Coats good fit in leadoff role

Before this season, his 10th in professional baseball, Buck Coats never had batted leadoff.

IN BRIEF

BASKETBALL

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Suddenly, sports world all a-Twitter

The United Way is following me, even though I gave at the office. So is UNLV Athletics, but that’s probably just the athletic director’s way of being funny.

Slice will fight on reality show

Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has been one of the harshest critics of Kimbo Slice, the street fighter-turned-aspiring professional mixed martial artist.

A long wait for interchanges

This week, readers want to know if there are plans to build an interchange at Starr Avenue and Interstate 15 in the southern valley, and if the DMV doesn’t ask you to pay a tax, do you still have to pay it? The Road Warrior has a special rant for the express lane project on I-15 on the California side of the border, and a reader knows of at least one optimistic motorist in these troubled economic times.

CORRECTION

Priscilla Schwartz-Hodes’ name was spelled incorrectly in Sunday’s On the Scene column.

UNLV rewrites policy on hate crimes

A draft of UNLV’s controversial hate crimes and bias incidents policy has been rewritten, taking much of the bite — and the controversy — out of it.

Mercury emissions prompt mine closure

RENO — State environmental regulators have ordered a northeast Nevada gold mine to shut down because it failed to meet a deadline to install equipment to reduce mercury emissions.

Medical clinic in park gets nod from county

A proposed medical clinic for uninsured patients that has stirred hostile opposition from some neighbors received a go-ahead from Clark County commissioners Tuesday.

Tax hikes of 2009 take $1 billion bite

CARSON CITY — Larger Nevada businesses paying nearly twice as much in payroll taxes. Typical Nevada families forking over 6.4 percent more in sales taxes and car registration fees.

Two Mesquite incumbents lose council seats

It wasn’t a clean sweep, but it came pretty close in Mesquite on Tuesday, as two of three incumbents were bounced from the City Council.

Man arrested in ’05 slaying

A 28-year-old man was arrested earlier this week by Las Vegas police in connection with a slaying of a man shot on Mother’s Day 2005.

Fitness group can again use parks

A fitness boot camp whose members were treated like renegades when they exercised at Clark County parks can now sweat from a brisk workout rather than from the fear of getting busted.

Gibbons says Democratic leaders ‘poisoned’ process

CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons can claim few victories from the 2009 Legislature but that’s mainly because the process was “poisoned” by the lawmakers’ Democratic leaders, a spokesman for the governor said Tuesday.

Las Vegas council race turns on a dime

In a come-from-behind victory, Las Vegas City Council candidate Stavros Anthony defeated Glenn Trowbridge by a mere 10 votes for the open Ward 4 seat.

MORE ELECTION NEWS:

2009 Municipal General Election results

NORTH LAS VEGAS: Buck claims North Las Vegas mayor’s post

HENDERSON: Hafen takes to-and-fro Henderson mayor’s race by 45 votes

BOULDER: Walker wins Boulder City Council seat

MESQUITE: Two Mesquite incumbents lose council seats

Gibbons’ gun permit weighed

RENO — A lawyer for a Reno newspaper urged the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday to open some records concerning Gov. Jim Gibbons’ concealed weapons permit, arguing confidentiality provisions extend only to information on an application, not documents or actions after a permit is issued.

‘We call it theft’

Investor’s Business Daily remains a publication bold enough to challenge the trance from which many Americans seem to be watching “Obama-nomics” unfold.

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