In Brief

HORSE RACING

Horse Racing

TODAY AT SANTA ANITA PARK

Three Up, Three Down: Dot-on-map schools not afraid to flaunt innocence

There is a quaintness, an innocence, a satin-warmup-jacket, canvas-basketball-sneaker naivete about watching the dots on the Nevada map decide their high school state basketball championships at Orleans Arena on Saturday that one doesn’t necessarily get when the big and haughty schools from Las Vegas and Reno decide theirs on Friday night.

New child bride claims surface against Jeffs, others

SALT LAKE CITY — An affidavit filed in a Canadian court case shows nine teen girls might have been brought from Canada to the United States to marry jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs and other men from his church.

Nevada man held in shooting of deputy in Wells

WELLS — A manhunt ended Saturday with the surrender of a Nevada man who authorities say fired dozens of rounds at law enforcement officers from the roof of his house two days earlier and critically injured a sheriff’s deputy.

Few expect major changes to Nevada’s collective bargaining law

Outside the Legislative Building in Carson City last week, some 300 protesters waved signs warning “Wisconsin Today, Nevada Tomorrow” to ward off their worry that public employees here could lose collective bargaining rights. But that’s not going to happen, certainly not tomorrow and probably not anytime soon.

Calm, cool BYU equal to moment; Aztecs not

SAN DIEGO — This was the scene: On one end of the basketball court at Viejas Arena, San Diego State players danced and pranced and hooted and hollered, bumping chests and slapping hands and laughing up a storm while expending all sorts of energy dunking.

Week in Review: Top News

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid wanted his call to outlaw legal brothels from Nevada’s rural landscape to prompt an “adult conversation” among lawmakers about the state’s notorious sex trade.

Week in Review: Reporters’ Notebook

Sen. Harry Reid’s call for an end to legal brothels in Nevada may not get much traction from state lawmakers, but it definitely got the attention of two appliance salesmen at a Las Vegas department store on Wednesday.

Defendants seeking more chances crowd Youth Offender Court

It’s standing room only in Judge Cedric Kerns’ courtroom these days. The 30 or so Youth Offender Court defendants and their families squeeze into the sixth-floor room at the Regional Justice Center in hopes that Kerns can wean them off drugs once and for all.

R-J critic examines the Oscars

Review-Journal movie critic Carol Cling handicaps the 83rd annual Academy Awards.

Paul, Pawlenty try to woo Tea Partyers as they gather in Phoenix

PHOENIX — Tea Party supporters packed a Phoenix convention center Saturday to hear from two possible contenders for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, an election the conservative populist movement is determined to shape after helping the GOP make big gains in the midterm elections.

Brothels fire back at Harry Reid

Nevada legislators sat in stunned silence when U.S. Sen. Harry Reid proposed outlawing the state’s brothels last week, but the working girls and brothel employees are speaking loud and clear.

February 2011
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28  
MOST READ