NEW YORK – Alec Baldwin, a star of NBC’s “30 Rock,” was examined Thursday at a hospital after his daughter called 911 saying he had threatened to take pills after they argued, a law enforcement official said.
LONDON – Can you really be bored to death? A commentary in the International Journal of Epidemiology says it’s possibile the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early.
Citing the loss of title sponsorship from sports shoe and apparel producer Reebok, ever-increasing facility costs and the general overall economic condition of the country, tournament officials today announced they will no longer be able produce the annual Summer Championships, the nation’s most prestigious elite boy’s prep tournament held each July in Las Vegas.
CHICAGO – A Toyota executive said Wednesday that dealers have so far reinforced the sticking accelerator on more than 220,000 recalled vehicles, with repairs continuing at a rate of about 50,000 vehicles a day. “Nothing is more important to Toyota than the safety and reliability of our vehicles, and right now we are completely focused on fixing the vehicles that have been affected under this recall,” Bob Carter, Toyota group vice president and general manager, said at the Chicago Auto Show.
Slot machine giant International Game Technology said Thursday it will close its operations in Japan later this year.
In his return home to Las Vegas, Darington Hobson helped New Mexico earn a monumental road victory that for a long time appeared as if it would come too easily.
State and local agencies will lose millions of dollars in oversight money and more than two dozen jobs if Congress follows through with the Obama administration’s plan to zero out funding next year for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project.
Fans have to wait a year to see the show, but not to buy tickets for Celine Dion’s long-expected return to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace next year.