COMING IN THIS WEEK’S LAS VEGAS BUSINESS PRESS

COVER STORY: The International Consumer Electronics Show’s weeklong flurry of flash let conventioneers imagine technology of the future.

Banked cash may create tax trouble for Summerlin HOA group

Homeowners associations across the nation are nervously watching the outcome of an Internal Revenue Service demand that the Sun City Summerlin Community Association pay taxes on some $2 million held in the HOA’s savings account.

Davies, Hartsock fuel BYU victory

MALIBU, Calif. — Brandon Davies and Noah Hartsock scored 29 and 20 points, respectively, and Brigham Young defeated Pepperdine 77-64 on Saturday.

Smith, Lady Rebels roll to win over New Mexico

The UNLV women’s basketball team went on a huge run that spanned the end of the first half and the beginning of the second and rolled past New Mexico 64-50 on Saturday in Mountain West Conference play at Albuquerque.

Aztecs pad win streak vs. Falcons

SAN DIEGO — There was a good reason No. 16 San Diego State looked sluggish against Air Force on Saturday night.

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WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

Sebastian Ordonez isn’t a drug dealer, but if he were he wouldn’t sell so-called “bath salts,” the street name of synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of crystal meth, Ecstasy, LSD and cocaine. The employee at one of the valley’s ubiquitous smoke shops, where the synthetic drugs are reportedly widely available, said he would be more ambitious. “If I’m going to get busted for selling drugs, I’m selling real cocaine, not fake cocaine. You can buy a better lawyer if you sell real cocaine.”

WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news

A 17-year-old senior at Desert Pines High School was shot and killed outside a house party in northwest Las Vegas early Sunday.

Family still questions man’s Taser death

Eduardo Lopez-Hernandez died on Aug. 25, 2010, shortly after he was shot with a Taser multiple times in a confrontation with Nevada Highway Patrol troopers on U.S. Highway 95. His survivors have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Highway Patrol.

Mormon votes targeted in GOP presidential campaign

When Mormons fled Mexico a century ago to escape the country’s revolutionary guns, Dewaine Brown’s mother was among the children returning to the United States with their families. Another child, the father of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, also joined the exodus as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned their colonies.

UNLV student comes to grandfather’s rescue

Looking back on it now, it is easy to see the connections between the events that ultimately allowed a 24-year-old college student to save her grandfather’s life.

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