City gives Newport an ‘Oscar’

Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman recognized the 24-story Newport Lofts residential development with a Mayor’s Urban Design Award in the category of Buildings and Their Environs.

Fans seeking face time

From the utterly creepy news department: London’s Daily Mail reported Wednesday on the appearance of a pair of peculiar tennis fans.

Referee takes beating for Soto bout ruling

Joe Cortez has taken such a public beating in the aftermath of his decision to disqualify Humberto Soto and award the decision to Francisco Lorenzo in their WBC interim super featherweight title bout June 28 at Mandalay Bay, it was as though Cortez had been fighting instead of officiating.

HORSE RACING

TODAY AT HOLLYWOOD PARK

Arum claims MGM Mirage putting freeze on Top Rank

Rebuffed in his attempt to bring Manny Pacquiao back to Las Vegas in November, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum is accusing MGM Mirage officials of conspiring with rival promoter Golden Boy Promotions to keep his company out.

ON TV/RADIO

BASEBALL

51s bomb Sky Sox bullpen, halt three-game losing streak

Terry Tiffee had two-out RBI hits in consecutive four-run innings Friday night to help the 51s to a 10-6 Pacific Coast League victory over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Barkley is miffed by debt publicity

Former NBA star Charles Barkley says Wynn Las Vegas and Clark County District Attorney David Roger “will get theirs” for the way they handled his $400,000 gambling debt.

Revelers have a blast

Freedom is a water gun shootout on the Fourth of July.

Human link is cited in past Tahoe wildfires

RENO — Unlike California’s recent barrage of lightning-caused blazes, most of the Reno-Lake Tahoe area’s major wildfires in recent decades have been sparked by humans, fire officials said.

Budget woes generate consolidation thoughts

A few months ago, while reviewing Las Vegas’ fiscal woes, Mayor Oscar Goodman mused about the future of Southern Nevada and wondered whether radical change was needed.

IN BRIEF

NORTH LAS VEGAS INCIDENT

More teach at home

When her 12-year-old son, Logan, was struggling to understand fractions, Chrissy Swanke ordered an unsliced pizza and demonstrated the meaning of one-eighth and one-fourth by cutting sections from the pie.

Ex-TV star loses sign appeal

MINDEN — Former “Beverly Hillbillies” star Max Baer Jr. has lost an appeal over an outdoor sign for a hotel-casino he’s trying to build in Northern Nevada.

Let’s deal the cards

It started in 1970 with 30 players and little attention. Today it has evolved into perhaps the signature event for Las Vegas, featuring thousands of participants, dozens of events and millions of TV spectators.

LIFE ON THE HEDGE

DALLAS — The computer screen on Scott Topping’s desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and departures.

Ex-commissioner accused of misusing investor cash

A former Nye County commissioner allegedly misappropriated $2.4 million from a group of 30 to 40 investors primarily from Pahrump and Las Vegas, according to a lawsuit filed in District Court.

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