Britney Spears

OK, all you armchair physicists, wrap your pointy heads around this one: How do you make something disappear that was never really there to begin with?

Wranglers face crucial test at home

The last time the Wranglers played at home, they faced elimination in Game 7 of their Pacific Division semifinal series against Bakersfield, Calif., and responded with a 5-1 victory to advance in the ECHL playoffs.

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TENNIS

Dixon’s good fortune leads to IRL victory

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Scott Dixon took advantage of Ryan Briscoe’s tough-luck pit stop with 47 laps left, then held off Helio Castroneves down the stretch to win the Road Runner Turbo Indy 500 on Sunday.

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BASEBALL

51s toppled in 13-inning pitching duel

Eric Munson’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 13th inning Sunday lifted the Sacramento River Cats to a 2-1 Pacific Coast League win over the 51s in West Sacramento, Calif.

Pittsburgh takes ‘Tank’ in Round 5

Just before making it official, Pittsburgh Steelers running backs coach Kirby Wilson sent the Review-Journal a text message saying the club would select Frank Summers.

Actress suffers unwanted visitor

An intruder who entered a Las Vegas penthouse suite while “General Hospital” star Kelly Monaco was sleeping was quickly apprehended by police, a source said.

Fremont Street Experience plans 1969 theme

Forty years after the Woodstock music festival, downtown Las Vegas is looking for people who want to relive the groovy days of 1969.

Four Corners mistake recalls long border feud between Nevada, California

Surveyors acknowledged last week that the Four Corners monument is not located at the exact spot where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah come together, but disappointed tourists can look on the bright side: No one is likely to get shot over the discrepancy.

Businesswoman invests in nudity for Playboy

Alicia Taylor likes to pose nude. On page 40 of the new Playboy, she is lying sideways on a bed, curled up next to an Investor’s Business Daily and a very happy pillow. If you go to her house, you will see, on the walls, more evidence of her in-the-buff artistry.

Company tries to control pesky pigeons

A new company, Nevada Pigeon Control, aims to eventually rid the Las Vegas Valley of pigeons. Instead of killing them, the company has created a temporary sanctuary in an industrial area near Cheyenne Avenue and Commerce Street. The sanctuary is the brainchild of Nephi Oliva, a local musician and songwriter who got tired of all the pigeons coo-cooing outside his house.




Fighting the pigeon problem

Legislators pass on good government to follow their consultants

Once again, many Nevada legislators demonstrate that if they have to choose between what the voters want and what their political consultants want, about half side with the ones who brought them to the party: the consultants.

Reid shares details of Lieberman affair

WASHINGTON — Two days after the elections last November, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told Sen. Joseph Lieberman he would be stripped of his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship, punishment for trashing Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention.

Firefighters’ union refuses to cut pay raises

Some Clark County commissioners question why the firefighters’ union refuses to trim its pay raises the way other unions have in an impending budget crunch.

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SALARY SURVEY

Oh, those Washington jokers

To promote the development of alternative fuels, which unfortunately cost a pantload, Congress in 2007 expanded the tax credit for using non-fossil fuels, offering firms 50 cents a gallon to blend renewable fuels such as ethanol with traditional fossil fuels like diesel.

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