Summerlin Hospital Medical Center wins national award

Summerlin Hospital Medical Center was recently awarded the 2008-2009 Consumer Choice Award by the National Research Corp. The award identifies hospitals that health care consumers have chosen as having the highest quality and image in more than 250 markets throughout the United States.

Holman boosts Rancho to win

Dijon Holman caught 11 passes for 163 yards and a score from his cousin James Cammack to lead the Rancho offense on Friday night.

HORSE RACING

OAK TREE AT SANTA ANITA

Busch reverses bad luck

CONCORD, N.C. — Make it 20 wins this season for Kyle Busch, NASCAR’s dominant workhorse.

IN BRIEF

GOLF

Gators sweat out Sunrise tiebreaker win

With a cold wind blowing, most of the participants bundled up in sweats Friday night to play the title-deciding tiebreaker in the Sunrise Region tournament at Darling Tennis Center.

‘Cats make fast recovery

The Las Vegas High football team spent 48 minutes on the field Friday, but it was one particular minute that made most of the difference.

Tarver’s chatter batters Dawson

The Barack Obama and John McCain camps have nothing on Antonio Tarver when it comes to hurling insults.

New-look Stewart same old winner

James Stewart raced with a new team and a different motorcycle for the first time Friday night.

Bonanza halts Palo Verde run

With the Sunset Region boys tennis title riding on the outcome of his match and his teammates wildly cheering him on Friday, Bonanza singles player Tommy Lettero said “I felt scared for my life.”

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

Count on Gators to be sharp

Expectations were as high as possible for Florida junior quarterback Tim Tebow this season. As a returning Heisman Trophy winner, that’s no surprise.

Cowboys to escape Big D — drama — long enough to cover

Dull moments are few and far between with the Dallas Cowboys, on and off the field, and the stars in the soap opera usually are quarterback Tony Romo and wide receiver Terrell Owens.

Recession could spur session

CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Friday he may have to call a special session of the Legislature following the Nov. 4 election to deal with a state economy that has dissipated into a recession.

in brief

16-YEAR-OLD STABBED TO DEATH

Horse advocates to meet with BLM

Instead of gathering free-roaming wild horses in Southern Nevada this weekend, Bureau of Land Management officials will attend a gathering of wild horse advocates to discuss what can be done to keep horses and burros crowding Western ranges from being killed by lethal injections.

Poll weighs impact of running mates

RENO — The vice presidential selections of Barack Obama and John McCain have little effect on voter preference in Nevada, according to a statewide poll released Friday.

Simpson attends jail prayer service

O.J. Simpson was allowed to leave isolation to attend a worship service during his first week in jail, it was learned Friday.

Sinking economy distresses voters

Bob Hechter’s Oak World furniture store on East Flamingo Road flourished under the Clinton administration and is going out of business under the Bush administration.

CORRECTION

A photo caption in Friday’s Review-Journal indicated an incorrect location for the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, home to the new Mojave Max. The Bureau of Land Management says the center is at an undisclosed facility in the south Las Vegas Valley that is not open to the public.

Special ed teachers needed

Todd Yocum’s autistic 8-year-old son has had six teachers since he started pre-school at age 3. Only two of them were licensed to teach autistic children, Yocum said, and the rest were substitutes.

After pot find, workers held at gunpoint

Three Bureau of Land Management biologists were held at gunpoint by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after stumbling upon a marijuana garden in a remote area of Northern Nevada on Tuesday.

Colon, Perez get life sentences

A jury Friday spared the life of the man accused of beating to death his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter and then dumping her in a trash bin. Instead, the jury sentenced Marc Anthony Colon to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 slaying of Crystal Figueroa, also known as Jane “Cordova” Doe.

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