RESTAURANT REPORT

168 Market restaurant, 3459 S. Jones Blvd., received 23 demerits March 3. Violations included food held at improper temperatures. GRADE: C.

IN BRIEF

FORECLOSUREs in southern nevada

USO giving airport military rest stop

After years of false starts, a much-anticipated USO lounge will open within six months in a vacant space at McCarran.
USO officials recently inspected a former U.S. Airways executive suite and determined that it could be quickly converted to a rest stop for traveling military personnel.

Grill ripped from man’s teeth in jail

When a Tennessee jailer ripped the gold grill from a new inmate’s teeth last year, it left the 31-year-old man in excruciating pain and left taxpayers on the hook for nearly $100,000 in damages. Anthony McCoy spat out blood and teeth and was in agony for more than a week after the jailer reached into his mouth and yanked out the grill, along with the cement attached to his teeth, his lawyer said.

March 16 Track Summaries

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A beach, a jogger, a failing plane, and death

Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter’s third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on Hilton Head Island, S.C., jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod.
Officials say the Woodstock, Ga., man neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: a single-engine plane making an emergency landing.

Theater-going growing, movie executive says

The “communal experience” of going to the theater has not been lost in the age of on-demand movies and DVDs, a motion picture executive said Tuesday at ShoWest.

Macau may take back land promised to casino operators

Macau’s top leader, who has been on the job less than three months, said the Special Administrative Region of China may seek to reclaim land promised to casino operators with the sites being used for other development purposes.

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