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MMA fighter tries to honor late dad

If not for his late father, Efrain Escudero wouldn’t have competed in Season 8 of “The Ultimate Fighter.”

Steady Adams back in saddle in team roping

If Randon Adams wasn’t a team roper, he might be able to make a living handling dynamite, nitroglycerine or a surgeon’s scalpel.

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

‘Nick Saint’ doesn’t seem interested in characters

Producer Craig Ruff’s original musical “Nick Saint” will perhaps please those desperately looking for a show that their kids might enjoy — providing the kids’ exposure to good theater has been limited.

Unpaid leave option proposed

To trim labor costs in the face of a tightening budget, Clark County leaders plan to offer employees voluntary unpaid leave in a five-week experiment.

City dances to new rhythm

Even the stodgy reverend in “Footloose” had a change of heart just before the credits rolled. Why should Henderson officials be any different?

IN BRIEF

SOME URGED TO STAY INDOORS

Headliner’s head hurt, report says

Las Vegas headliner legend Paul Anka suffered a head wound that required two staples to close it as the result of a domestic scuffle last month, according to a celebrity Web site.

Regents OK future budget cuts

After refusing in August to submit a slashed budget for the next two years, the university system Board of Regents on Friday recommended a method the governor could use to make the cuts himself.

Economic rescue panel to hold LV hearing

WASHINGTON — The expert committee created by Congress to monitor the government’s $700 billion attempted rescue of the nation’s financial system will hold its first field hearing in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Mortgage forum aids customers

It was going fairly well for Victor King at one point. His house in the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley was appraised at $800,000 and business, at a company that tracks vehicles using GPS devices, was good.

Ensign to Bush: Reject deal

WASHINGTON — The White House should “stand up and show some courage” by rejecting a last-minute request for loans to tide over the distressed U.S. auto industry, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said Friday afternoon.

CORRECTION

A story in Friday’s Review-Journal about a woman being sentenced in a fatal stabbing at Bally’s misidentified the woman who was impregnated by her pimp. The woman impregnated by her pimp was victim Taleasha Jamerson, according to Jamerson’s mother, Keitha Bradley.

Past catches up with man

William Merritt is no stranger to the legal system.

Lines of people seeking aid long

They line up hours or even a day in advance, fighting the late-night and early morning cold and sometimes each other.

Meadows athlete captures Heisman

Brett Leibowitz is still relishing a state football championship less than a month old.

CSN police chief removed

The College of Southern Nevada’s campus police chief has been removed from his job and replaced.

Woman sentenced in death

KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her husband in northwest Arizona was sentenced Friday to four months in jail.

Foster parents maintain hope for Native American baby they want to adopt

Rebecca and Edward Shoemaker have been foster parents for 35 newborns the past five years and were described as “a phenomenal family, a phenomenal resource” for Clark County Department of Family Services. He’s a Las Vegas police officer; she’s a stay-at-home mom who was adopted as a newborn herself. Married for 22 years, they’ve raised a son, 20, and a daughter, 15.

‘Cruel hoax’ jolts state offices

Envelopes containing white powder were delivered to state offices in Las Vegas and Carson City on Friday, prompting evacuations, decontamination procedures and a lockdown. The substances inside were ultimately found to be harmless.

Courtyard at restored school to be named for LV historian

A courtyard at the restored Fifth Street School in downtown Las Vegas has been named in honor of Frank Wright, the late historian known for his infectious enthusiasm for local history and historic preservation.

Home on the range

The BLM announced Friday that it plans to round up nearly 2,000 Nevada wild horses — in areas south of Battle Mountain and Gerlach — so they can be taken off the range and readied for adoption or long-term confinement.

IN BRIEF

Station Casinos again extends deadline

Bank plans charge-off

Western Alliance Bancorporation, the $5.2 billion-asset holding company for Bank of Nevada and other banks, intends to charge off as much as $77 million because of investments that went bad.

SMALL-TOWN APPEAL

Las Vegas boosters want a tiny town to help solve a big problem.

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