Much-decorated French chef Pierre Gagnaire, who expanded his restaurant empire to Las Vegas in December, likes to describe his creations as “emotion on a plate.”
LOS ANGELES — Her husband says Zsa Zsa Gabor underwent successful surgery Monday to replace the hip she broke over the weekend when she fell out of bed at her Bel-Air home. Prince Frederic von Anhalt says the 93-year-old actress was in surgery for 3 1/2 hours at Ronald Reagan UCLA medical center. In a telephone call, he said she was in recovery and he was waiting to see her.
LOS ANGELES — Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” is anything but a sleeper as the thriller opened big with $60.4 million and a No. 1 finish at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. action tale about a team that sneaks into people’s dreams is DiCaprio’s biggest opening weekend, topping his previous best of $41.1 million for last winter’s “Shutter Island.”
ATLANTA — Poverty is perhaps the most important factor in whether inner-city heterosexuals are infected with the AIDS virus, according to the first government study of its kind. The study, released Monday, suggests that HIV is epidemic in certain poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods.
Reno police said two people were killed and four injured Sunday in a head-on collision.
Authorities said an 18-year-old Boy Scout from Wisconsin has died after falling 100 feet from a rock formation in Utah.
The Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs is hosting an open competition for professional artists interested in painting a portrait of departing Gov. Jim Gibbons.