ECHL: WRANGLERS WHIP THUNDER IN GAME 7, ADVANCE

The Las Vegas Wranglers beat the Stockton Thunder 5-1 in Game 7 of the Pacific Division finals tonight at the Orleans Arena to advance to the National Conference finals for the second straight season. Goalie Glenn Fisher stopped 41 of 42 shots for the Wranglers, who took a 2-0 lead in the first period and never trailed.


Las Vegas will face the top-seeded Alaska Aces in the conference finals, with Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-7 series scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage.

Chargers secure postseason berth
Chargers secure postseason berth

A line drive off her left shoulder in the first inning and another off her leg in the sixth inning weren’t about to stop Elisa Dawson on Tuesday.

ON TV/RADIO
ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF

BASKETBALL

HORSE RACING
HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

Gouldsmith sees signs of progress

By the end of the baseball season, UNLV coach Buddy Gouldsmith might be ready to run a marathon. He seemed to be training for one Tuesday night, repeatedly trotting from the dugout to the mound to change pitchers.

Tragedy could bind Cowboys

The playoff bubble burst for the bickering Dallas Cowboys late last season. But that wasn’t nearly as tragic as Saturday’s collapse of the Cowboys’ air-filled practice facility.

Wranglers pray for lucky 7

Each team got here by virtue of a Game 7 victory, so it’s fitting the Pacific Division finals will be decided by a seventh game between the Wranglers and the Stockton Thunder.

Fans blue over loss of Dodgers on radio
Fans blue over loss of Dodgers on radio

One e-mail was followed by five. Same with voice messages. It has been a small but steady flow of complaints since the first major league pitch was thrown this season.

Foreclosure bill shifts to Senate
Foreclosure bill shifts to Senate

CARSON CITY — Her bill wouldn’t help every person behind on home mortgage payments, but Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley said Tuesday that analyses show it could keep 17,700 Nevada families from losing homes to foreclosure.

Reid bill seeks to bring doctors to Nevada
Reid bill seeks to bring doctors to Nevada

WASHINGTON — A bill that seeks to bring more doctors-in-training to Nevada and other states with physician shortages was introduced in Congress on Tuesday.

Energy agency change criticized
Energy agency change criticized

CARSON CITY — Officials from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission and state Energy Office raised concerns Tuesday over a proposal by state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford to put the energy agency under the PUC.

Mourners gather for Gans’ funeral

Danny Gans‘ family and friends gathered early Tuesday for a small, private funeral at an undisclosed Palm cemetery.

New recycling routines tested

Last year Republic Services launched a pilot program to introduce some customers to once-a-week trash pickup and recycling and gauge their reactions.

Nineteen subdivisions and an estimated 8,634 households are participating in North Las Vegas and unincorporated areas of Clark County. Another 19 subdivisions with 4,231 households are expected to join the pilot program by summer.

Four officers’ quick response honored

Four Las Vegas police officers received the first of two awards Tuesday recognizing their performance in a June 2008 police chase that turned deadly. … Metropolitan Police Department officers Jason Hansen, Christian Jackson and Russell Laws and Sgt. Steve Custer received the Unit Meritorious Service Award. … They will receive a second accolade next week in the nation’s capital.

IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF

CITY CLERK’S OFFICE

County commissioners give up cost-of-living raise for year
County commissioners give up cost-of-living raise for year

Clark County commissioners voted to forgo a 4 percent cost-of-living raise for a year, saying they want to set an example to county employees being asked to take smaller pay raises in the tough economy.

Man arrested in September slaying

DNA evidence might link a 28-year-old man to the slaying of a Las Vegas man whose body was found at the victim’s home during a fire last year, a police report obtained Tuesday said.

In Nevada, stop always means stop

This week, readers want to know is it sometimes wrong to stop at a stop sign and whether you have to register a car just because you own it, and the Road Warrior answers an off-the-road question that really has nothing to do with streets, valley construction or state law.

Teachers might file lawsuit
Teachers might file lawsuit

CARSON CITY — Despite a commitment from legislators to reduce proposed pay cuts, leaders of the state and Clark County teachers unions said Tuesday that they still might file a lawsuit against the state or school districts on the grounds that public education has not been adequately funded.

Gold mine evacuated after flash
Gold mine evacuated after flash

RENO — Newmont Mining Corp. safely evacuated dozens of miners from an underground gold mine in northeast Nevada on Tuesday after an electrical flash triggered an emergency response.

A real BLM ‘stimulus’ proposal
A real BLM ‘stimulus’ proposal

The Interior Department is directing more than $300 million in federal “economic stimulus” money to the Bureau of Land Management to update its facilities, roads and trails and jump-start renewable energy projects across the country, said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who performed like a trained seal here Saturday.

Regulatory reform
Regulatory reform

Lawmakers at all levels have delegated a great deal of their authority to an unelected bureaucracy. After legislators in Washington, D.C., or Carson City pass the laws, it is up to an army of career functionaries in the executive branch to actually write the rules and regulations required by the statutes.

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