Quick Takes: Garth Brooks wins suit

An Oklahoma hospital in Garth Brooks’ hometown must pay $1 million to the country singer because it failed to build a women’s health center in honor of his late mother, jurors ruled Tuesday.

Jurors ruled that the hospital must return a $500,000 donation to Brooks plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages in Brooks’ breach-of-contract lawsuit against IntegrisCanadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon.

Brooks said he thought he’d reached a deal in 2005 but sued after learning the hospital wanted to use the money for other construction projects. The hospital argued that Brooks gave it unrestricted access to the money and only later asked that it build a women’s center and name it after his mother, Colleen Brooks, who died of cancer in 1999.

—Associated Press

Shatner coming to the Pantages

William Shatner will be shifting into warp drive this year when he takes his solo Broadway show on the road for a national tour that will begin in Los Angeles.

The “Star Trek” actor will bring his comic show “Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It” to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for a one-night engagement March 10, his publicist said Tuesday. The show is a comic autobiography in which Shatner talks about his career.

Following a brief run on Broadway, the Pantages performance will be the first leg of a national tour.

Shatner, 80, has appeared in a number of TV series including “Star Trek,” “T.J. Hooker,” “The Practice” and “Boston Legal.”

—David Ng

Annie Leibovitz reinvigorated

Photographer Annie Leibovitz says she has come back from some dark days and revived her creativity with a new project now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington that marks a departure from her popular celebrity portraits.

Two years ago, Leibovitz was facing millions in debt and a mismanaged fortune that nearly cost her the legal rights to her own work, which includes some of pop culture’s most memorable images. The ordeal was a good lesson in managing her business, Leibovitz said, but left her “emotionally and mentally depleted.”

On Tuesday, she led a tour through the photographs she says renewed her inspiration with a few road trips through U.S. history. “Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage” include depictions of landscapes and people, but no faces. Instead, Leibovitz photographed historic objects and scenes, including the homes of “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott, essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, entertainer Elvis Presley and others.

—Associated Press

Merle Haggard back in hospital

Merle Haggard has returned to the Macon, Ga., hospital where he had been admitted last week with pneumonia for further treatment of that and other medical issues, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The 74-year-old country music legend reported that his double pneumonia is almost completely clear and that he also is recovering from three stomach ulcers, the removal of eight polyps from his colon and diverticulitis in his esophagus, spokeswoman Tresa Redburn said.

Haggard is expected to be “back up and running in 30 days,” she said.

The singer had been released from the hospital on Friday and was starting the drive back to his home in Redding, Calif., but realized over the weekend he hadn’t fully recovered and returned for additional treatment.

—Randy Lewis

Bolton Colburn goes surfing

Bolton Colburn, who recently stepped down as the head of the Laguna Art Museum after 14 years, has been named the executive director of the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente.

In his new role, Colburn will oversee an organization whose goal is to “preserve, present and promote surfing’s heritage.”

—David Ng