of information and solutions.

: Absecon tries to save downtown's New Jersey Avenue / with audio slideshow; ABSECON - The sound of a man rapping to his iPod carried across a two-block row of shops that is the main drag of downtown Absecon. Nothing else stirred on New Jersey Avenue as he strode past sunset-illuminated store windows, some revealing empty space.

: First Quarter 2009 Development Update; Atlantic City

: WWII medic Bernard Friedenberg writes book / with audio slideshow; Bernard Friedenberg held his hands to the chest of a soldier laying on Normandy's Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

Think solar. Think big: See and hear what gives Atlantic City solar project bragging rights

Published: 03/06/09
The building’s rooftop solar panels, which will provide about 2.37 megawatts of electricity, are officially ‘turned on’ by Gov. Jon S. Corzine.

Solar and wind energy in New Jersey got a boost Thursday with the unveiling of new projects and studies.

Development Update: Quarterly report on regional development

Published: 02/13/09

A quarterly report on casino expansions, new recreational facilities and public projects that are among the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on development in southern New Jersey. Here's a look at some major projects.

Atlantic City's Civil Rights Garden / audio slideshow

Published: 01/20/09

2008 Year in Review: Local photos, news, sports, Atlantic City shows

Published: 12/29/08

NJ Motorsports Park opens / interactive graphic, video & audio

Published: 07/11/08

Complete guide to Atlantic City's gambling palaces

Published: 01/22/08

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Story/Video package: Sands casino implosion