Subway security exposé stopped

A federal judge ordered three college students to cancel a Sunday presentation at a computer hackers’ conference where they planned to show security flaws in the automated fare system used by Boston’s subway.

NBA stirs China’s passion

BEIJING — The first thing you see when passing through baggage claim at the airport here is Starbucks. The next thing is Kentucky Fried Chicken. They are signs of how for decades now China has embraced Western culture, and how the decision for a Communist Party to eagerly welcome a market economy has transformed the lifestyle of generations.

Another QB goes to safety

ELY — UNLV assistant Vic Shealy doesn’t need to jump on airplanes to find safeties.

Ronaldinho finds plenty of Chinese pen pals

Ronaldinho, whose two goals against New Zealand on Sunday helped propel Brazil into the quarterfinals of the Olympic men’s soccer tournament, caused a stir even among Chinese police when he and the rest of the Brazilian players arrived in Shenyang.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

UCLA transfer orally commits to join UNLV

In early May, after Chace Stanback announced he was leaving the UCLA basketball team, he received a call from a friend.

QUICK HITS

MEDALS TABLE

Math test challenges spur effort

Clark County School District students overwhelmingly failed their end-of-semester math exams, but scored high enough on state standardized tests to meet the benchmarks of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Money flowing from top of party

Sean Fellows, a Republican running for state Assembly, is running against April Mastroluca, but looking at Mastroluca’s campaign finance report, you might think Fellows is running against the entire Democratic Party.

Air Force training sorties are set for Nevada desert

The Air Force was expected to start military training exercises above the Nevada desert with pilots from India today, marking another step in relations between the two countries that have steadily improved since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

IN BRIEF

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

NEW JUDGE, TRIAL AND INDICTMENT

Robert Kahre — a Las Vegas businessman charged with federal tax crimes that could put him in prison for the rest of his life — gets a new judge for his second go-round, thanks to a maneuver rarely successful for criminal defendants in federal court.

Republicans stay for shadow session

Try to say it fast three times: Summer shadow session. Summer shadow session. Summer shadow session.

CORRECTION

A photo caption accompanying a Sunday Review-Journal story about GOP presidential hopeful John McCain’s Saturday address at a national veterans convention misidentified the Disabled American Veterans group.

Killers stake it all on ‘Do or Die’ CD

The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers might not agree with the critics on the success of “Sam’s Town” but he’s not downplaying the importance of their latest CD: “Do or Die.”

‘They have a lot to be proud of’

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Jim Kelly is a math teacher by trade and a baseball coach on the side. Judging by the reaction of his Paseo Verde Little League team of Henderson to Sunday night’s heart-wrenching loss, Kelly is teaching his players more than how to hit the cut-off man.

Warning sounded for Sierra lake fish

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A popular Sierra lake’s trophy-sized fish are threatened by a drastic drawdown of its water level needed for dam repairs.

Casino, retail workers injured in LV bus crash

A bus carrying Primm casino and retail shop employees crashed on Interstate 15 Sunday night, sending dozens of injured passengers to area hospitals, including four who were in critical condition, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.

The bureaucracy backs down

It was on their fourth album, “I Think We’re Also Bozos on This Bus,” that the Firesign Theatre formulated Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: “If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.”

Animal rights terrorists

Police recently found pamphlets at a Santa Cruz, Calif., coffeehouse that listed the names and home addresses of scientists who use animals in their experiments. “Animal abusers everywhere, beware. We know where you live,” the pamphlets read.

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