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Scot wins playoff over Campbell, McNeill for title

Former Colorado State golfer Martin Laird won for the first time on the PGA Tour, capturing the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday. … Laird beat Chad Campbell and George McNeill in a three-way sudden-death playoff at TPC Summerlin after all three had finished regulation at 19-under-par 265. His 12-foot birdie putt on the par-4 No. 18, the third playoff hole, ended the drama.

Mother Nature crashes party

It took four days, but the one uninvited guest finally managed to crash the party at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Gonzalez finds peace on course through faith

There is a proverb about adversity that says if you faint in the day of it, your strength is small. Ernie Gonzalez believes he has help in such troubling times.

Saints favored to march to Super Bowl victory

It’s one thing to kick around a tomato can. Sticking an ugly black eye on a heavyweight contender, as Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints did Sunday, is a legitimate accomplishment.

Putting Pests to Test

Quagga mussels have invaded Lake Mead by the trillions, but that doesn’t mean no good can come of it. Researchers are now turning Lake Mead’s fish hatchery into a laboratory to understand how the pesky mollusks could impact other Western waters.

Justin Timberlake and Friends

The man of the hour took a backseat to the girl of the minute as she whipped her hair around in golden arcs, looking like a blonde windmill on a particularly gusty day.

Military tries out virtual schools

When members of the military are stationed overseas, they usually bring their families. They live in Germany or Japan or some other faraway place with a military base and, often, a school run by the Department of Defense.

School’s Hispanic enrollment soars

The trend is clear: In the past five years, Hispanic enrollment at the College of Southern Nevada has climbed more than 50 percent.

Check out doctors and lawyers, if they let you, before you need them

The question was valid: Why wasn’t I pounding on the State Bar of Nevada for not putting the disciplinary actions against Nevada lawyers on its Web site? After all, I had certainly hammered the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners and the Nevada Board of Osteopathic Medicine for failing to put detailed medical malpractice information on their sites.

In Brief

DEADLY PATROL CAR CRASH

Author says guilt fueled rise to best-selling fame

Mitch Albom, 51, grew up in the warmth of a fortunate childhood in New Jersey. Not poor. Not struggling. He was just another kid saturated in religion in Hebrew academy, absorbing every book of the Bible in English and Aramaic.

Reid vows to fight insurance industry

After months of debate over proposals to reform the American system of health care delivery, the health insurance industry is openly flexing its muscle in opposition to reform.

The feds and Sheriff Joe

When officials in the Obama administration said they would reform a Bush administration program under which members of local police departments were allowed to get some specialized training and then help bust illegal immigrants, they assured critics it was just “fine-tuning”

Sports Medicine

Heart Health

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