Atlantic City’s casinos have been losing their glitz and gambling dollars to the more than 40 new rivals that have opened in neighboring states, with gaming revenue nearly halving from its 2006 peak of $5.2 billion.
Three of the 12 casinos in the city closed earlier this year, and a fourth, one of the Trump Entertainment properties, closed its doors Sept. 16.
The Ebola virus has infected more than 6,000 and killed roughly 3,000 in a Western Africa epidemic this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 1,940 cases were reported in Sierra Leone, about 600 of them fatal, the CDC said.
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Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters filled the streets of Hong Kong late on Tuesday, stockpiling supplies and erecting makeshift barricades ahead of what some fear may be a push by police to clear the roads before Chinese National Day.
On the eve of Wednesday’s anniversary of the Communist Party’s foundation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, crowds poured into central districts of the Asian financial hub, near where National Day festivities are scheduled to take place.
There was a carnival atmosphere among demonstrators, in contrast to weekend clashes when riot police fired pepper spray and tear gas to quell the unrest. – Reuters reports
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The fall high school sports season is heating up, as the playoffs are just around the corner. Baltimore Sun community papers’ photographers were out capturing the action again last week, and here’s some of their best stuff.
Dedicated to surf loving canines, the 6th Annual Surf City Surf Dog Competition took place this weekend in Huntington Beach, California.
“Rough Cut” is a loose edit from The Baltimore Sun’s photographic coverage of the National Football League. Fanatic fans, marching bands, cheerleaders and lots of game action are just part of the spectacle that is the NFL. This week, photojournalists Lloyd Fox and Karl Merton Ferron photographed the Ravens as they beat the Carolina Panthers, 38-10, at M&T Bank Stadium.
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French adventurer and researcher Stephane Rousson prepares Aerosail, an innovative, efficient, and silent maritime vehicle, which uses only the wind as means of propulsion. Its unique principle of flight allows the user to pilot like a sailboat an airship linked by a cable to a stabilized keel, called the Seaglider. The cable acts as the mast and the airship as the sail. Rousson is planning his crossing for the end of October 2014. Text and photos courtesy of AFP/Getty.
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