Erik Scott, who was described by Las Vegas police as “kind of going berserk” before he was fatally shot by officers in front of a Costco store on Saturday, did not appear out of control to one witness who saw the man interacting with store employees.
LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson is heard allegedly acknowledging that the actor hit the mother of his 8-month daughter in a recording released by a celebrity news website. In the recording a voice sounding like Gibson is heard telling Oksana Grigorieva that she “deserved” to be hit.
Las Vegas industrial broker Brian Riffel is seeing property come back onto the market at one-third the price it was sold three years earlier, a perfect illustration of how the commercial real estate market is taking a hit like housing.
CHICAGO — Hugh Hefner’s offer to take Playboy Enterprises Inc. private drew the promise of a competing bid on Monday from the owner of archrival Penthouse magazine. That raises the possibility that Playboy’s 84-year-old founder could lose control of the men’s magazine he started more than half a century ago. Playboy, which Hefner launched in 1953, had its most popular years in the 1970s and has been struggling recently to stay profitable.
ATLANTA — Alas, here’s more proof that most people have habits that aren’t very sanitary – and sometimes can be plain disgusting. For a study, medical students secretly watched hundreds of people cough or sneeze at a train station, shopping mall and hospital in New Zealand. They saw most people failing to properly prevent an airborne explosion of infectious germs.
BERN, Switzerland — The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony about Polanski’s sentencing procedure in 1977-1978.
