Ice water after harvest removes insects

: Just a few weeks after reading your article about spittle bugs our large rosemary plant was covered with them. I have never had spittle bugs on this plant before and have always used it for cooking. Does this mean that it will never be “clean” enough, even after the bugs are gone, for cooking?

Accessible storage essential to today’s modern kitchens

“It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.” Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet and critic, “Intimate Journals” (Translated by Christopher Isherwood 1947)

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Keep them drawers rollin’

: I was at a party where the hostess had a drawer that slid out from under the kitchen sink. The drawer was more of a wire basket on wheels that held a trash can. Anyway, I think it’s a great idea and I’m interested in installing one. How much would it cost and how difficult would it be?

Oasis in the desert

There’s just no denying it. It’s hot outside. Very hot.

Findlay Prep’s Joseph stars for Canada team

In perhaps the marquee game on the first day of the adidas Super 64 tournament, Cory Joseph left little doubt who the marquee player was.

FISHING REPORT

* LAKE MEAD — Striper boils have been reported. Anglers have been successful for stripers using top-water lures and anchovies in the Vegas Wash Area. The Overton Arm also has provided fast, top-water striper action. Catfish are also biting anchovies fished on the bottom.

Muhammad making mark

It was 9:09 a.m. Wednesday when Shabazz Muhammad threw down his first dunk. About five minutes later, he dunked again. The rattling rim was an alarm clock for those in the gym still rubbing the sleep from their eyes.

Sylvester coming off huge effort

From Bourbon Street to the Strip, this has been a year to celebrate for Utah linebacker Stevenson Sylvester.

IN BRIEF

PRO FOOTBALL

MWC chief battles BCS

Whether it was testifying in front of a Congressional committee or submitting a playoff proposal to Bowl Championship Series officials, Craig Thompson became the face of the fight against college football’s postseason system.

51s’ LaRoche relates to trade

For most players, getting traded from the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Boston Red Sox is like getting paroled.

New Hollins at old Rancho

Austin Hollins couldn’t believe the irony when he learned the site of his first game in the adidas Super 64.

ON TV/RADIO

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HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

Roster spots in demand

In a way, the 20 players participating in this week’s USA Basketball minicamp are no different from the millions of others who visit Las Vegas each year.

Police search Texas clinic in Jackson probe

LOS ANGELES — Armed with a search warrant indicating Michael Jackson’s death is being investigated as manslaughter, Los Angeles police detectives and federal drug agents on Wednesday swooped into the Houston clinic operated by the pop star’s personal physician and seized documents and computer files.

High court rejects appeal in LV death penalty case

CARSON CITY — The state Supreme Court has dismissed another appeal from death row inmate Timothy Redmen, convicted of murdering and mutilating a Las Vegas man and tossing his body into a trash bin.

Gibbons accuser arrested in California

The software designer who sparked a federal investigation into Gov. Jim Gibbons after accusing him of taking bribes has been arrested on charges he passed $1 million in bad checks on the Strip.

County, cities eye more acres

Clark County and other local governments are forging ahead with an ambitious effort that will more than double acreage available for development as part of a long-standing program that protects habitat for sensitive species.

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