Gov. Brian Sandoval’s Monday address got mixed reviews from members of a focus group recruited by Strategic Solutions, a consulting firm, for Impact Nevada, a collaboration of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, 8NewsNow and Vegas PBS.
LOS ANGELES — “The King’s Speech” claimed the crown for best film at the Producers Guild of America Awards on Saturday, knocking off Golden Globes best drama winner and presumed Oscar front-runner “The Social Network.”
PHOENIX — Bret Michaels is undergoing a procedure in Phoenix to close a hole in his heart. Doctors discovered the hole in the rocker’s heart in April while treating him for a brain hemorrhage.
The Transport Workers Union lost its bid to organize a dozen flight dispatchers at Allegiant Travel Co., the parent of discount flier Allegiant Air.
Dennis Oppenheim, the artist behind the neon paintbrushes downtown, died Saturday. He was 72. The Las Vegas paintbrushes sit unlit on Charleston Boulevard at the intersections of Casino Center Boulevard and Fourth Street. They were one of Oppenheim’s final projects but went unfinished as he quietly battled liver cancer.
CHICAGO — An emotional Oprah Winfrey says that one of the most impressive things about a Milwaukee woman’s discovery that the two are half-sisters is that the woman never tried to take advantage of her or sell her story. On “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired Monday, Winfrey announced that she was related to a woman identified only as Patricia. She says Patricia had known the two were related since 2007, but never went to the media or otherwise publicized her discovery.
LOS ANGELES — Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans’ retirement age. The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised – and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same – right up to the end at age 96. LaLanne died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay on California’s central coast. The cause was respiratory failure due to pneumonia.
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