Injuries don’t thwart Gorman girls

Bishop Gorman’s only real moments of concern Thursday came nearly three minutes into the third quarter.

Gaels get defensive, oust Hug

Bishop Gorman boys basketball coach Grant Rice wouldn’t use Thursday’s game against Hug as an offensive template.

Classy Baffert merits unanimous induction

One name jumped off the page when I got my ballot for this year’s horse racing Hall of Fame inductions at Saratoga: Bob Baffert.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

IN BRIEF

TENNIS

Frozen assets burn ballplayers

Many professional athletes long have claimed they loved their respective sports so much that they would’ve played for nothing.

Mustangs get past Gorman

As his players stormed the field to celebrate amongst a mosh pit of fans, Shadow Ridge girls soccer coach Harvey Robicheau watched speechlessly from the sideline.

PETA presses Siegfried & Roy

If you’ve got the big Saturday night ticket, you will see Siegfried & Roy perform for the first time since Roy was mauled by a tiger onstage at The Mirage in 2003.

Charity work precedes race for NASCAR drivers

NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was among a handful of drivers who devoted part of Thursday to meeting fans, helping others and promoting this weekend’s racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Many of the day’s public appearances were charitable events.

Earnhardt prank was quite slick

If Dale Earnhardt didn’t win the race, it was rare that anyone beat him out of town.

Plan sounds death knell for Yucca Mountain project

Nevada’s congressional delegation praised President Barack Obama for making it clear in his budget outline Thursday that the Energy Department’s 20-year, $9 billion effort to study Yucca Mountain and seek a license for a nuclear waste repository there is on its last legs.

Bond issue pushed to cover budget shortfall

CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas assemblyman suggested Thursday that the Legislature float a bond to cover a budget shortfall of nearly $2 billion.

Sexual offender measure advances

CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that might make it tougher for convicted sexual offenders to be released from lifetime supervision but would reduce the amount of time offenders have to wait for a hearing on their release.

Plan for Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is to do more with less

The budget will be leaner, but the parks will be cleaner, at least when it comes to litter along roads and on public lands in Southern Nevada. That’s one of the aspects of the governor’s proposal for funding Nevada’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the next two years. A joint Senate-Assembly budget subcommittee is scheduled to review the department’s funding issues today.

Officials lament cutting mental health services

CARSON CITY — In testimony Thursday to Nevada lawmakers, state officials listed tough choices they face as a result of Gov. Jim Gibbons’ proposed cuts to mental health services.

IN BRIEF

FLAMINGO AND EASTERN

Couple charged in scams

A married couple who police say dedicated the past five years to duping valley senior citizens and Asian women out of more than $150,000 have been arrested in what’s known as a “pigeon drop” scam.

High court to decide appeal in Carlin rape

ELKO — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a Carlin man convicted in 1994 for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl should be granted a new trial because of questions involving DNA evidence and how it was presented.

Driver killed when car crashes into home

One person was killed after he lost control of his car and crashed into a home near the intersection of Sandhill Road and Wyoming Avenue early Thursday.

LEGISLATIVE BRIEFS

• Nevada lawmakers rather than the state Ethics Commission would handle any complaints against an Assembly or Senate member alleging an improper vote, under terms of a bill approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Stiles defense requests juror’s removal

An attorney representing Chester Stiles in his sexual assault trial asked that a juror be removed after a woman thought to be the juror’s daughter posted negative comments about the trial on a Florida-based Web site.

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