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'America's Got Talent' ventriloquist winner gets Vegas gig
- The puppet-toting second-season winner of NBC's "America's Got Talent" is getting a new gig - a headline show replacing a Las Vegas legend.Ventriloquist and impersonator Terry Fator, who won $1 million last year by impressing judges in the television variety contest with portrayals of Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole and Kermit the Frog, is expected to be introduced Tuesday as the new headline act at The Mirage. CBS agrees to air World Series of Golf tournament in June
- Organizers of an amateur golf tournament with rules loosely based on poker say they have signed a multiyear deal with CBS to air the event on the network.The World Series of Golf will be played this week at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, with dozens of amateur players betting on their strokes with poker chips. House panel to review federal workplace safety agency
- The leader of a House panel said it planned to review a federal agency in charge of ensuring workplace safety this summer after recent construction deaths in Las Vegas and other major cities.Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., said a workforce protection subcommittee will review whether the safety standards of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are adequate and being followed. Lawmakers get budget cuts
- A package of budget cuts was submitted Friday to Nevada lawmakers by Gov. Jim Gibbons, who's trying to cope with a projected revenue shortfall that could approach $1 billion by mid-2009 and lead to staff cuts and layoffs.The budget cuts were forwarded to legislators who can either let them take effect or approve them at a meeting of their Interim Finance Committee. That panel is scheduled to meet June 26. Toni Braxton's Las Vegas show to remain dark until June
- Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month.A spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment says the target date to resume "Toni Braxton: Revealed" at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel is now June 6th. Governor discusses tax plan
- Gov. Jim Gibbons could support a deal that would result in higher room taxes rather than increased casino taxes - but only if Nevadans backed the idea in an advisory ballot question, a spokesman said Friday.Gibbons press secretary Ben Kieckhefer said that without the voter support, the governor would stick with his policy of opposing any new or increased taxes. That would include room taxes, paid mainly by tourists visiting Nevada. Nevada judge accused of demanding royal treatment
- Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen.Her former bailiff, for example, says Halverson made him feel like a "houseboy." He says the judge - who is obese and uses a motorized scooter to get around - made him put her shoes on her feet, massage her back, cover her with a blanket for naps and make sure her oxygen tank was filled. He says she asked him, "Do you want to worship me from near or afar?" Casino win is down
- A soft economy continued to cut into winnings of Nevada casinos during March as the clubs won $1.04 billion for a 1.5 percent decline compared with the same month a year earlier, a state report showed Friday.The slump was the third consecutive monthly decline statewide. A market-by-market breakdown in the Gaming Control Board report showed a similar month-over-month decline for the Las Vegas Strip - and the ninth consecutive monthly slump for the Reno-Sparks-North Tahoe area. 77 more hepatitis cases may trace to clinic, officials say
- Seventy-seven more people who were treated at a Las Vegas outpatient clinic have been diagnosed with hepatitis C, health officials said.Authorities can't say for sure how the 77 people were infected, said Brian Labus, senior epidemiologist with the Southern Nevada Health District. But they know each was treated from March 2004 to Jan. 11 this year at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. Gov's divorce case now in Reno
- A judge on Thursday approved a request from Nevada first lady Dawn Gibbons, hit with a divorce complaint from Gov. Jim Gibbons, to have the couple's closed-door divorce trial moved from Carson City to Reno.Carson City District Judge Bill Maddox noted in his order that the governor didn't oppose the venue change to Washoe County District Court. |
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