Garth Brooks unretires, lands Las Vegas gig

After eight years off, Garth Brooks has announced he is unretiring to play quarterback for the Oakland Raiders again.

Oh, that was Aaron Brooks. Sorry. Garth Brooks is unretiring to add to his trail of country music hits.

"We're going to take the retirement roof off over our head, and I already feel taller," Brooks, 47, said in a press conference Thursday at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.

Brooks announced an extended engagement at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas starting Dec. 11, but says he has no plans to tour.

He retired in 2001 to spend more time with his three daughters, the youngest of which is now 13. He married fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood in 2005.

YES, MY FRIENDS, SHE HAS BREASTS: Meghan McCain was trying to joke on Twitter about how she was "getting old" because she was spending the evening with an Andy Warhol biography.

But the photo she accompanied the Tweet with Wednesday revealed cleavage up to her clavicle, and the Republican columnist's followers acted as if she had said something nice about MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., then ran the gamut from threatening a Miley Cyrus Twitter abandonment to apologizing — and presumably swathing herself in her rattiest bathrobe.

"So I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing, but apparently anything other than a pantsuit, I am a slut," she Twittered, per the New York Daily News. She had on a spaghetti-strap tank top that seemed to compress her breasts as close to her throat as possible.

Next: "I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment." She promised to sleep on it.

Finally, contrition: "I do want to apologize to anyone that was offended by my twitpic," McCain wrote Wednesday. "I have clearly made a huge mistake."

SWIFT REVENGE: Guess who's hosting "Saturday Night Live" Nov. 7? Taylor Swift, whose best female video win two months ago at the MTV Video Music Awards was MUCH to the chagrin of Kanye West.

The rapper might as well prepare himself for another heaping serving of crow.

"I've been thinking about skit ideas for a long time," country star Swift, 19, says. "There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits."

Mum's the word, alas, but she hopes to collaborate with cast member Andy Samberg on a digital short music video.

REPORT — COCAINE DIDN'T KILL BILLY MAYS: An independent medical examiner's evaluation on television pitchman Billy Mays' autopsy refutes that cocaine contributed to his sudden death in June.

"Chronic cocaine use was not demonstrated by the autopsy findings of Mr. William Mays," reads the report by Dr. William L. Manion. "In addition, there is nothing in his medical, social or professional history to suggest chronic cocaine use."


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N. Las Vegas police plan increased DUI patrols

LAS VEGAS—North Las Vegas police say they will spend Sunday looking for drunken drivers.

Police announced Wednesday that they'll conduct a saturation patrol in a few major areas in North Las Vegas on Sunday, the day after Halloween.

Officers will conduct traffic stops and look for drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

The extra patrols are being funded by a grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety.

The patrols will be in effect from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.


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