Canyon Springs’ road victory revealing

Canyon Springs’ boys basketball team will always accept a confidence-building road win early in the season.

THE HOT CORNER

[TODD DEWEY Review-Journal, 50-37-1 (overall record)]

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BASKETBALL

If these are the finalists, it must be some mistake

We know the young and energetic senior associate from UCLA isn’t even a finalist. He was the candidate most favored by many on UNLV’s athletic director search committee, which sort of makes you wonder why there was a committee at all.

Women in rodeo eye new frontiers

A woman’s role in rodeo is not limited to being a fan, flag girl or Miss Rodeo pageant contestant.

NBDL owner fools fans

The owner of Utah’s NBA Development League team promised Air Jordan but delivered little more than thin air.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

LV police asking for information on slaying suspect

Anyone who had contact with a 34-year-old British motivational speaker who is now a suspect in the slaying of a Las Vegas woman is being asked to call Las Vegas police.

Officials target future generations

A plastic box containing assorted tidbits of Clark County will be planted today in a dirt patch with a cornerstone instructing some great, great grandkid to unearth it in 2109.

School district spent $14 million; contract proposed for former administrator

Between June and October, as the Clark County School District was busy paring back jobs and programs because of funding shortfalls, it shelled out more than $14 million to consultants and speakers for a range of educational and operational services, according to documents released by the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

Despite decrease, Silver State still releasing toxins, EPA says

Although the Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday that Nevada’s overall toxic releases decreased by 10 percent last year, there’s still plenty of cancer-causing metals and minerals escaping to the air and water.

Board approves furlough exemptions

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons lectured Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto over her request to exempt 33 workers within the Bureau of Consumer Protection from state-mandated furloughs, then voted to approve the exemptions.

Palin will speak to bowling group

Will Sarah Palin be bowling for campaign dollars when she comes to Las Vegas in May?

Woman wins case against ex-judge

A one-time legal assistant to ousted District Judge Elizabeth Halverson won a $50,000 judgment Tuesday in the defamation case she filed against Halverson in 2007.

Gibbons differs with tourist-train critics

Gov. Jim Gibbons begs to “respectfully disagree” with two Republican U.S. senators who say it is “silly” and “wasteful” to spend federal tax dollars on a historic Nevada train line.

Justice to pursue second court term

Justice Ron Parraguirre on Tuesday announced he will seek a second term on the Nevada Supreme Court.

Gibbons requests new plans for cuts

CARSON CITY — While he has not decided to call the Legislature into a special session this winter, Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that he is looking at laying off state employees, cutting their salaries and adding unpaid furlough days to deal with a more than $50 million tax revenue shortfall.

IN BRIEF

POLICE OFFICER’S DEATH

Ex-NLV officer pleads guilty to misconduct

A former North Las Vegas Police officer accused of attempting to gain sexual favors, including oral sex, from women he cited for traffic violations pleaded guilty to five gross misdemeanors Tuesday.

CORRECTIONS

The photo caption that accompanied the American Valor story in Tuesday’s Review-Journal misidentified Marco Martinez as a U.S. Marine Corps corporal. Martinez earned a Navy Cross as a corporal but was photographed after he was promoted to sergeant.

Unmarked dividers, ‘tubs’ in Henderson provoke reader gripes

We don’t get a lot of questions directed at the city of Henderson and doubt that is because its roads are in tip-top shape, but this week a Henderson couple unleashed a few gripes about that city’s roads and traffic-controlling features. So, let’s start with concerns from Frank and Kathy.

Runner in Las Vegas race dies

A Las Vegas resident who collapsed near the end of Sunday’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon and Half-Marathon died Tuesday at an undisclosed local hospital.

Sierra Storm

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