SAY WHAT?

"I just want people to take this seriously because it was definitely a murder."

Jennifer Barrier, 24, on the death of her father, auto mechanic and colorful lAS VEGAS character James "Buffalo Jim" Barrier, 55 (left), found dead a week ago by a maid in a Motel 6 room on South Boulder Highway, fully clothed and with a bottle of Valium in his possession. Although family and friends say Barrier had been receiving death threats, police responding to the scene concluded the death was not suspicious.

"It is my personal opinion that there were ample opportunities to intervene in a nonlethal way."

Witness Melanie Nelson, at Thursday's coroner's inquest into the FEB. 12 police shooting of 42-year-old Deshira Selimaj, shot and killed in front of her two young sons after being called to the scene of a Henderson traffic stop, where her husband was refusing to sign a traffic ticket.

"It's always seen so negatively, and to come to a place where it's legal makes you wonder if it should be. ... People keep asking me if this has changed my opinion about prostitution. I'm not sure I had an opinion on prostitution."

Randolph College sophomore Caitlin Clare, during a class tour of the Chicken Ranch brothel in Pahrump. Students from the private liberal arts college in Lynchburg, Va., also toured Hoover Dam, went backstage at the Bally's topless show "Jubilee!," and met with staffers for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"These are about the most ancient and bizarre frogs you can get on the planet. They are like a squished version of Jabba the Hutt. They are flat and have eyes that float above the water."

David Bickford, an evolutionary biologist at the National University of Singapore, on a lungless brown frog recently rediscovered on Borneo. The frog, which lives in fast-moving, well-oxygenated streams and breathes through its skin, was first discovered 30 years ago by Indonesian professor Djoko Iskandar, who has been searching for another one ever since.