Larry Johnson has eye on UNLV basketball coaching job

Two former UNLV basketball players, Dave Rice and Reggie Theus, are candidates to be the program’s next coach. Larry Johnson wants his name added to the short list.

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Week in Review: Reporters’ Notebook

Humor can be dangerous on the campaign trail, and a joke Carolyn Goodman told Friday on a subject near and dear to many Las Vegans fell flat.

DesertXpress feels like monorail redux

Despite initial plans to loop the monorail through downtown and connect it to the airport, it remains a four-mile shuttle between select Strip resorts. The DesertXpress will terminate in Victorville, Calif., but plans call for an eventual connection to Palmdale, Calif., where it would link into the rest of California’s proposed high-speed network.

Week in Review: Top News

After getting UNLV’s basketball program singing again, Lon Kruger is headed to where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain.

Mormon church announces three new temples

The Mormon church has plans for three new temples in North America.

Doctors defend colleague arrested on murder charge

After the arrest of Dr. Richard Teh last month on a murder charge for prescribing drugs to a patient who subsequently died, Dr. William Van Tobel sent an incensed email to fellow physicians in the Las Vegas Valley. “It is not just Richard Teh on trial for murder. We are all on trial,” he wrote.

Correction

Neon this week

Las Vegas mayoral hopefuls sprint to finish

Candidates for Las Vegas mayor hit the streets and the phone lines over the weekend, searching for the final votes that could keep them in the race after Tuesday’s primary.

Missing digit turns into simple math (Animatronics Technician)

Since I entered therapy last year, I no longer give anyone the finger. But today it’s my job. Atlas has shed the middle digit of his left hand. He’s the nine-foot animatronic star of “Fall of Atlantis.”

Rattlesnakes attract attention at Great Basin National Park

When the weather warms and the snow begins to melt in a month or two, rattlesnakes will emerge from their communal dens at Great Basin National Park and slither forth to forage and mate.

Las Vegas marijuana co-operatives face legal hurdles

The number of people registering for the Nevada Medical Marijuana Program is skyrocketing as federal and local law enforcement raid storefronts for allegedly distributing cannabis illegally. A proposal pending in the 2011 Nevada Legislature is drawing support and criticism on the still-taboo subject.

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