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Jennifer Stream and the pit orchestra provide the accompaniment for “Guys and Dolls.” The group consists mostly of underclassmen, Stream said; they stepped up when upperclassmen were “maxed out” on activities. The romance between mission ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of a permit for a Utah coal plant this week spells trouble for three coal-fired power plants proposed in Nevada. Environmentalists are hailing the decision, released Thursday by the EPA’s ...

Clark County Commissioner Chip Maxfield feels the water from a well that feeds a stream in Spring Valley inhabited by the Pahrump poolfish during a September tour of northern water resources. One of the few places in the world the endangered Pahrump ...

Rock bottom came last winter, in mid-February, when temperatures were plummeting well below zero and Shawn Carr’s spirits were sinking even lower. For four months he had been “sofa surfing,” sleeping at friends’ places or hooking up with ...

For four months he had been "sofa surfing," sleeping at friends' places or hooking up with different women and living with them for as long as they'd let him. But on Valentine's Day he had no girlfriend and nowhere to go. The $500 a month he was ...

Breaking with the recent stream of bad news, disk drive manufacturers Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Seagate Technologies all announced encrypting hard drives over the past few weeks. The three disk drive amigos announced a number of new models featuring ...

This is a fantasy column, and so I think we need to make special note of it when a player -- in this case Dwight Howard -- puts up a number that makes you take multiple glances at the box score to make sure you aren't seeing things. Howard put up an ...

The Royal Standard in Ely, Cambs, has been threatened with a £5,000 fine because it only has an entertainment licence for singing and not speaking. The threat forced landlord Richard Whitmore to call time on the poetry group, called Turning Point ...

So the subtext is revealed. The real reason for inviting Peter Mandelson back into government was to get him to spill the beans on the Conservative leadership's connections with the elite and the super-rich. If Lord Mandelson does nothing else for ...

Bruce Ely / The Oregonian Blazers athletic trainer Jay Jensen attends to Rudy Fernandez after the shooting guard sprained his ankle Wednesday night. Fernandez's injury came the same day the Blazers learned small forward Martell Webster would be out ...