Nevada Ballet off to delightful start

The whirlwind of energy of “Timeless Innovation,” Nevada Ballet Theatre’s season premiere, left the audience at UNLV’s Artemus Ham Hall intrigued and entranced.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Miller aims to impress audience

Mixed martial arts’ return to network television is being built around Fedor Emelianenko.

Rebels lineman prefers anonymity to notoriety

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment of a feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a UNLV football player. Today’s Q&A is with center John Gianninoto, a junior from Catalina Foothills High School in Tucson, Ariz.

THE HOT CORNER

[Todd Dewey Review-Journal, 48-34-1 (overall record)]

Palo Verde mourns coach, friend

It was growing late Sunday evening, and the bulletin board wasn’t finished. Darwin Rost hadn’t yet attached all the newspaper clippings and combine numbers and statistics and other important information about the upcoming opponent’s top players.

IN BRIEF

HORSE RACING

Ensign’s parents contribute to Reid

Two weeks after Democrats blasted Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden for her “disturbing” support of embattled Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., Ensign’s parents have been reported as donors to the campaign of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., whom Lowden wants to unseat.

Legal battles again delay road project

Construction of a Las Vegas Beltway widening project, stalled for six months because of sparring between competing contractors, has been delayed at least another two weeks.

CORRECTIONS

A story in Saturday’s Review-Journal about the speakers policy for the Clark County School Board stated the wrong employer for a lawyer who advises the board. Mary-Anne Miller works for the civil division of the district attorney’s office.

Las Vegas police renew partnership with ICE

The Metropolitan Police Department has renewed a controversial partnership with federal immigration officials that allows some corrections officers to start deportation proceedings against immigration violators.

Body placement key in death of intruder in LV

Two brothers charged with murder in the shooting of a man who entered their house in a drug-related robbery attempt might have moved the victim’s body and lied to police, an arrest report obtained Monday revealed.

Passenger killed in Craig Road crash

A passenger was killed in North Las Vegas on Monday when the car the person was riding in failed to yield to a tow truck.

Similarity of deaths explored

Kevin Franchow and Dominique Evans did not have much in common. Franchow, 38, had the intellect of a child. Evans, 19, worked with children. But both men met similar fates this year: beaten, robbed and shot to death in a public place by apparent strangers.

IN BRIEF

ADVOCACY GROUP FAMILIES USA

Fossil bed preservation support grows

Momentum is building for the creation of a national monument in the northern Las Vegas Valley, one dedicated to the preservation of the fossilized remains of ice-age animals that roamed the area 200,000 years ago.

Puscifer may find a home at Palms

Maynard James Keenan says it’s “possible” his eclectic rock band Puscifer will do a residency at the Palms, in the way Santana performs at the Hard Rock Hotel through the year.

The Scenic Strip

The section of Las Vegas Boulevard between Sahara and Washington avenues is only about 3.5 miles long.

Nevada medical marijuana users unaffected by decision

CARSON CITY — The Obama administration’s decision to no longer prosecute medical marijuana users won’t have any effect in Nevada, which never has had an approved patient face federal charges, state and law enforcement representatives said Monday.

Board game apropos for LV

It seems fitting that the world championship event for a contest in which the object is to bankrupt your opponents by manipulating real estate deals is being held here in Las Vegas, the foreclosure capital.

Titus tackles questions

Hundreds of residents turned out to ask Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., questions about proposed health insurance changes and to give their two cents on how Congress should handle the issue.

Judge consolidates medical fraud cases

A federal judge has consolidated the fraud case against a Las Vegas doctor with the fraud case against a personal injury lawyer and medical consultant.

Casino shooter gets long term

Since the night gunfire exploded inside the New York-New York, Troy Sanchez has often questioned how he survived.

Medical marijuana

On the campaign trail last year, Barack Obama vowed, if elected, to respect state laws on medical marijuana and call off the drug warriors in their quest to prosecute ailing patients who have a doctor’s prescription to use the substance.

Wynn won’t quiet views

Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman Steve Wynn said Monday he plans to continue speaking out on what he calls the Obama administration’s mishandling of the economy.

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