The drug companies that produced and sold the sedative linked to Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak provided large vials of medication to endoscopy centers despite their risk to public safety, a lawyer charged Friday.
Federal aviation officials say a plane landed safely in Las Vegas after blowing a tire while taking off from Fresno, Calif.
Developer Jim Rhodes, who filed last year for bankruptcy protection, paid $490,000 in back taxes Friday on the land he owns next to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
NEW YORK — David Letterman says the scandal surrounding his workplace dalliances initially “knocked him down” and left him depressed, but that now he’s putting the pieces of his life back together. During a guest shot on Friday’s “Live! With Regis and Kelly,” the CBS late-night star said his behavior was stupid and reckless, and that it hurt his family and himself.
In the same moment Deputy Ian Michael Deutch was gunned down in the parking lot of a Pahrump casino, his killer was stopped dead by four shots fired by a six-year veteran of the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
BURBANK, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would love to run for president – if he could. California’s actor-turned-governor was born in Austria and the U.S. Constitution prevents foreign-born citizens from holding the nation’s top job. Jay Leno asked Schwarzenegger on “The Tonight Show” Thursday if he would make a White House run if the law was changed. Schwarzenegger replied, “Without any doubt.”
LONDON — The next time Stephen Quake is prescribed a drug, he says he won’t worry about having a bad reaction. The Stanford University professor will simply consult his genome to see if there are any warning signs in his DNA.
NEW YORK — In his first post-“Tonight” show interview, Conan O’Brien said that if he had been in Jay Leno’s shoes, he would not have taken back the show less than a year after publicly handing it off to someone else. “That’s me, you know,” O’Brien told Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, excerpts of which were released Thursday by CBS. “Everyone’s got their own way … of doing things.”