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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 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

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

1 Nov 2003 A Time For Prayer, Evacuation, Demolition ATLANTIC CITY – It was 7 a.m. Friday when rescuers carried out the body of the last construction worker trapped in the rubble of the collapsed Tropicana parking garage, nearly a day after the disaster that left 20 injured and ... 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 Shops Near Collapse Suffer ATLANTIC CITY – Nobody picked up laundry Friday at Vince Hwang’s Brighton Cleaners on Atlantic Avenue. Usually a popular dry cleaning destination for Topicana Casino and Resort guests and employees, it was empty the day after the fatal parking garage ... 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

31 Oct 2003 An A.C. Tragedy This image will be seared in the memories of many in Atlantic City: the jagged, sloping, pancaked floors of a parking garage that had held hundreds of construction workers before five stories collapsed suddenly Thursday morning. Read Story

31 Oct 2003 Many Guests Stuck In AC ATLANTIC CITY – Tom and Patty Bock were playing slots at Tropicana Casino and Resort when something caught their eyes. “We saw some workers just booking it across the floor. You could see it in their eyes something was really ... Read Story

30 Apr 2003 Victims Families Describe Anger; Hurt Over Trop Collapse ATLANTIC CITY – There were tears. There were profanities. Four families torn apart, women left without husbands, children left fatherless, when the top five floors of the l0-floor Tropicana Casino and Resort garage collapsed as workers poured cement on the ... Read Story

17 Dec 2002 People Paper People Philly’s titan of torts, lawyer, Bob Mongeluzzi, has rocked the ski industry with a blockbuster lawsuit against Blue Mountain Ski Resort in Palmerton. Pa., over allowing kids to ski without head protection. Mongo (who handled the Penn gene therapy case ... Read Story