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Ex-51s second baseman leads Tacoma to sweep

Kevin Howard haunted his former 51s teammates Friday night in helping the Tacoma Rainiers cap a four-game Pacific Coast League series sweep in Tacoma, Wash.

IN BRIEF

NBA

City salaries to face review

Las Vegas is moving forward with a review of salaries and benefits for city employees, something that hasn’t been done since the mid-1990s.

Woman dies in I-15 crash

A woman died after the motor coach she was riding in Friday blew a tire, authorities believe.

Pickens pushes plan to wean U.S. off oil

WASHINGTON — T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire Texas oilman and financier, predicted Friday that his ambitious plan to refocus U.S. energy policy on alternatives such as wind and natural gas soon will become a major issue for the presidential candidates.

Historic church to undergo seismic retrofit

VIRGINIA CITY — One of Nevada’s oldest churches will undergo a $2.1 million seismic retrofit to keep it from being destroyed by an earthquake.

Suspect agrees to be extradited

KINGMAN, Ariz. — The man who has admitted killing a former Olympian in Las Vegas has waived extradition in northwest Arizona to return to Nevada to face prosecution.

Barry Becker Jr. dies of aneurism

Barry Becker Jr., whose family developed the Charleston Heights area of Las Vegas in the 1950s, died Tuesday at age 38 from an aneurism.

District girds for opening day

Working as a white-water rafting guide in the Grand Canyon was good preparation for the classroom for first-year English teacher Nate Haldeman.

CHINESE GO CRAZY OVER MASCOT DOLLS

I don’t care much for mascots beyond the dancing tree at Stanford, which is just bizarre enough to hold my attention for more than a second.

Group warns: Climate will fuel wildfires

RENO — Wildfires are projected to burn twice as much land in Nevada and other Western states by late this century if the climate warms as expected, a conservation group said in a report.

40/40 Club buzz may mean a sale

Those persistent rumors that hounded Jay-Z‘s 40/40 Club at The Palazzo since it opened New Year’s Eve may finally have come to fruition.

Testimony ends in Halverson case

After two weeks of hearings and more than a year on suspension, embattled District Judge Elizabeth Halverson will have to wait a few more weeks before learning her fate on judicial misconduct charges.

Source: RNC panel rejects dueling Nevada delegations

Citing flaws in the selection process, a Republican National Committee panel on Friday recommended that neither of Nevada’s two dueling delegations be seated at the party’s convention in September.

Ethics hearing hits snag

CARSON CITY — A planned Sept. 11 Nevada Ethics Commission hearing on a complaint filed by Democrats over a property tax break for Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons was complicated Friday when one commissioner, a former state Democratic Party chairman, recused himself.

If only all the choices on the ballot could be this difficult

For those of us who find state politics compelling and significant, the four-way race for an open Nevada Supreme Court race was downright thrilling as the numbers trickled in Tuesday and the lineup of winners and losers flipped and flopped.

Unemployment up statewide

The Las Vegas jobless rate worsened by three-tenths of a percent, reaching 6.8 percent in July — more than 1 percentage point higher than the national average, the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation disclosed Friday.

Plaza work delayed until ’09

Plans to build the Las Vegas version of New York’s Plaza Hotel have been postponed, a spokesman for the project’s owners told The Wall Street Journal.

IN BRIEF

SAN FRANCISCO

Mental health experts offer aid in tough times

Home foreclosures and rising unemployment have battered the local economy, and dealing with financial crisis has led more people to turn to professionals for help.

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