IN BRIEF

GOLF

AD aspirant Johnson has coaches in mind

UNLV athletic director candidate John Johnson did more than describe the type of football coach he would hire if he gets the AD job. He actually named names.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

All Nevadans now eligible for H1N1 flu vaccine

Every Nevadan who wants a vaccination for the H1N1 flu is now eligible to receive one, local and state health officials confirmed Friday.

Data leak spurs UMC to offer one year free credit monitoring

University Medical Center will provide one year of free credit monitoring to more than 100 people whose personal information might have been illegally shared with local lawyers, the hospital announced Friday.

Sheriff defends alliance with immigration officials

Sheriff Doug Gillespie on Friday found himself cast in a now familiar role: defender of a controversial partnership between the Metropolitan Police Department and federal officials that allows local corrections officers to begin deportation proceedings against immigration violators.

Ethics commission rules against Las Vegas city councilman Ross

Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross shouldn’t have voted to advance a new city hall project in December 2008 and February of this year because he had a conflict of interest, the Nevada Ethics Commission ruled Friday.

IN BRIEF

DETENTION CENTER

CORRECTIONS

A story in Friday’s editions incorrectly reported a statement by District Judge Valerie Adair pertaining to the criminal case against Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki. Adair, who dismissed the case against Krolicki on Monday, said that a defense argument was “without merit or not properly before the court.”

Jury: Man caused own death

Although a 47-year-old man died shortly after struggling with a group of Las Vegas police officers on Nov. 1, a coroner’s jury concluded on Friday that he caused his own death.

Foreclosure mediators take oath

More than 32,600 foreclosures have been filed in Nevada since July 1 and about 10 percent of those affected have requested help from the Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program.

‘There’s no way we can justify this’

USA Today reports that next year many large firms plan to restore some of the employee benefits they cut in 2009 — pay raises and 401(k) matches, for instance.

Icahn purchases chunk of Trump Entertainment debt

DES MOINES, Iowa — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who is working on buying debt in bankrupt Las Vegas casinos, said Friday he has agreed to buy a majority of the first-lien bank debt of Trump Entertainment Resorts Holdings, which owns three resorts in Atlantic City.

Lack of talk in Stations’ bankruptcy case puzzles judge

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregg Zive on Friday questioned why none of the parties in Station Casinos’ bankruptcy case have met with state casino regulators yet to discuss any of the crucial issues involved in the case.

IN BRIEF

WASHINGTON

Give banks some credit: They reach out to kids

After taking $500 billion in government bailout money, paying million-dollar bonuses to chief executives and running borrowers through a corporate maze to qualify for loan modifications, the banking industry could use an image makeover.

RELIGION NOTES

MUSIC

Brazile wins record-tying 7th title at National Finals Rodeo

It took Trevor Brazile longer to rope most of his calves and catch his steers in team roping than he expected. It also took a few days longer than he expected to win his seventh all-around world championship in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. … Brazile, 33, needed the 10th and final day of the National Finals Rodeo to match the record for most all-around championships in PRCA history set in 1998 by Ty Murray.

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