Toyota engine problem costly to Busch, others

Kyle Busch will lead a backward parade of Toyotas during the start of the Shelby 427 Sprint Cup race today at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Needles embraces Russells as family

The telephone was going to ring. T.C. Russell knew it as sure as he knew his name. It was going to ring, and he was going to answer, and life immediately would become more chaotic than the streets of Pamplona with a bunch of bulls running through.

IN BRIEF

BOXING

Spring Creek nets third crown in four years

Spring Creek placed four players in double figures as the Spartans rolled to a 69-42 win over Lowry for the Class 3A girls state title at the Orleans Arena on Saturday.

Rutledge finally in tune

Singing is one of UNLV senior Mareceo Rutledge’s secret talents. He’s not planning an “American Idol” audition and he’s not signing up for any karaoke displays, though.

NEON This Week

Magna-Fi playing at Wasted Space

CHAPEL OWNERS HOPE WEDDINGS STAY HERE

There’s this segment from the “What Happens Here, Stays Here” ad campaign: A slightly dazed woman says a tender but incredulous goodbye to a younger man she just spontaneously married.

Lawmakers to look at stimulus

CARSON CITY — Lawmakers start their fifth week of the 2009 session on Monday with a review of the nearly $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funds coming to Nevada and debate on how much it will actually reduce a huge state revenue shortfall.

Top News

The trial of Chester Stiles began Monday, and the week ended with jurors watching a 15-minute videotape that authorities say shows Stiles sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl.

Police say man killed woman, self

A domestic violence call turned deadly Saturday morning when a man charged with murder in California and a woman were found dead in a home in the northwest valley.

Reporters’ Notebook

SOME WEDDING CHAPEL OWNERS HAVE HAD IT with the city’s ubiquitous “What Happens Here” campaign. They think the hedonistic message may discourage couples from getting married in Las Vegas.

STRIP HEADS SOUTH

It’s been almost a decade since Anthony Marnell III worked in a Las Vegas casino. Much has changed during that time. But then again, thanks to the current economic meltdown that has zapped consumer spending and sent gaming revenues spiraling downward, some aspects of the gaming business have reverted to years past.

THIS WEEK

MONDAY

Siegfried & Roy answers on ’20/20′

The one-hour “20/20” special Friday on ABC about the return of Siegfried & Roy will clear up “a lot of the rumors and misconceptions of what Roy can do and can’t do,” the show’s executive producer says.

Stimulus will give state budget boost

CARSON CITY — Total spending by Nevada state government actually would increase by $1 billion under the governor’s proposed two-year budget with the infusion of federal stimulus money, according to an analysis by a conservative think tank.

IN BRIEF

LAS VEGAS-CLARK COUNTY

Hepatitis C patients wait, hope

Even when exhausted from treatment with interferon, a potent substance sometimes capable of beating back hepatitis C, 61-year-old Gwendolyn Martin has to take medication to help her sleep.

SAY WHAT?

“This is a strong statement by Boyd Gaming to double down on the locals’ market.”

Buckled up

For Nanny Staters, the socialization of public services is the gift that keeps on giving: As politicians pile more financial obligations on taxpayers, more intrusions and restrictions on personal liberties can be justified as necessary to control those increasing “public” expenses.

A closer look at university system cuts

For more than a year, Chancellor Jim Rogers has been screaming from the tops of the university system’s ivory towers that Gov. Jim Gibbons is beyond irrelevant. The budget-cutting Republican is a political Neanderthal, a public official so loathed and isolated by his own repugnance that he makes Richard Nixon seem cuddly by comparison.

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