Dean helps Trailblazers win Sunset quarterfinal

Josie Dean rallied to win the final three games of her third set Monday to lift visiting Durango to a 10-8 win at The Meadows in a Sunset Region quarterfinal match.

Smokey’s on Helio’s bumper

IndyCar champion Helio Castroneves showed some fancy footwork Friday in Miami — the kind he didn’t use to win “Dancing With the Stars” or display at a South Beach nightclub.

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HOA member calls response of state ombudsman’s office ‘inept’

In the glorified regulatory storefront operation called Nevada, Park Avenue condominium dwellers found they had a place to complain after they identified examples of apparent election fraud on their homeowners’ association board.

Moreno displays style, talent at UNLV

Even though I have followed Rita Moreno’s career pretty closely since she won the Oscar for 1961’s “West Side Story,” I was taken aback by the depth of her vocal talent in evidence Friday night at Artemus Ham Hall.

Judge: Attacker ‘gleeful’

Moments before husband Edward Halverson struck her with a frying pan, he had a “wicked, nasty” smile on his face, suspended District Judge Elizabeth Halverson told a grand jury.

LV begins belt-tightening

Las Vegas moved forward Monday with a package of cost-cutting measures aimed at balancing the city’s budget in five years while also avoiding layoffs, provided that employee unions and the city can agree on how to keep personnel costs from outstripping revenues.

Backers of tax cap try again

CARSON CITY — Proponents of a proposal to amend the state constitution to cap property taxes asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday to reconsider an earlier decision that kept the measure off the November ballot.

Hard-core fans ask: Has Jacko moved?

Michael Jackson fans who have been waiting for days outside his residence at West Palomino Lane are wondering if he’s beat it.

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CORRECTION

Three clues were accidentally omitted from Sunday’s Observer Crossword puzzle:

Experimental plane in crash built in 2003

The experimental World War II-type airplane that crashed Sunday near Sandy Valley, killing the pilot, was built by Robert L. Bonde in 2003, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

Mining tax increase touted

RENO — Taxes on mining in Nevada should be increased as a way to avoid future cuts in state spending, at least five speakers told a legislator Monday night.

Agencies asked to cut budgets

Department heads in Henderson have been asked to slash their budgets by 10 percent or more as the nation’s financial crisis comes crashing down on Nevada’s second-largest city.

Simpson case is far from finished

You “can expect the notice of appeal to be filed five minutes after sentencing,” O.J. Simpson defense attorney Yale Galanter said Sunday, demonstrating that a Clark County jury’s unanimous Friday guilty verdict against the former NFL star and movie actor — who now stands convicted of kidnapping and armed robbery — is not likely to mark the end of the case.

‘Prolonged’ crisis

Congressional passage Friday of a $700 billion bailout for the financial sector has yet to impress Wall Street.

BofA deal will help Nevadans

Some 11,000 Nevadans will keep their homes and avoid foreclosure under a tentative agreement between state officials and Bank of America Corp. announced Monday.

INSIDE BUSINESS

Architecture company moves to new location

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