Police search for suspect in man’s death

Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 40-year-old man wanted in the death of a man found in the desert Aug. 2.

Two in gang sentenced

Two members of the Aryan Warriors prison gang were sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison.

Work of valley sailors makes Navy boss proud

Their “gun boss” calls them two of the finest sailors on board the USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier where warplanes launch for the skies over Afghanistan.

Woman arrested in drug bust

Las Vegas police arrested a 34-year-old woman and seized more than $500,000 worth of prescription drugs from a North Las Vegas pharmacy Wednesday.

CORRECTIONS

An article about congressional candidate John Guedry in Wednesday’s Review-Journal contained incorrect information. The former banker says he was eligible for a bonus for work at City National Bank in 2008 but declined the money.

Jury picked in bombing trial

A jury was selected Thursday for the trial of two men charged in a fatal bombing at the Luxor.

Model, suspect at Lake Mead in May

Ryan Jenkins, the suspect in the slaying of Las Vegas model Jasmine Fiore, was seen boating with her at Lake Mead in May.

Agency supports Utah-Nevada water agreement

An unprecedented water agreement between Nevada and Utah got a seal of approval from the Southern Nevada Water Authority board on Thursday.

Lauren Conrad walks; Depeche Mode rocks

L auren Conrad walks a red carpet at 1 p.m. Saturday at Tao Beach pool at The Venetian. This comes after her ex-friend from MTV’s “The Hills,” Heidi Montag, just took credit in Playboy for spreading the word about Lauren’s supposed sex tape.

Local restaurants’ special events to benefit a variety of causes

Rare 120 and Ago at the Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, will have $50 pre-fixe menus tonight and Saturday, with part of the proceeds for Aid for AIDS of Nevada. To reserve: 693-5500 for Rare 120, 693-4440 for Ago…

Plaza rewards new club members; Hard Rock giving away cash

New Plaza Players Club members earning 250 points ($250 coin-in; no point redemption required) within 24 hours after enrollment will receive a free T-shirt or $10 in free slot play. Those earning 500 points get a breakfast or lunch buffet, a duffle bag or $20 in free slot play. For 1,500 points earned in 24 hours, new Plaza Players Club members will receive two dinner buffets, a bathrobe or $50 free slot play. And those who manage to earn 2,500 points in their first 24 hours of membership will get a $50 dining certificate, a logo jacket or $100 of free slot play.

Call To Arms

What has Woodstock really wrought?

Rocky Road

Depeche Mode’s current tour has been both “calamitous” and “an amazing spectacle,” keyboardist Andy Fletcher tells me.

Born for the Horn

So cool that ice cubes envied him. So complex that Freud could’ve named a syndrome after him. So relentlessly creative that he came to stand for never standing still. So eclectic and influential that as a jazz musician, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bentley coming to House of Blues

Country singer Dierks Bentley plays a pair of shows at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay on Dec. 10 and 11.

‘Sin City Comedy’

You probably thought “Sin City Comedy” was just a catchy name, not truth-in-advertising shorthand for Comedy About Sin City.

McCormick & Schmick’s

A half-pound cheeseburger and fries for $2.95? We can’t even get that at a fast-food place these days, and here it is at a white-tablecloth restaurant.

MOVIES

OPENING THIS WEEK

‘Inglourious Basterds’

Kill your babies. You might not be familiar with that phrase. Unfortunately, neither is Quentin Tarantino — and the evidence is all over “Inglourious Basterds,” the filmmaker’s latest voyage to that cinematic neverland known as Planet Tarantino.

You need permission for a lemonade stand

Still think government is starving and stripped down because of revenue shortfalls? Still think this country’s politicians have cut public programs to the marrow and directed precious tax dollars only to “essential services”?

Shutting out small firms

Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani announced this week she’d like to see the county enter project labor agreements for every public works project estimated to cost $100,000 or more, despite the fact that former state Sen. Warren Hardy (wearing his full-time hat as a representative of a local builders group) warned taking such a step would drive up the county’s public works costs by 20 percent, at a time when the county is supposedly looking to save money anywhere it can.

Of Time and Las Vegas

On Jan. 10, 1994, Time magazine published a cover story titled “Las Vegas, U.S.A.” The piece, beautifully written by Kurt Andersen, was prompted by the Strip megaresort boom and reflected the anything-goes optimism of that era.

Company hopes to buy Colonial Bank branches

The New York company that planned to buy the Nevada operations of Colonial Bank before the bank failed Aug. 14 said Thursday that it is in discussions to buy them from the bank holding company that took over Colonial Bank.

Nevada foreclosures lead nation

Nevada’s housing industry continues to limp along with the highest residential foreclosure starts in the country at 3.7 percent for the second quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Thursday.

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