IN BRIEF

Augusta State won its first NCAA Division I men’s golf national championship after Oklahoma State’s Kevin Tway missed a 3-foot putt on a playoff hole to hand Mitch Krywulycz the match and the Jaguars a 3-1-1 victory Sunday in Ooltewah, Tenn.

Budget ‘facts’? Let’s take another look

To the editor: Michael Maze’s Thursday letter claiming to present “Budget facts” is a ridiculous attempt to rewrite history based on a personally biased perspective.

CLARIFICATION

In Howard Stutz’s Inside Gaming column in Sunday’s Review-Journal, the last paragraph should read, “(Federal bankruptcy Judge Gregg) Zive oversaw the recent Herbst Gaming bankruptcy. In that case, he approved a reorganization plan giving the senior lenders control of the entire company.”

Hamlin too fast for field

LONG POND, Pa. — Denny Hamlin is so enamored with the No. 11 Toyota he won with Sunday at Pocono, he wants to keep it when it’s finally taken out of the rotation.

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BASEBALL

Bryce Harper’s ferry to sail today

It was not a decision made hastily by Bryce Harper and his family. The call to leave Las Vegas High School after his sophomore year and become a full-blown baseball prospect was the result of careful consideration and planning.

Running scared

Members of Congress return to Washington today after a 10-day recess, having left many budget issues in limbo.

RANKING THE REBELS: 71 – Trevor Diggs

Years: 1999 to 2001, Career highlights: Scored 878 points in two-year career; led team in steals both years and in assists as a senior.

IN BRIEF

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Nguyen wins title at Rio

Seven turned out to be the lucky number for the poker player known as “The Master.”

Lowden questions Angle resume item

Two dozen years ago, Glenda Haley taught children at a one-room Christian school in a converted classroom at the Word of Light church in Winnemucca.

Angle, Lowden, Tarkanian press the flesh, aim to get out their voters

Sharron Angle ducks under a tent canopy protecting Las Vegans from the scorching sun as they watch a couple of dozen cute karate kids perform on stage at Lorenzi Park. She swoops in on Elita Pallasigui and thrusts out her right hand for a shake.

Ohio tornado kills 7, wrecks cop cars, graduation

MILLBURY, Ohio — A tornado unleashed a “war zone” of destruction in northwest Ohio, destroying dozens of homes and an emergency services building as a line of storms killed at least seven people and briefly threatened the Northeast on Sunday.

Porn actor falls to his death at police standoff

LOS ANGELES — Surrounded by a SWAT team on a rocky cliff, a porn actor suspected of killing a colleague last week fell some 40 feet to his death, ending a dramatic, daylong standoff with police outside Los Angeles.

Polish priest tortured and killed by communists in 1984 sainted

WARSAW, Poland — Thousands of Poles filled a vast sunbathed square in Warsaw on Sunday for the beatification of Jerzy Popieluszko, a charismatic priest tortured and killed in 1984 by communist Poland’s secret police for supporting Lech Walesa’s Solidarity freedom movement.

Australia launches privacy investigation of Google

SYDNEY — Australia announced a police investigation Sunday into whether Google illegally collected private information from wireless networks, becoming at least the second country to probe the Internet giant’s “Street View” mapping service.

Record heat roasts Las Vegas valley

A high-pressure system brought record high temperatures Sunday, with record temperatures expected to continue today.