Pardee homebuyer trades climate

When Harold Gumayagay moved to Las Vegas in 2007, he knew that he was ready to leave behind the harsh winters in the Midwest.

Summerlin commits to education with 25 public and private schools

With 25 private and public schools, the master-planned community of Summerlin offers more schools than any other Las Vegas community, according to Kevin Orrock, top division executive of The Howard Hughes Corp., developer of Summerlin. Many of the community’s private schools rank among the best in the valley, he said.

Woodside Homes offers five floor plans

For those looking to find a new home in Mountain’s Edge, Rio Vista by Woodside Homes offers five floor plans with new homes starting in the $130,000s.

The Irons Collection at Rhodes Ranch features three single-story floor plans

The Irons at Rhodes Ranch is a collection of three single-story floor plans perfect for those looking for their first home, said sales agent Taylor Smith. And with the government-sponsored incentive of $8,000 towards first home purchase deadine, time is running out to buy the home of your dreams, according to Smith.

Newport Lofts auction to be held

Home shoppers have one more week to tour Newport Lofts during an open house before the Aug. 29 auction.

Naumann gives advice on buying abandoned home

Q: My next-door neighbors have abandoned their house. According to them, they still own it for three more months and the lender is Countrywide. I would like to make Countrywide an offer on the house. How do I go about it?

Time is running out to use first-time tax credit

First-time homebuyers had better get a move on if they hope to take advantage of the $8,000 federal tax credit. The window of opportunity is closing rapidly.

Energy Star president’s home becomes ‘green’

Nevada Energy Star Partners President Annette Bubak recently invested in her own home. Bubak, who leads the coalition of builders, developers, utilities, consultants, manufacturers and companies that promote green products and services, hired Green Energy Services of Nevada, a member of Nevada Energy Star Partners, to evaluate the energy efficiency of her 19-year-old tract home. This was designed to not only illuminate just how much energy is typically lost through older, sub-standard construction, but to demonstrate just how easy and inexpensive it is to improve a home’s energy efficiency.

McCall sluggish in victory

There’s no video evidence from the time Oliver McCall and Franklin Lawrence sparred in 2007 in a Kentucky gym. But chances are it looked a lot like their heavyweight fight Friday at The Orleans.

Tailback hopeful slow to recover

Before he can compete to be UNLV’s starting running back, C.J. Cox has to walk, and that has become a problem.

Favre, Vick back in game

It has been a busy week in professional football, with a couple of big, controversial stars — Brett Favre and Michael Vick — joining NFL rosters. No worries, though, for John Madden, because both are set to take the field in “Madden NFL 10,” his namesake video game.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

Love of game drives QB

It’s no tired cliche when Ryan Vena says he plays football for the love of it, not the money. He proves it every day.

Ebarb at home as 51s reserve

C.J. Ebarb was a member of the College of Southern Nevada baseball team that won the junior college national title in 2003, and he also played a season for UNLV in 2004.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Cheesy NCAA rules need changing

They issued one of those excessive heat warnings Friday, advising of temperatures that could reach 110 degrees.

IN BRIEF

MOTOR SPORTS

Nevadans prefer cuts in state spending over raising taxes

CARSON CITY — If legislators need to go into a special session to deal with declining tax revenue, then citizens would prefer they cut state spending rather than increase taxes to handle the shortfall, a new poll commissioned by the Review-Journal shows.

Cap-and-trade legislation gets cold shoulder

For half of Nevadans, the debate over legislation designed to control the climate is just so much hot air. A new Review-Journal poll found that 50 percent of the state’s residents oppose federal cap-and-trade legislation that would allow the government to limit companies’ abilities to emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that some say is warming the planet. Another 42 percent of Nevadans support the legislation, while 8 percent say they’re undecided.

Gibbons can hire fiscal aide

CARSON CITY — The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee has no legal authority to act on Gov. Jim Gibbons’ decision to spend $257,000 to hire a Clark County deputy recorder to oversee Nevada’s receipt of $2.2 billion in federal stimulus dollars, the governor and one of his top aides said Friday.

IN BRIEF

COOL-DOWN FORECAST

CORRECTION

A story in Thursday’s Review-Journal contained an incorrect address for Charlotte and Jerry Keller Elementary School, which will open Monday. The school is in Las Vegas.

Reward offered in slaying

BUENA PARK, Calif. — An ex-model found stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase without fingers or teeth was so badly mutilated that authorities had to use breast implants to identify her body, prosecutors said Friday.

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