In Brief

Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson is back in the money, according to the latest Forbes 400 list.

Research center boss sees new chances

With appointment of a new director, the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas may try a slightly different tack.

Fishing Report

■ LAKE MEAD — Top-water action near Boulder Island has been good. Anglers are catching stripers and catfish in the Vegas Arm area. Lures will catch stripers, and anchovies will catch stripers and catfish. Netting and using live shad as bait always are good choices. The Nevada Department of Wildlife reminds anglers the fishing pier at Boulder Harbor has been moved to Hemenway because of dropping water levels.

Head of the Class

■ AGASSI PREP — Football player LeShaun Sims caught four passes for 101 yards and four touchdowns and scored on a 17-yard run in a 58-0 win over Laughlin.

Angry blogger has no love for Hauck

Three games and three ugly losses into his tenure as UNLV football coach, Bobby Hauck is already under fire. An angry mob of fed-up fans is calling for Hauck to be fired.

UNLV soccer returns to roots

It would have been much easier with one of those fancy motorized machines that can lay up to 2,000 square meters of turf per day without one worker breaking a sweat.

In Brief

five years’ probation

Liberace fans suspect mismanagement behind museum closure

A small but colorful group protesting the closing of the Liberace Museum included a magician with a Liberace marionette, his wife dressed as a showgirl and a female impersonator wearing a makeshift tribute to the showy pianist’s “Bicentennial hot pants” outfit.