LOS ANGELES — Shoppers can boldly go where no man has gone before when “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry’s collection of personal effects and show memorabilia go up for auction. Hand-annotated scripts, costumes from the show and Roddenberry’s own studio pass are among the items available at the June 27 auction at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
LOS ANGELES — Doctors plan further testing to help pinpoint the source of the brain hemorrhage that is keeping Bret Michaels in intensive care, according to the rocker’s website. A report from doctors is expected this week. The website doesn’t say where Michaels, 47, is hospitalized.
The songwriting passion is returning, says Garth Brooks, who’s itching to “get the wheels rolling and get going.”
CARSON CITY — A restored train car is returning to the rails in Carson City, 100 years after it made its debut in northern Nevada.
SPARKS — A trapper who caught a cat and a skunk at a busy park has touched off a debate over Nevada laws that don’t prohibit animal traps at municipal parks.
RENO — Police said a Nevada man took a 10-week-old infant from a house in the Reno suburbs while the baby’s mother slept.
Bennett ended up as one of more than a couple dozen authors of a paper on the creation of what’s being called element 117, which was announced publicly earlier this month. The paper was recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
WASHINGTON — A day after bipartisan support for an energy and climate change bill appeared to crumble, a Senate sponsor said Sunday that he was optimistic the coalition would regroup and lawmakers would consider the measure this year.
PHOENIX — An Arizona congressman urged the Obama administration on Sunday not to cooperate when illegal immigrants are picked up by local police if a tough new state immigration law survives legal challenges.
“What do you do when you come up empty?” Eagles singer/multi-instrumentalist Don Henley wondered in song early on during the band’s lengthy show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night. “Where do you go when the party ends?”
RENO — Before he became Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens chased a dream of being a timber baron on the shores of Lake Tahoe. But his hopes went up in smoke when he accidentally started a wildfire while cooking over a campfire.
What has 9,000 members, is top secret and has the potential to help decide the outcome of Nevada’s 2010 elections from the top U.S. Senate race to city and county level contests?
National advocates for the homeless said a new Las Vegas program that spruces up old parking meters to collect money for the city’s homeless will be ineffective. But local supporters said any amount of money will be helpful.