De La Hoya picks veteran trainer Beristain

Veteran boxing trainer Nacho Beristain will prepare Oscar De La Hoya for his Dec. 6 fight with Manny Pacquiao, De La Hoya confirmed Tuesday.

Reno’s Aces to begin play in Triple A next season

RENO — Owners of a minor league baseball team moving to Reno announced Tuesday that the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks will be named the Aces and begin the 2009 season in a new downtown stadium in April.

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Unheralded Mitchell catches Rebels’ eye

There are basketball recruits who arrive on campus with big reputations and four or five stars attached to their name, and then there is DeShawn Mitchell.

Speedo leaves Nike in its wake

It’s not often that Nike runs from a fight. But in the battle of high-tech swimsuits, give Speedo a victory by technical knockout.

Reid works on bill for UNLV, CSN land

WASHINGTON — The long-held ambitions of state education leaders to establish a North Las Vegas campus for UNLV would get a boost through a bill that was announced on Tuesday in Congress.

Halverson appears before grand jury

District Court Judge Elizabeth Halverson appeared exhausted as she sat in a wheelchair outside a courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

Property tax cap dies on the vine

CARSON CITY — In what is expected to be the death blow to the effort to put a measure before voters to cap property tax increases, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to disqualify the judge who ruled the measure ineligible for the ballot.

Sprinklers praised after two Strip fires

Two fires within 12 hours at separate hotel resorts on the Strip have local fire officials hailing the sprinkler systems that snuffed out flames before serious damage occurred.

GOP trio plans Nevada stops

RENO — President Bush is scheduled to be in Reno next week to address a conference on enhancing hunting opportunities and managing game species and their habitat around the country, a White House official confirmed Tuesday.

Nevada legislators skeptical about bailout plan

WASHINGTON — Nevada lawmakers are proving to be a tough sell for the Bush administration as it tries to persuade Congress to pass a $700 billion financial bailout plan.

State employee is arrested

A state employee was arrested on felony charges of misconduct of a public officer and using personal information for unlawful purposes, the state attorney general announced Tuesday.

Retiree health benefits threaten other programs, report says

CARSON CITY — If Nevada’s elected officials don’t act quickly to rein in the cost of providing subsidized health care to their retirees, then programs and services from education to public safety will suffer as more money is diverted to a benefit that has disappeared from the private sector, a new Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce study suggests.

Reopening: Next Week For H Street

This week readers want to know when H Street will be reopened at Bonanza Road; whether there is any way to fix the ramp meters that control traffic flow onto Interstate 15; and whether they are ever going to fix Stewart Avenue between Maryland Parkway and Las Vegas Boulevard.

Low turnout, some anxiety at event over UNLV cuts

The word “crowd” would be overstating Tuesday’s turnout at a UNLV event intended to help students figure out what budget cuts mean to them.

Tape details FAA’s efforts

Air traffic controllers at North Las Vegas Airport scrambled Aug. 28 to clear a runway for a pilot to land a plane with one of its engines on fire but lost contact with him shortly before he crashed into a house, an audiotape released Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration reveals.

Crash victim was general contractor

Floyd Brooks Williams III, president of Brooks Corp. general contractor in Las Vegas, and his wife, Diane, were killed in a small-plane crash Sept. 17 near Kremmling, Colo. They were both 51.

Man accused of injuring officer is arrested

Federal and local law enforcement officers on Tuesday arrested a 29-year-old man wanted for ramming his car into the vehicle of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer last week, injuring the officer.

Henderson slaying probed

A 23-year-old man was shot inside a townhouse Tuesday morning and later died at the hospital, Henderson police said.

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