Vigil brings together friends, family of teen slain one year ago

A year after he was shot to death in a hail of gunfire at Bob Baskin Park, friends and relatives of David Miramontes gathered in his memory. More than 75 people observed a moment of silence.

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“I was thinking I wish I could turn back time and stop it,” Brenda Miramontes said, fighting back tears during the candlelight vigil to honor her son.

The vigil was held at Desert Breeze Park on Spring Mountain Road near Cimarron Road because Baskin Park had too many “bad memories” associated with it, Brenda Miramontes said. It’s also the place where her son played organized soccer in his early teens.

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BASEBALL

Mills breaks through for 51s

Brad Mills dominated at the Single-A and Double-A levels last year, going a combined 13-5 with a 1.96 ERA in his first full professional season.

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PRO FOOTBALL

Efficient Stewart grabs first win as driver/owner

LONG POND, Pa. — All Tony Stewart could do the final laps at Pocono Raceway was use every trick available to stretch out his fuel and creep toward the finish line.

Family hopes as LV police reopen case

The leads ran dry. Questions went unanswered. Years passed. But the family of Derek Coleman, gunned down in 2005 by an unknown assailant, still clings to the hope for justice.



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UNLV professor targets ‘wasteful’ dipper wells

Before you even take that first sip of latte or bite of hand-scooped ice cream, you may have unwittingly participated in a form of water waste as common as your corner coffee shop.

CORRECTION

Jimmy May and Frank Plasso Jr., who both were inducted into the Southern Nevada Sports Hall of Fame on Friday at the Orleans Arena, were misidentified in a photo in Saturday’s paper. Plasso was pictured on the far left, and May was second from the right.

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MULTIVEHICLE ACCIDENT

Judicial candidates should be judged on their merits, not politics

Two Hispanic activists are furious because attorney Vincent Ochoa wasn’t chosen by the Clark County Commission to fill one of two Las Vegas justice of the peace seats. They made threats of political retaliation from the minority community at Tuesday’s commission meeting.

Deployed Nevada Army National Guard unit has nine sets of siblings

The Lowells and the Petersens, seen above training at Camp Atterbury in Indiana, are just two of nine sets of brothers serving in Nevada’s 1st Squadron, 221st Cavalry of the Nevada Army National Guard, which will be heading out in a few weeks for some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.



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Reid just irks Nevada GOP

If anger were money, Sen. Harry Reid’s opponents would be wealthy indeed. But it isn’t, and they’re not.

Rookie bowls a strike at karaoke

BROOKINGS, S.D. — She never really thought singing along with someone else’s songs would score her a trip to Las Vegas.

Taxing the couch potatoes

Asking politicians whether they have enough tax money is like asking a 10-year-old boy if he’s had enough ice cream and soda pop.

Gibbons signs child pornography bill

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons signed into law today a bill that makes it a felony to knowingly view child pornography over the Internet.

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