Silverton drawing has $10,000 top prize; senior promotions offered

Every Friday and Saturday night through Aug. 29, the Silverton will draw 30 tickets to win various amounts of cash and prizes, including a nightly top prize of $10,000. Please check the rules regarding how tickets are earned and whether players must be present at the drawings to win. On any day of the week (4 p.m.-10 p.m.), all silver, gold, platinum or diamond Discovery Club members can buy one meal and get one free at all Silverton restaurants.

Durant comfortable at Team USA camp

Twenty players took the basketball court Thursday at Valley High School, and 19 looked nervous. The other one looked like he was playing H-O-R-S-E in his driveway.

IN BRIEF

SOCCER

Young Jr. inherits dad’s base-stealing art

Eric Young was one of baseball’s best base stealers during 15 years in the major leagues, leading the National League with 53 steals in 1996 and topping 50 two more times.

Supreme team wins without pair

California Supreme opened the Reebok Summer Championships on Thursday without UCLA recruit Tyler Lamb or Southern California recruit Dwayne Polee Jr.

LVMS cuts ticket prices for ’10 Sprint Cup race

Tickets for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be the lowest priced in the event’s 13-year history, facility officials announced.

Centennial’s Vozzola continues to blossom

The friendship formed by Rudy Vozzola and Sam Smith didn’t end with their student days at Clark High School in the early 1970s.

Rebate shops endanger tournaments

The future of horse handicapping tournaments is not as rosy as it was. What was once a slam dunk win-win scenario between the host casino or racetrack and the horseplayers has come undone. And it’s the players’ fault.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT DEL MAR

LEFTOVERS LeBron has ‘diva tendencies’

LeBron James seems to be gearing up for a move to New York City when his contract runs out with the Cleveland Cavaliers at the end of next season.

Roethlisberger: Allegation ‘false, vicious’

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said Thursday allegations by a Lake Tahoe casino hostess that he raped her a year ago are “reckless and false.”

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Obama to reverse Bush policy hamstringing Nevada as conference locale

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he’s outraged at the insensitivity of the travel policy of the Bush administration to Nevada’s resort industry after learning Department of Justice memos cautioned officials to avoid conferences at “locations known for gambling” and “resort locations.”

Month of violence revealed

A jury learned Thursday that a convicted killer on trial for murder is accused of going on a violent crime spree in Las Vegas in 2006 that left three dead, including two Hispanic laborers slain during robberies.

Demolition work starts at Lady Luck site

The CIM Group, a California development company in charge of redeveloping the Lady Luck casino, started tearing down a concrete-and-steel building skeleton at the corner of Fourth Street and Stewart Avenue that Mayor Oscar Goodman recently referred to as a “carcass.”

Lambert knows critters, music

One of the best put-downs in country circles is “All hat and no cattle.” That’s when a poseur puts on a hat with city slicker hands. But country star Miranda Lambert is the opposite. She’s no hat and all cattle.

Man gets life term in shooting

A 21-year-old man convicted of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a man outside a party was sentenced Thursday to spend life in prison with the possibility of parole after 49 years.

One person dies in crash near Sloan

A car containing three people left the roadway and careened down a 30-foot embankment, killing one person, on Las Vegas Boulevard near Sloan on Thursday.

Mother held on charge of murder

An 18-year-old Nye County woman accused by authorities of being responsible for her 2-month-old daughter’s death has been charged with murder, officials at the Nye County sheriff’s office said Thursday.

School district seeks to issue new bonds

The Clark County School District is seeking approval to issue up to $249 million in new bonds for construction projects.

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