Green Valley’s Phillips to return home Friday

Recovering Green Valley High School football and track athlete LaQuan Phillips will return to his home in Henderson on Friday after being treated at Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California in Sacramento, Calif., since Sept. 16.

Ensign promises to help reconstruct Nevada GOP

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign vowed Wednesday to resurrect the Nevada Republican Party, which has fallen into deep disarray and was overwhelmed by Democrats in this year’s elections.

Holiday centerpieces look great, taste better

With everyone feeling the pinch from the current economic situation, Kenneth Brown, a Los Angeles designer and the star of HGTV’s “reDesign” and TLC’s “Over Designed,” has come up with a simple, fast, affordable and edible way to decorate your table for Thanksgiving dinner.

Nutrient deficiency may be source of yellowing leaves

: I have 30-year-old citrus trees in my backyard on flooder/bubblers and I can’t tell if they are overwatered or underwatered? They were planted before I bought the house three years ago. The tangerines are green and splitting. The Meyer lemon seems healthy with new leaves on the lower branches but the leaves are turning yellow and I am not sure if it is due to fall.

It’s about time to respect the clock

Clocks are not top of mind for most of us. It’s only at this time of year when we turn our clocks back, and then again in the spring when we go forward, that we actually give them any thought. As an accessory and work horse in our lives, poor clocks are not given their fair share of attention.

Water softener installation a ‘know sweat’ project

: We are from California and just moved into a new house. The problem is that the water in Southern Nevada is different. My skin is dry and itchy right after a shower. I understand that a water softener is in order, so I bought one that uses salt at a home center and am ready to install it. Fortunately, we have a loop in the garage and I have sweated copper a few times before. Is there anything to look out for?

DECORATE TO MATCH LIFE’S MESSES

Debbie Wiener is an interior designer who cares about the cleaning-impaired, the decorating-challenged and those who would rather sit on furniture than protecting it from being sat on.

HOME BRIEFS

Mum Society’s show slated for Saturday

Rutledge striving to make impact

In case anyone has forgotten, four seniors — not three — are on UNLV’s basketball team. Mareceo Rutledge intends to ensure his presence is recognized this season.

‘This isn’t my first picnic’

This might be Paulie Malignaggi’s first time fighting in Las Vegas, but he insists he won’t be intimidated Saturday when he meets Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand Garden.

Weiss eyes one more title

In his four years as Moapa Valley’s starting running back, Brad Weiss has seen his team go from 3-7 to the brink of a second straight Class 3A state championship.

BCS sells out; we pay price

Unless you’re one of the dwindling millions who still get your television from rabbit ears, it probably didn’t register.

Pahranagat Valley seeks encore after 128-74 win

Pahranagat Valley football coach Ken Higbee said Tuesday he expects his team to be “playing our best football the last week of the season.”

All England, all the time

In honor of British junior welterweight boxer Ricky Hatton, who is in town to fight Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden, Leftovers brings news from home to Hatton and his supporters.

Perry a golfer in life, a driver at heart

There’s that child in all of us, that part that never seems to disappear, no matter how much a hairline retreats like a Long March into middle age or how many fewer belt holes are needed to support our trousers.

Kenny, Mustangs seek return to glory

Pat Kenny remembers going to Sam Boyd Stadium to watch The Meadows win the first of five straight Class 2A state football championships in 1997.

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

UNLV RECEIVERS CATCHING ON

The two compete in the November chill of football season and the triple-digit July heat of summer conditioning.

FISHING REPORT

* LAKE MEAD — Striped bass are keying in on shad. Anglers are seeing boils in the morning hours in the Vegas Bay arm and along the beaches from Hemenway to Boulder Harbor. They are catching stripers from 2 to 6 pounds and catfish as large as 5 pounds. To be legal, a shad net can have a radius no larger than 3 feet. The Nevada Department of Wildlife plans to stock rainbow trout at Hemenway, Boulder Harbor and Crawdad Cove on Friday.

Give some space to fellow enthusiasts

While fishing at Lake Mead recently, I couldn’t help but notice the crowd that squeezed together at the end of the fishing pier that reaches into Boulder Harbor, where Lake Mead Marina used to be. Where there was room to fit perhaps 10 anglers comfortably, I could see double that, and nearly everyone had at least two fishing rods. The situation didn’t look fun, but as time went by, it provided a few laughs.

Locals to run in Nike event

Several area runners will be competing at the Nike Cross Nationals Southwest Regional qualifier in Tempe, Ariz., on Saturday.

Murphy loses bid to have felony conviction reheard

CARSON CITY — The state Supreme Court has refused to reconsider its decision upholding Sandy Murphy’s conviction on charges of trying to steal $7 million in silver from the late Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion’s underground vault.

IN BRIEF

TROPICANA AVENUE

Union protests LV City Council

More than 100 Culinary union members disrupted a Las Vegas City Council meeting Wednesday, chanting, “No new city hall! No new city hall!” after a unanimous council vote to advance the project.

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