LOS ANGELES — Poison frontman Bret Michaels thought a burglar shot him in the back of the head when he suffered a brain hemorrhage last month that left him in intensive care for nearly two weeks. The outspoken 47-year-old contestant on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice” told People magazine that the subarachnoid hemorrhage “sounded like a handgun, like it literally popped.”
While MGM Mirage isn’t planning to publicly try its dispute with Perini Building Co. over payment of $500 million in CityCenter construction costs, company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Murren doesn’t want to lose the perception battle either.
As the 2-week-old Gulf Coast oil spill lingers offshore, the slick is endangering and shutting down key commercial fishing spots that supply the shrimp, crab and oysters that grace restaurant menus across Southern Nevada. Some purveyors say they’ve already seen costs jump, as restaurateurs, grocers and other buyers begin to snap up existing seafood supplies sitting frozen in warehouses.
Two upsets and a dramatic finish in the Sunrise Region boys 3,200-meter relay final highlighted the opening day of the regional track and field preliminaries Wednesday at Del Sol.
The 51s piled up 10 runs over the final two innings, rallying from a 6-3 deficit, to beat the host Reno Aces 13-7 on Wednesday in a Pacific Coast League game.
For the next four days, Las Vegas sits at the center of the culinary universe.
Chaparral hasn’t punched its ticket to the Sunrise Region baseball playoffs just yet.
As a journalist since the ’70s, much of my early experience with FBI agents, with a few notable exceptions, has involved two terse words: “No comment.”
