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'Casino' executive found dead at home

A Las Vegas resort executive featured on the Discovery Channel's American Casino reality show was found dead in his home. Foul play was not suspected.

Michael Tata, 33, was vice president of hotel operations at Green Valley Ranch Station and was part of the team that launched the show, which goes behind the scenes of a casino. It airs at 8 p.m. Friday.

Tata was found at his Henderson, Nev., home Tuesday, and autopsy results were pending, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said Friday. American Casino's 13-episode first season, in which Tata has often been shown butting heads with his colleagues, has episodes scheduled to air through Aug. 6.

Two tow truck drivers were arrested and accused of beating up a former star of Donald Trump's TV hit The Apprentice and her fiance, officials said. Donald Seay, 27, and his brother Daniel Seay, 24, were charged with aggravated battery in the June 27 incident, North Miami Beach detectives said.

Katrina Campins, a contestant on the NBC show, and her fiance, Ben Moss, had their Acura towed from a Sunny Isles Beach strip mall parking lot by Seay Towing, according to police reports and interviews.

Campins and Moss took a cab to the towing company's center in North Miami Beach, and a fight erupted.

Campins suffered a broken nose, swollen eye, and leg scrapes, while Moss needed stitches for a split lip, Grossman said.

When country music star Alan Jackson was young, his father used to drive to work up Interstate 85.

Eugene Jackson died four years ago, but Alan Jackson says he would be mighty proud to see that same highway named for his son.

More than five miles of I-85 were named for Alan Jackson on Friday, a stretch through his native Coweta County south of Atlanta.

Two hundred Newnan locals turned out to see Jackson unveil the new road sign.

"I'm sure he never imagined his son's name would be on a highway," a grinning Jackson told the crowd.

"Over the years, I've had horses and dogs and even children named after me, but this is definitely the most honorable thing."

Jeff Smith, a white-bearded minister who became public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" before a sex scandal ruined his career, has died, his business manager said Friday. He was 65.

Smith died in his sleep Wednesday, Jim Paddleford said. He had long suffered from heart disease.

The Frugal Gourmet became the nation's most-watched cooking show, but was taken off the air after seven men in 1997 filed a lawsuit alleging they had been sexually abused by Smith as youths. Smith denied the allegations and was never charged with a crime. He and his insurance companies paid an undisclosed sum to settle the suit.