Generally speaking, money is tight

First General Motors cut ties with Tiger Woods. Now the troubled automaker is splitting with the Bronx Bombers.

Rougeau makes grade again

On every step of a journey that has been anything but easy, UNLV senior Rene Rougeau found strength in his support team. He did not have to walk alone.

Lake Mead win may prove costly

Landon Littlefield was glad to be on the court again, pumping his fist after sinking two crucial third-quarter 3-pointers.

Mosley doping reports prompt probe by WBC

The World Boxing Council has opened an investigation of Shane Mosley after recent reports that the boxer testified under oath to taking performance-enhancing drugs in the lead-up to his 2003 title fight against Oscar De La Hoya, the New York Daily News reported in Tuesday’s edition.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

Holiday tourneys to begin

The holiday tournament season kicks off today with the start of the Bishop Gorman Holiday Classic.

THE HOT CORNER

TODD DEWEY review-journal, 45-30-1 (overall record)

Johnson puts hype, humor into Wranglers

The more I am around Billy Johnson, the more I’m convinced he was the kid in school who orchestrated the prank in the girls’ locker room and then glanced disapprovingly at a classmate when the principal asked the perpetrators to step forward.

IN BRIEF

HOCKEY

Mother sues Boyd Gaming

The mother of a worker killed at The Orleans casino in a sewer incident is suing Boyd Gaming.

Elevation changing for fireworks show

This year’s New Year’s Eve theme for “America’s Party,” as organizers have dubbed Las Vegas’ celebration, is “Takin’ It to the Streets.”

Valley residents air financial trials

Nevadans told members of a congressional panel Tuesday that the $700 billion Wall Street bailout has not filtered down to help the victims of the current economic crisis in one of the nation’s hardest hit areas.

Foliage removed for widening

This week readers want to know what happened to the shrubbery that was removed from Interstate 15 near Lake Mead Boulevard; who is Raphael Rivera and why was the Frontage Road along the Las Vegas Beltway in the southwest named for him; and are there any alternate routes to Southern California instead of waiting for the blasting on I-15 to finish? And the Road Warrior eats some crow after his favorite football team lost Sunday.

County to test unpaid leave plan

Clark County employees can take three-day weekends for the next month without using any vacation time.

Judge suspends doctors’ licenses

A judge has suspended the licenses of three physicians and prohibited them from practicing medicine in Nevada pending a medical board disciplinary decision scheduled for early next year, officials said Tuesday.

Second body in burned car ID’d

The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the second body found last month in a burned-out car in the desert as 25-year-old Martin Martinez Jr.

Hearings to focus on closure of schools

The legacy of the rural, one-room schoolhouse could end with the budget ax in the Clark County School District.

IN BRIEF

suspect sought

County hears report on UMC budget

The amount of money coming into University Medical Center increased in fiscal year 2008, according to an audit by the accounting firm Percy Bowler Taylor & Kern.

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