Wildcats seize lead after first day

The Las Vegas High wrestling team entered the Class 4A Sunrise Region tournament with No. 1 seeds from the Northeast League in all but four weight classes.

Silverado alone in first place

Foothill boys basketball coach Kevin Soares summed up Friday’s game at Silverado with one sentence.

Horse Racing

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

Only Wolfson unopposed

Except for Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Wolfson, who drew no opponents by the end of the filing period Friday, every council and mayoral seat in the Las Vegas Valley is being contested.

CORRECTION

A story in Friday’s Review-Journal incorrectly identified an inspection contract at CityCenter. Kleinfelder is inspecting the Veer tower. Converse Consultants holds multiple contracts, including inspections of the Aria towers.

Ensign sides with restrictions on aid

WASHINGTON — The Senate approved an amendment on Friday declaring that no money from the multibillion-dollar economic stimulus bill may be spent on recreation projects including museums, golf courses, aquariums or zoos.

Group rejects settlement with embattled Las Vegas doctor

A Las Vegas neurosurgeon who admitted to federal authorities he accepted a half-million dollars in kickbacks and committed perjury to help increase settlement costs for a personal injury attorney must come up with a different settlement proposal if he wants to retain his Nevada medical license.

Winter storm warning issued for Spring Mountains

Up to 2 feet of snow is forecast to fall on Mount Charleston this weekend in the first of several weather systems expected to move through the valley in the next several days.

Raggio presses Reid: ‘We can’t be required to give what we don’t have’

CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, complained Friday that the “so-called sound stimulus package” being debated in the U.S. Senate will be of little help to Nevada because the state must spend hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn’t have in order to qualify for key federal education grants.

Doctor guilty in death loses license

The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners revoked the medical license of Dr. Harriston Bass Jr. on Friday, 11 months after the physician received a life sentence on a charge of second-degree murder.

McCartney to help open Hard Rock Hotel venue

Paul McCartney will help inaugurate the new 4,000-capacity theater at the Hard Rock Hotel with a concert April 19. He joins The Killers on an opening weekend that shuttles both acts back and forth from the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

In Brief

11-MONTH-OLD BOY DIED

Area surgery center changes anesthesia strategy

Ambulatory surgery centers have come under increased scrutiny in the past year, since the announcement of an outbreak of hepatitis C at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.

Actors rehearse for their wedding

Sarah Shahi, whose acting career got a huge boost when she appeared in a steamy cameo with Tony Soprano, is getting married in Las Vegas today.

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