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13 Nov 2003 Ccc Finds Trop Stable Enough To Relicense ATLANTIC CITY – Tropicana Casino and Resort is financially strong enough to weather an undetermined delay of its major expansion project, the Casino Control Commission said Wednesday in awarding the casino a four-year license renewal. Read Story

12 Nov 2003 Trop Opens Skywalk, Other Half Of Garage ATLANTIC CITY – Tropicana Casino & Resort took another step toward normalcy Tuesday afternoon, when authorities allowed the casino to reopen thewalkway over Pacific Avenue and the other half of its parking garage. Read Story

9 Nov 2003 Workers Sensed Danger Before Collapse Of Parking Garage They are construction workers, not engineers or safety experts. But George Tolson, Norman Williams and John Pietrosante Jr. found themselves focusing on a common thought: something unsafe or at least unsettling was going on as they rushed to complete a ... Read Story

7 Nov 2003 Tropicana Reopens Its West Tower ATLANTIC CITY – A week after Tropicana’s garage collapse, the casino’s600-room West Tower and one parking lot reopened to the public at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, a few hours after the last victim of the fatal incident was laid to rest. Read Story

6 Nov 2003 Acmc Met Crisis As Professionals I have always been proud to tell people I am registered nurse. I have always been proud to tell people that I work at Atlantic City Medical Center. However, I have never been more proud than I am after experiencing ... Read Story

6 Nov 2003 Crews Continue Work At Tropicana Collapse Site ATLANTIC CITY – Construction crews continued to chip away at the remnants of a l00-foot-tall wall Wednesday at the collapsed parking garage at Tropicana Casino and Resort. Read Story

5 Nov 2003 Hundreds Mourn Workers Killed In Tropicana Collapse Hundreds of grieving family members, friends and fellow union members said goodbye Tuesday to two young victims of the Tropicana parking garage accident in separate funerals in Northfield and Vineland. Read Story

5 Nov 2003 Demolition, Traffic Moving Slowly In A.C. ATLANTIC CITY – As the demolition job on the Tropicana’s collapsed garage moved slowly ahead Tuesday, traffic in town did the same for several hours after an accident caused a fuel spill just a block from the accident site. Read Story

4 Nov 2003 Fund To Benefit Victims Of Tropicana Collapse ATLANTIC CITY – Mike Wittland was killed and his son, Ed, fell five stories and broke his neck during last week’s garage collapse at the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Read Story

4 Nov 2003 Old Parking Garage, West Tower Reopen At Tropicana ATLANTIC CITY – Given a temporary green light. Hundreds of Tropicana Casino and Resort employees and customers scattered through the West Tower hotel and the selfpark garage Saturday and Sunday to retrieve their cars and belongings. Read Story

4 Nov 2003 Campaign Trail Makes A Stop At Scene Of Tragedy ATLANTIC CITY -What do a dog named Spike, Don King and a few slow-moving campaign trucks have in common? Read Story

4 Nov 2003 After Days Of Wait, Demolition Begins ATLANTIC CITY – An ironworker climbed out of a crane basket at 2 p.m. Monday and onto a 100-foot-tall wall towering above the pit created last week when five floors of the Tropicana Casino and Resort’s new parking garage collapsed. Read Story

3 Nov 2003 For Area Around Collapse, Eerie Quiet ATLANTIC CITY – As the family of Robert Tartaglio Jr., one of four construction workers killed in the Tropicana Casino and Resort garage collapse, said goodbye to their loved one in a funeral service Sunday evening, an eerie calm temporarily ... Read Story

2 Nov 2003 Home’s Where The Clothes Are, Not The Family ATLANTIC CITY – Joseph and Gilda Milano want to go home. But because their home is sandwiched between the collapsed parking garage at the Tropicana Casino and Resort and the Brighton Towers complex, authorities won’t let them. Read Story

2 Nov 2003 Work To Clear Wreckage Might Restart Monday ATLANTIC CITY -Work to demolish portions of the Tropicana Casino and Resort parking garage, which collapsed last week killing four construction workers and injuring at least 20 others, was put on hold and will not proceed until Monday, officials said ... Read Story

1 Nov 2003 The Memory Will Last A Lifetime ATLANTIC CITY – Some had seen worse in the basement of one of the Twin Towers days after the Sept. 11,2001, terrorist attacks. Some might even see worse in the future, while doing a job that takes the guts and ... Read Story

1 Nov 2003 Tropicana Collapse Delays Plans For Another Garage ATLANTIC CITY – Plans for a $20 million parking garage at the foot of the Atlantic City Expressway were put on hold Friday so that designers can analyze the catastrophic collapse at the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Read Story

1 Nov 2003 Nothing Certain For Hotel Visitors ATLANTIC CITY – Fred and Ruth Valastro left Tropicana Casino and Resort for the bus back to South Glens Falls, N.Y., with an uneasy feeling: Their luggage remained behind in a hotel tower still closed by authorities. Read Story

1 Nov 2003 Bigelow Was ‘Best Husband And Father’ The collapse of the Tropicana’s parking garage took the lives of four local men James Bigelow was 29. He and his wife, Joleen, would have celebrated their second wedding anniversary Nov. 17. Read Story

1 Nov 2003 Resorts’ Construction Site Quiet After Trop Collapse ATLANTIC CITY – There were the sounds of jackhammers and some heavy equipment, and the red construction elevators slowly moved up and down the building. Read Story