DETROIT — General Motors Corp.’s Saturn brand will either be sold or phased out by the end of this year, nearly two years faster than previously announced, the brand’s top executive said.
• WHEN: 7:05 p.m. today; 7:05 p.m. Friday; 7:05 p.m. Saturday; 12:05 p.m. Sunday
Eye magnets is a good way to describe Tejas deco Art’s vibrantly colored glass art.
: I was in a model home and saw some beautiful valance boxes above some windows. I found some similar ones but they were horribly expensive. Anyway, I have decided to try making them myself. Can you give any hints on building these?
Come and join me, some of our volunteers and Slow Food Las Vegas on Sunday and eat a cactus! The University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will have a Tres de Mayo celebration from 1-4 p.m. at the Lifelong Learning Center, 8050 Paradise Road, Suite 100.
• ARBOR VIEW — Boys track athlete Adonis Gaines won the 3,200 meters and was second in the 1,600 at the Sunset Region Freshman/Sophomore Championships. Girls track athlete Andrea Gonzlaez was fourth in the 3,200 at the Sunset Region Freshman/Sophomore Championships.
Palo Verde boys basketball star Moses Morgan is still researching the colleges recruiting him, but the junior swingman hasn’t had to look far for advice on Indiana.
A football standout from Bishop Gorman High School reached a plea agreement Wednesday that could lead to the dismissal of all felonies he faces in connection with an attack on his former girlfriend.
Avione Allgood wasn’t much interested in the shot put or discus when she took up track and field at age 6. At that stage, she was all track, no field.
Texas officials on Wednesday postponed all public high school athletic and academic competitions until May 11 because of the swine flu outbreak.
UNLV’s Dwaine Knight has coached golf long enough to know the surest path to a berth in the NCAA Championships is to win the league tournament.
For nearly three weeks, Bonanza’s softball team has tried to regain the effort and confidence it displayed in winning a spring break tournament.
Overcoming a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-7 playoff series is difficult at best.
• LAKE MEAD — Strong winds kept most anglers at home over the past week. Those who braved the conditions caught stripers in the Vegas Bay arm. Sand Island, Boxcar Cove, Crawdad Cove and Government Wash also have been producing fish. Cut baits such as anchovies, sardines and squid have been the most productive.
Cimarron-Memorial wrestler Britain Longmire was named the Nevada winner of the Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and USA Wrestling.
About three years ago, a frustrated fisherman looked on as a group of anglers filleted their catch over the whirling blades of the fish cleaning station at Lake Mead. He wondered how they always seemed to reel in such nice catches.
RENO — A 2-year-old Reno area girl who on Wednesday became Nevada’s first confirmed swine flu case is “playing like a normal child” at home, an adult cousin of the toddler said at an evening news conference at the Washoe County Health District.
As Manny Pacquiao addressed the media Wednesday at the final news conference for Saturday’s junior welterweight showdown with Ricky Hatton, one spectator in the general audience paid especially close attention. Dionisia Pacquiao, 59, is always interested in what her son has to say. That he usually doesn’t say much is fine by her. It means she raised Manny properly.
The idea that his North Las Vegas pig farm could be mentioned in the same breath as a growing swine flu outbreak has Bob Combs squealing in protest.
Money laundering charges against former North Las Vegas Municipal Court Chief Marshal Ricardo Bonvicin were dismissed Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — An experimental drug greatly increased the number of people who appeared to be cured of hepatitis C infection, according to results of midstage testing.
Move over Bart Simpson, Snoopy, Underdog and other inflatable floats.
With his 28-foot-tall creation bearing a steel eagle with a 9-foot wingspan perched behind him, artist Adolfo R. Gonzalez’s face lit up when he talked about the memorial to fallen Southern Nevada police officers Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Dina Titus’ first bill in Congress seeks to get out information on how homeowners may qualify for help to reduce their monthly payments and avoid foreclosure.
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