The do’s and don’ts of restroom etiquette

The obvious does not need stating. It was your mom’s job to teach you how to clean up after yourself, flush properly, and wash your hands. We wondered about grayer situations, the awkward kind that separate the considerate from the contemptible at public and employee restrooms.

COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

HERE TO HELP: Federal, state and local governments are helping small-business owners get loans, learn better management techniques, obtain government contracts, expand into export markets and cut costs.

LAS VEGAS CONVENTIONS

Some of the largest conventions scheduled for the Las Vegas area:

Judge hangs tough in Station bankruptcy

RENO — Lawyers from highfalutin firms headquartered in Los Angeles and New York City learned their legal pedigrees don’t matter to federal bankruptcy Judge Gregg Zive.

Area homeowners flustered while trying to ward off foreclosures

Charles and Roberta Ferraris are trying to do the right thing — to pay their debts and meet their obligations like they were taught by their parents. Money’s been tight since Charles got laid off from his casino job and Roberta had her hours cut at a local accounting firm.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

Fourth-inning slam lifts Tacoma past 51s

Mike Wilson hit a grand slam, and David Pauley pitched eight effective innings for Tacoma in the Rainiers’ 5-2 win over the 51s in a Pacific Coast League game Saturday night in Tacoma, Wash.

THREE UP, THREE DOWN — Kid’s exit quieter than arrival

It was August 1985 when the 15-year-old baseball prodigy with the sweetest baseball swing since Darryl Strawberry (bet you thought I was going to say Ted Williams) barged into the press box at Ricketts Park, home of the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, N.M., asked if I was the reporter from the local newspaper and, if so, when did I want to interview him?

RANKING THE REBELS: 72 – Don Lyons

Years: 1967 to 1969, Career highlights: Scored 908 points in 57 games for a career scoring average of 15.9 per game.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Chambers is best fit for UNLV baseball

UNLV shouldn’t hire Tim Chambers to lead its struggling baseball program because he is a terrific coach, having built College of Southern Nevada into a junior college power the last 11 seasons.

Ex-BLM leader supports preserve for wild horses

RENO — A former U.S. Bureau of Land Management director has endorsed a proposed wild horse preserve in Nevada, saying it makes more sense than Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s plan to send the animals to the Midwest.

THIS WEEK

Monday

Top News

One of Southern Nevada’s worst medical calamities turned into a criminal case on Friday, when Dr. Dipak Desai and two of his former clinic workers were indicted for their roles in the hepatitis C outbreak.

Reporters’ Notebook

FIRST THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE arrested the district attorney. Then the district attorney filed charges against a sheriff’s detective who arrested him. Then the detective was booked and released to return to work, where he sent out a news release about being booked, complete with his own mug shot.

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