LOOKING COOL

Need a break from the oppressive summer heat? Consider indulging in a tall, cool Italian soda.

CORRECTION

A photo caption in Tuesday’s Nevada section was in error for the story headlined, “Las Vegan first to try cancer drug.” The caption on page 5B should have read: Randy Irwin, 50, provides instructions to Damyn Chipman, 13, and Andrew Larsen, 12, with the cap, before an activity at Laser Quest on Saturday. Irwin, who has kidney cancer, recently learned an experimental treatment did not stop tumor growth.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT del mar

Lakers rookie working for spot

As a second-round draft pick, Joe Crawford knows nothing is guaranteed as far as having a future in the NBA.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Interest wanes without Woods

Something is missing from the British Open, and it’s not tall weeds or the threat of foul weather. Obviously, it’s Tiger Woods.

No dogs allowed for dining

Visitors to the Summer Games in Beijing next month will be disappointed if they were looking forward to dining on fido foo young or chow chow mein.

Buckley term limits ruling to be separate

The Nevada Supreme Court determined Tuesday it would rule separately on the term limits case involving Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley.

County approves lobbyists

Two hired guns will lobby on behalf of Clark County government and District Court judges at a combined cost of about $220,000 yearly.

Ad highlights Obama’s nonproliferation bill

A new campaign ad airing in Nevada and other states highlights Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s work to reduce the threat from nuclear weapons smuggling.

A Well-Earned Break

If Dennis Phillips had his way, he would have retreated to his hotel room early Tuesday morning and caught a few hours of sleep. The 53-year-old commercial trucking company manager would have then got up, put on a clean shirt, returned to the Rio and sat back down in his seat behind a growing stack of tournament chips at the World Series of Poker’s final table.

Hearing scheduled for 2009 on water

CARSON CITY — A hearing will be held in late 2009 on a bid by the main water supplier for Las Vegas for another 16 billion gallons from a valley on the state’s border with Utah.

Toy noise annoys

Imagine the sound of several lawn mowers, all operating at the same time in your backyard.

Judge schedules hearing in Gibbons divorce case

CARSON CITY — District Judge Francis Doherty has scheduled an Aug. 21 management conference to allow Gov. Jim Gibbons, first lady Dawn Gibbons and their lawyers to discuss what progress has been made in their divorce case.

Immigration arrests reported

RENO — U.S. officials say 42 people were arrested around Lake Tahoe during a recent sweep by immigration agents.

Child death investigation rules issued

A county task force on Tuesday released a set of guidelines for how law enforcement and child protective services are to investigate child deaths.

House panel criticizes overdue response plan

WASHINGTON — An emergency services director from Nevada on Tuesday sought to assure anxious members of a House subcommittee that the Department of Homeland Security and state officials are cooperating to meet the communications needs of first responders in case of disasters.

Porter lags in second-quarter fundraising

Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., posted disappointing fundraising over the past few months, taking in less campaign cash in the second quarter of 2008 than during the comparable period in the last two election cycles.

Yucca Mountain cost estimate tops $90 billion

WASHINGTON — The projected costs to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, ship used radioactive fuel to Nevada from around the country and operate the site for 100 years have grown to more than $90 billion, an energy department official said Tuesday.

LV may offer chance to violators

The average parking violation in Las Vegas sets a driver back $50, which makes the current $9.8 million in unpaid tickets and fines fairly eye-popping.

Curtain falls on flying body parts

Life is going to be a whole lot duller for 14 musicians who spent 18 months avoiding flying body parts while playing for “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” which closed Sunday at Wynn Las Vegas.

I-15 lane reduction initiated

The mighty headache that was to be Tuesday morning’s commute after southbound Interstate 15, north of the Spaghetti Bowl, was reduced to two lanes, didn’t turn out to be a migraine.

Interchange opening moved up to 2010

This week readers want to know when the new Las Vegas Beltway interchange with Lake Mead Boulevard is going to open, are sound walls going to be erected on both sides of the Beltway at Desert Inn Road, and what exactly do “when children are present” school signs mean? And we learn about a personalized licence plate that will save one valley driver from being pulled over by police if O.J. Simpson makes a break for it during his upcoming trial.

IN BRIEF

STRIP PROJECT

Ignoring the court

It’s been barely three weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment, tossing the District of Columbia’s strict ban on handgun ownership as an unconstitutional infringement on the individual right to bear arms.

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