Q&A with MDL Group founder Carol Cline-Ong

Carol Cline-Ong is committed to taking MDL Group to the next level as a full-service commercial real estate brokerage and property management firm in Las Vegas.

Henderson building’s purchase bringing night life to downtown

Nothing has occupied the first floor of downtown Henderson’s Pinnacle Building for three years, but a sale of the structure was approved last week, paving the way for an urban lounge to fill the empty space.

Questions of conflicts in North Las Vegas

Clark County and North Las Vegas vie for the same dollars and don’t always agree on issues.

Brooks could soon be ousted from Nevada Assembly

CARSON CITY — Steven Brooks’ nascent political career in the Nevada Legislature could be derailed this week when his Assembly colleagues decide whether he is fit to serve.

Wagerers cash in on unknown Gulf Coast

In what likely was junior guard Jamaal Franklin’s final game at San Diego State, he became a forgotten footnote to the biggest story of the NCAA Tournament. Nothing beats a good underdog story, and this is a great one.

Doctor’s efforts to raise alarm about Desai rebuffed

Well before Dr. Dipak Desai faced criminal charges, Dr. Charles Cohan gave you the sense that the best the physician at the center of the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas should hope for professionally is popping prisoners’ hemorrhoids, if he was allowed to practice medicine at all.

Tight muscles can derail your workout progress

Have you ever driven a car with the emergency brake on? How about trying to get a tan wearing a coat? Absorb the information in a textbook by osmosis? Exercising with tight muscles can be just as frustrating.

Cabrera gets tat of Ryan Gosling

Now this is funny. Singer Ryan Cabrera came to Vegas a few months ago, and he got a tattoo of sex symbol/actor Ryan Gosling’s face on his leg.

Power play: Electric car subsidies a bad deal for taxpayers

Envisioning cars that can go “coast to coast without using a drop of oil,” President Barack Obama last week urged Congress to authorize an additional $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into weaning automobiles off gasoline. “The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices — the only way to break that cycle for good — is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,” the president said.

UNLV roundup: Plunked Aztec sinks UNLV baseball, 5-4

Jake Romanski was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to give San Diego State a 5-4 victory Sunday over the UNLV baseball team.

Undermanned Wranglers net shootout win

At the start of last season’s playoff run to the ECHL Kelly Cup Finals, the Wranglers were missing five players who were in the American Hockey League.

In Miracle League, runs, hits, smiles are plentiful

It was a couple of days before Thanksgiving when a young woman with red hair named Shanna Sabet arranged for me to speak with Shane Victorino, before he signed with the Red Sox, about his charity work in Las Vegas.

Girl, 9, finds help after SUV crash kills father

LOS ANGELES — A 9-year-old girl crawled out of a mangled SUV, climbed out of a canyon and walked about a mile in the middle of the night to find help after surviving a highway crash that killed her father in Southern California, authorities said.

Penalty phase starts in murder case

KINGMAN, Ariz. — Jury deliberations are scheduled to begin today in the penalty phase of a trial for a man convicted of first-degree murder in the 2009 stabbing death of the 18-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend.

Lawmakers debate extending life span of downtown agency

A proposal downtown Las Vegas boosters view as a no-brainer still faces plenty of skepticism in the Legislature and even at City Hall.

What to do if you overdo your first impression

An aspiring software developer was interviewing by telephone with Jerry Masin, then- president of an information technology career school. The man was discussing his portfolio in excruciating detail. Almost overwhelmed by this highly skilled person, Masin whisked him off the telephone. He maintains that the incident illustrates the danger of coaching that leads to becoming “overprepared and overheated.”

Bicycle-bound security forces keep parking lots safe

He’s the guy in the black cargo pants, neon green shirt and the Cannondale mountain bike as his vehicle and there’s a chance that Lino Haynes will be the first employee who greets you at Red Rock Resort in Summerlin.