HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

Writer big fan of Maddux

• It’s possible Greg Maddux will pitch beyond this season because he has said nothing about retirement plans.

Green Valley ousts Coronado

To Green Valley’s Matt Harrison, Tuesday was just another day.

Plante faces battle to earn playing time

UNLV defensive end Luke Plante was in excellent position to win a starting job last year but injured his right kneecap in training camp, ending his season before it began.

Athletic lineage leads Jones to UNLV

On campus for the first day of summer school, Chris Jones walked into the UNLV football locker room.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

51s fend off Zephyrs, end three-game slide

The 51s halted a three-game losing streak, rolling to a 9-5 Pacific Coast League victory over the host New Orleans Zephyrs on Tuesday.

Justice out-raises opponent in election

CARSON CITY — Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Gibbons has raised more than $316,000 for his re-election campaign in the past seven months, a report filed with the secretary of state’s office shows.

Farmers affected by water level in Lahontan Reservoir

FALLON — The water level in the Lahontan Reservoir is only half of normal and getting lower all the time, forcing some farmers who depend on the water to irrigate their crops to forgo planting all their available fields.

Great Basin College offers some buyouts

ELKO — Great Basin College is offering longtime employees voluntary buyouts as a cost-saving measure that may help avoid layoffs that are on the table in the face of an additional 14.5 percent cut in state spending.

Maheu’s life filled with adventures

A rumor was circulating in mid-February that Howard Hughes’ loyal lieutenant, Robert Maheu, was ailing. With Maheu, all you had to do was pick up the telephone and call him.

College looks at more savings

Layoffs, closures and a hiring freeze. And still, Nevada State College can’t keep up.

Judge denies charges

The fight between suspended District Judge Elizabeth Halverson and her accusers turned into a brawl Tuesday when she took the witness stand and angrily denied the charges against her.

Projections for Yucca revised

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy on Tuesday issued new cost estimates for a Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository that would be bigger, would operate longer and would cost billions of dollars more than earlier planned.

Political treasure

Mementos of campaigns past are on display at convention at the Riviera.

Murder charge not the first for LV suspect

The man charged with murdering a 17-year-old girl and mutilating her body so she wouldn’t be identified has faced murder charges before.

Payments approved

Landowners have won settlements totaling $160 million from Clark County for airspace restrictions that kept them from building on their properties.

Suspect in strip club shooting enters plea

The Washington man accused of firing shots during a strip club brawl that ensnared professional football player Adam “Pacman” Jones claimed Tuesday the All-Pro cornerback fingered him to boost his chances of being reinstated to the NFL.

Hughes captain Maheu, 90, dies

Robert Maheu, who served as Howard Hughes’ right-hand man, spied on Germans in World War II and worked on a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, died Monday night of an undisclosed illness. He was 90.

CORRECTION

The name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader was misspelled in a headline on Page 2B of Tuesday’s Review-Journal.

IN BRIEF

SPRING POINT APARTMENTS

Reid starts trip, visits Kyrgyzstan

WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid disclosed Tuesday that he was in Kyrgyzstan, on a Senate-organized trip to central Asia and Europe focused on terrorism and climate change.

Obama’s energy policy

It’s not so important how individual presidential candidates stand on a single, isolated issue — how many people remember what stances Kennedy and Nixon took on the islands of Quemoy and Matsu? Instead, what’s important is the sense voters get for what kind of firm, underlying principles guide a candidate’s decision-making.

Meanwhile …

Secretary of State Ross Miller says he can’t certify for the ballot an initiative to restrict property taxes until it survives a legal challenge by the state teacher union.

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