Timberlake teams with Kim

One of the perks of hosting a golf tournament is picking your Pro-Am playing partner.

NASCAR teen’s dad runs wild

Teenager Joey Logano is old enough to race in NASCAR but apparently isn’t able to fight his own battles.

ON TV/RADIO

FOOTBALL

2008 winner finds ’09 plenty rough

Marc Turnesa wielded a hot putter for four days at TPC Summerlin last October, and it guided him to his first and only PGA Tour victory.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

Lobos’ Locksley suspended for fight with assistant

New Mexico football coach Mike Locksley opened his portion of Tuesday’s league conference call by talking about the fortuitous timing of this week’s bye, saying it would give his staff a chance to “evaluate everything we do in the program.”

IN BRIEF

TENNIS

Gibbons: Sandoval wouldn’t replace Ensign

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday he would not appoint himself or the Republican seeking his seat, Brian Sandoval, to the U.S. Senate if Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., resigns.

Bumper stickers shocking

The Department of Motor Vehicles has had its battles with motorists who sport vanity plates. The agency can refuse to issue plates it deems inappropriate, although, as we saw last summer, the decisions of DMV officials sometimes can be overturned. But what’s the deal with bumper stickers?

Governor hopes to settle with wife

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday he hopes to reach agreement with his estranged wife today on property division and other matters in a settlement conference that could lead to the end of their 23-year marriage.

Republicans point to cost of nuclear waste

Cheaper is better when it comes to shouldering taxpayers with the burden of dealing with the nuclear power industry’s mounting piles of highly radioactive waste.

Rory Reid kicks off gubernatorial bid

Rory Reid, a Clark County commissioner running for governor of Nevada, says voters want to hear more about new jobs than election predictions and his family tree. That’s why Reid says the formal launch of his campaign this evening will lay out a plan to lower unemployment and revive the Nevada economy without raising taxes.

Campaign cash piling up for Reid

Incumbent Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., raised more than $2 million in three months to add to a campaign fundraising haul of more than $12 million, according to records obtained Tuesday.

Report calls for better upkeep of state roads

Most Southern Nevada motorists have slammed their vehicles into uneven pavement or bounced along a rutted and bumpy road or racked their undercarriage on a giant pothole.

Home rule prospects appear dim

CARSON CITY — City council members and county commissioners from throughout Nevada are expected to champion home rule at a summit in Henderson today. But it all could be for naught.

Klingons embrace the dark side

Clad in black with latex ridges glued to their foreheads, they sat at picnic tables and slurped down noodles as part of a feast called The Gathering, or “Qot baVol” in Klingon. This year’s event, at Valley of Fire State Park, drew about 30 hard-core “Star Trek” fans, though only about half of them dressed up as the franchise’s best-known clan of villains.

IN BRIEF

POLICE STANDOFF

Petition rules targeted

Senate candidate Sharron Angle filed a federal lawsuit Monday seeking to quash rules that require initiative petition circulators to verify that petition signers are registered voters.

Red Rock trails workshops set

Public lands officials will hold two workshops Thursday to discuss the feasibility of building a nonmotorized, multi-use trail system through the northern part of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

Panel OKs money for tax study

CARSON CITY — The state Board of Examiners on Tuesday endorsed spending $500,000 for a study sought by the Legislature on Nevada’s revenue structure.

Rumor about ring wrong, Fator says

So much for that rumor that Terry Fator‘s girlfriend Taylor Dew has been flashing a big honking engagement ring.

‘Government has never created a job’

Appearing as the lone representative of the private sector on the morning talk show “Fox News Sunday,” Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, sparred with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Democratic economist Mark Zandi on the proper role of government in forging a stable recovery.

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