Eagles end Crusaders’ postseason reign

The Faith Lutheran boys basketball team opened its final season in Class 3A with designs on a fifth straight state title.

Aggressive Clark pours in 51

It’s usually a bad idea to change your formula for success, especially in the postseason.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

Loyd prevents Gaels’ ouster

Someone was going to face harsh reality Thursday. Either top-ranked Bishop Gorman or defending Sunset Region champion Cheyenne would suffer the end of its season without reaching the boys basketball state tournament.

Silverado, Bonanza prevail on state lanes

All season, Silverado’s boys and Eldorado’s girls thought they were the best high school bowling teams in the state.

Recession hurting tournament handle

This is prime season for horse handicapping tournaments in Las Vegas. Today we’re into the second day of the Horseplayer World Series at The Orleans.

Ace won’t duck challenge

When his son, Tyler, set out for college, John Anderson gave him three goals.

Clumsy hockey fan gets payoff

Dustin Dibble isn’t the first hockey fan who might have had too much to drink. But he might have been the first to get hit by a subway train, lose a leg in the process and win $2.33 million from a jury.

IN BRIEF

BASKETBALL

Patriots upend Vikings

When Jade Washington drove the lane Thursday in the final minute of Liberty’s Sunrise Region quarterfinal game, teammate Amanda Delgado knew she was about to become a hero.

ON TV/RADIO

BASKETBALL

Legislators spotlighting outbreak

CARSON CITY — Southern Nevadans can testify about their experiences with the hepatitis C outbreak during a special legislative meeting at 8 a.m. Saturday in room 4401 of the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.

Senate vote upholds 2007 veto of tax hike

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons got his wish Thursday when state senators unanimously upheld his veto of a bill passed in 2007 that would have allowed rural counties to raise property taxes to construct juvenile detention facilities.

CORRECTION

The current lead singer for Skid Row was incorrectly identified in today’s Neon. Johnny Solinger is the featured singer for the band.

Red Flag exercise to boost military jet traffic

Military jets will be roaring out of Nellis Air Force Base for the next three weeks during a special Red Flag air combat exercise at the 15,000-square-mile Nellis range.

Californian says Reno police violated civil rights

RENO — A Sacramento, Calif., man says he was trying to catch a bus when he was jumped by Reno police and Tasered for refusing to let them take his picture as police searched for witnesses to the shooting of an officer.

Grieving family sues Henderson police

Haunted by the fatal shooting of his wife by Henderson police, ice cream truck driver Zyber Selimaj is seeking $25 million in damages from those he holds responsible for his loss.

Card-counting application for iPhones sees sales spike

Nevada gaming regulators hoped to freeze sales of a blackjack card-counting application for iPhones by telling the world the software could convert the high-tech phone into an electronic cheating device.

Marrow donor drive honors boy, 10, lost to leukemia

Sunrise Children’s Hospital is hosting a marrow donor drive today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in honor of Brandon Rayner, a 10-year-old Las Vegas boy who died Dec. 24 of leukemia.

Legislative panel backs delaying prison projects

CARSON CITY — Told that the state’s prison population is lower than expected, members of a Senate-Assembly budget panel said Thursday that they would like a delay in new prison construction and an end to plans to shut down an old prison and an inmate camp.

Police: Man shot, killed had two guns

For the second time in less than a week, a gun-toting man was fatally shot by Las Vegas police after they said he ignored orders to disarm.

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