HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

One win shy of 2008 total, Lady Rebels aiming higher

It was early in the season, and UNLV women’s basketball coach Kathy Olivier was fretting that her team’s progress was occurring not by leaps, but mere baby steps.

Ignorant outsiders dismiss MWC

T en years later, the Mountain West Conference welcomed 2009 by having the most significant week in its history, or at least since anybody 10 miles beyond the Wasatch Mountains didn’t need rabbit ears to watch The Mtn.

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

TV viewing enters another dimension

Proud of that new $1,200 high-definition TV you just bought? Think technology can’t get any better?

Utah weighs suit against BCS

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after an unbeaten Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years.

Hot Razorbacks top No. 7 Texas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Texas coach Rick Barnes can think of one way to improve the Big 12.

IN BRIEF

COLLEGES

Lake Mead rescues OT win over Faith

Faith Lutheran boys basketball coach Bret Walter called it “one of the best comebacks” in his 12 years at the helm.

Utah perfect choice for No. 1

This isn’t about sending a message to the Bowl Championship Series.

Fuel costs expected to stabilize

Consumers can expect the fuel market’s newfound sanity to stick around for a while, according to energy analysts.

Indigent defense still falling short, court panel says

Despite judicial efforts to improve indigent defense, public defender systems in Nevada fail to meet constitutional standards, members of a Supreme Court commission said Tuesday.

Oklahoma bomber’s son pleads not guilty

The troubled son of convicted Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he stole a motorcycle in Las Vegas.

Serenity returning to Henderson in March

This week readers want to know about the construction on Serene Avenue in Henderson; when Grand Montecito Parkway in the northwest valley is going to be opened; and what route will the F Street protest march take through downtown this morning?

Report shows spending rose

CARSON CITY — When the economy tanked, you tightened your belt and hunkered down. The state tried to do the same, cutting back on what it had planned to spend.

Cop charged in theft found in Las Vegas

DECATUR, Ala. — An all-out search for a missing Alabama organized crime specialist led to Las Vegas, where the decorated officer was arrested and accused of staging his disappearance to cover up the theft of $2,500 from his department, authorities said Tuesday.

Four arrested in Henderson on kidnapping allegations

A drug-related kidnapping in North Las Vegas led authorities from multiple agencies on a hunt that ended in Henderson with the arrest of four suspects Tuesday.

Titus takes office to ‘get things done’

WASHINGTON — Dina Titus took her seat as Nevada’s newest federal representative Tuesday as Congress opened a new session in which lawmakers mingled celebration with reminders of the slumping economy they hope to fix.

WEDDING SCHOOL BELLS

She first laid eyes on him on “Project Runway” and couldn’t look away — except, well, she had to, because her Hot Pocket was burning in the microwave.

Nevada Guard gets call

More than 630 Nevada National Guard soldiers will leave in the spring for Afghanistan in what will be the largest overseas deployment of a group of citizen-soldiers from the state since World War II, the unit’s commander said Tuesday.

CORRECTIONS

A story on judicial discipline in Tuesday’s Review-Journal incorrectly identified a judge removed from the bench. The judge was Jeff Sobel.

IN BRIEF

DEATH OF EX-OLYMPIAN

Power play

The embarrassment for Democrats that is the Illinois Senate seat has become the gift that keeps on giving for amused Republicans.

Middle East turmoil

Israeli troops and tanks have invaded Gaza, the coastal strip of land south of their country, inhabited almost entirely by Muslim Arabs who speak the same colloquial Arabic as the Egyptian residents of the Sinai.

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