Rosenthal, who once survived a car bomb, ran the Chicago mob-owned Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda and Marina casinos through the 1970s and into the mid 1980s. Although Sports Illustrated once crowned him as the greatest living expert on sports ...

Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal — sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gambling executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie "Casino" — died Monday. He was 79. He died from a heart attack in his Miami Beach condo, a fire-rescue ...

MIAMI (AP) _ Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal — sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gaming executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie "Casino" — died Monday. He was 79. He died from a heart attack in his Miami Beach condo, a fire ...

MIAMI (AP) - Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal - sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gaming executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie, "Casino," - died Monday. He was 79. A fire-rescue spokeswoman says he died from a heart attack in his ...

An architect's illustration of the Marina District that received the "green light" from the city Tuesday. After four years of discussions, the Marina District is a reality. City Commission approved the development agreement Tuesday night on its ...

Photo: Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal gives testimony before the US Senate in 1961. He appeared before a Senate hearing on gambling and organized crime during which he invoked Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination 38 times - and kept his ...

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Casino revenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, posted the biggest monthly decline since gambling started there in 1978 because soaring fuel and food costs left U.S. consumers with less money for entertainment. In September ...

Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, the former Las Vegas casino boss who inspired the character Sam "Ace" Rothstein in the movie "Casino," has died. He was 79. A Miami Beach Fire-Rescue spokeswoman says Rosenthal died Monday at his Miami Beach condo. Rosenthal ...

ATLANTIC CITY - This seaside resort is facing its biggest crisis in the 30 years since it gambled its future on casinos. The casinos that provide the crowds and the luster for this old town will report their September revenues tomorrow, and it is ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.— The city's 11 casinos experienced their biggest monthly drop in revenue ever in September. The amount of money they won from gamblers plunged 15.1 percent from the same month a year ago. That made it the biggest one-month ...