LOS ANGELES — Charlie O’Donnell, the announcer whose voice opened “Wheel of Fortune” for decades, has died. He was 78. Agent Fred Wostbrock said Monday that O’Donnell — the voice of the game show even before hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White appeared — died late Sunday at his Los Angeles home. The cause was unclear.
An accord is close on new rules for street performers and the like at the Fremont Street Experience, and it appears the city of Las Vegas will not ban Hula-Hoops after all.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Randy Moss’s reunion with the Minnesota Vikings lasted 25 days – and three disappointing losses. Coach Brad Childress informed the players during a team meeting that Moss had been let go. The Vikings had waived the frustrated wide receiver less than a month after acquiring him in a trade with New England.
On the eve of the election, first lady Michelle Obama on Monday called U.S. Sen. Harry Reid a champion for the state of Nevada and people who are suffering under a dismal economy and urged supporters at a rally to re-elect him so Democrats can finish what they started when President Barack Obama won office two years ago.
LONDON — Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole.
MUMBAI, India — The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally. And not a single toilet or latrine for its 10,000 people. Yet nearly every destitute family in the slum has a cell phone. Some have three.
