Retirement deals costly blow to boxing

You won’t find Oscar De La Hoya listed near the top of any account chronicling the best boxers over the last century. He doesn’t belong close to the legends of Robinson and Ali and Armstrong and Louis.

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BASEBALL

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OLYMPICS

Golden age comes to end

Oscar De La Hoya said last week that people would be shocked by his announcement regarding his future. But his decision to retire Tuesday hardly could be described as shocking.

Wranglers eye crucial Game 3 against Condors

Every playoff game is important, but today’s is especially crucial for the Wranglers, who hope to avoid falling behind Bakersfield in the ECHL Pacific Division semifinals.

World Cup back on display

Some of the world’s most talented horses and riders have taken over the Thomas & Mack Center.

Cubs need heroes, not more goats

Steve Bartman should consider himself lucky, but the same can’t be said for goats in the Chicago area.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

IN BRIEF

woman finds husband dead

Searchlight justice dies after stroke

Wendell Turner, justice of the peace in Searchlight, died Tuesday of complications from a stroke. He was 72.

Interstate 15 work halfway done

This week readers want to know when the construction on Interstate 15 parallel to the Strip is going to end, what’s happening on St. Rose Parkway in Henderson and what’s the easiest way to get from U.S. Highway 95 to I-15 north.

State tree may be doomed

RENO — A new study by researchers at the University of Arizona suggests that a combination of global warming and drought could prove exceptionally deadly to pinion pine, Nevada’s state tree.

Event starts Reid’s pursuit

They turned out in droves for Barack Obama in 2008.

Now Harry Reid hopes those Democratic voters will turn out for him in 2010.

Reid is running for re-election, and Tuesday night marked the kickoff of his organizing effort: About 300 supporters attended a rally and barbecue put on by the state Democratic Party to hear him speak, ask him questions and eat free hamburgers in a downtown office building.

New schools scrutinized as finances continue to tighten

Six new public schools are supposed to open in the fall, but Clark County School Board member Sheila Moulton wonders whether it might be better to “mothball” some of them because of the dire financial circumstances.

Bank president talks a good game, but troubling signs abound

For months, ominous financial clouds have boiled up across the valley’s once sunny banking fraternity, but on Monday, Community Bank of Nevada President Edward Jamison made it clear his hand was steady and the financial institution he captains was riding out the economic storm of the new century.

Same-sex bill in cross hairs

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that he will veto the domestic partnership bill giving same-sex couples the same legal rights as married couples if it passes both houses of the Legislature.

Seat belt debate gets emotional

CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers and witnesses gave emotional testimony Tuesday on a bill that would allow police to stop any driver they believe isn’t wearing a seat belt.

Husband of woman struck, killed by car gets $2 million

CARSON CITY — The state Board of Examiners agreed Tuesday to pay $2 million to the husband of a woman killed in an accident involving a Las Vegas police officer’s spouse.

CORRECTION

A headline in Tuesday’s Review-Journal about the Caylee Anthony murder case was incorrect. It should have read : Mom of Caylee Anthony may face death penalty.

Crash of spy plane investigated

Air Force investigators are probing the crash of a Creech Air Force Base-assigned unmanned MQ-9 Reaper spy plane that went down March 20 during a training mission over Fort Irwin, Calif., an Air Combat Command spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.

OUR BLOGGERS ARE SAYING…

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Terminal care

Attempting to restore both morale and fiscal sanity to a county hospital whose previous gang of Chicago operators face indictments for misappropriation of funds — a public hospital still hemorrhaging cash and thus requiring taxpayer subsidies at unacceptable levels — new University Medical Center CEO Kathy Silver and her management team had some tough cost-cutting decisions to make late last year.

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