WATER COOLER

Cell phones can be double-edged tools

On the shoulder of Interstate 15, you spot a totaled car. You get closer. It looks like your best friend’s.

COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

HIRE CALLING: The economic recession continues to make job hunting hard; scores of unemployed locals will tell you so. Sadly for them, observers don’t expect hiring to improve much at all this year.

Las Vegas dealerships in doldrums

When Findlay Chevrolet opened in 2007, the barren stretch of desert there along the southern beltway between Jones and Rainbow boulevards looked poised to become another auto mall. General manager Justin Findlay envisioned it that way.

Edgar seizes Penn’s UFC title

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — In the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first show in the Middle East and its first outdoors, heavy underdog Frankie Edgar won a unanimous decision over BJ Penn on Saturday to claim the lightweight title at UFC 112.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

in brief

flamingo road

Sierra ski resorts shutting down for season

RENO — Despite boasting an abundance of snow after a string of late-season storms, Sierra ski resorts are beginning to shut down for the season.

Top News

Layoff notices began to go out last week to 204 city employees in North Las Vegas, the first of what could be a wave of firings by local government entities hit hard by shrinking revenue and state budget cuts.

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