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SAN DIEGO — A diaper bag is a serviceable item with benefits. So is the cup holder in a movie theater seat. So is the string from which your sunglasses dangle.
Given what the Los Angeles Lakers accomplished during the playoffs last season, expectations are lofty heading into the 2008-09 NBA season. Andrew Bynum has a lot to do with the high hopes Lakers fans are clinging to.
The Democrats have been beating up on two vulnerable Republican state senators for weeks. The Republicans have done nothing to counter it. So others have stepped in.
A felony bad-check charge against suspended Las Vegas lawyer Jeanne Winkler was dismissed last month after she paid about $7,000 in restitution.
CARSON CITY — Likely voters by nearly a 3-to-1 margin favor passing a state constitutional amendment in November that would prevent governments from using the power of eminent domain to seize private property and then turn it over to developers, a Review-Journal poll shows.
CARSON CITY — Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., holds a commanding 13 percentage point lead over former state Democratic Party chairwoman Jill Derby in their rematch for the 2nd Congressional District seat, according to a new poll commissioned by the Review-Journal.
CARSON CITY — The two members of the judiciary running for seats on the Nevada Supreme Court lead their attorney opponents, but most voters have yet to make up their minds in the races, a Review-Journal poll shows.
GERLACH — The Gerlach-area’s only grocery store, a last stop for Burning Man festival participants on their way to the Black Rock Desert, has closed indefinitely.
A 22-year-old Las Vegas man died after being shot several times early Sunday near Charleston Boulevard and 17th Street, Las Vegas police said.