We don't regularly tally the corrections in the Las Vegas Sun, because frankly, they're so few and far between.

That said, the paper had two doozies on July 8.

"Sun stories published June 30 and July 4 included incorrect information about the salary and raises that the Southern Nevada Health District Board approved for Dr. Lawrence Sands, the district's chief health officer.

The board did not raise his salary from $225,000 to $255,096 in late June. The board did approve a new contract that denoted that change in his base salary, but his salary at the time of that approval was already $247,665 as a result of cost-of-living raises that the board had given him that mirrored the percentages of cost-of-living raises given to other Health District employees in each of the two prior years.

The story also incorrectly noted that Sands had turned down the $30,000 raise the day after the board approved his new contract. In fact what he turned down was a $7,420 cost-of-living raise."

This story was reported by Joe Schoenmann -- the reporter who covers Clark County. Schoenmann wrote the piece June 30 about the political griping about the raises by elected officials who serve on the Health District Board.

We couldn't find the correction online today and Schoenmann's original articles still have the error.

The paper also ran a Clarification today.

"A June 30 story on a lawsuit seeking to block the merger of Continental Airlines and United Airlines should have included that a settlement was reached in a 2088 lawsuit filed by airline ticket purchasers that sought a court order prohibiting the merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines. Although that lawsuit did not result in an order blocking the merger, plaintiff's attorney Joseph Alioto said it was successful nonetheless because the defendants offered a "very favorable settlement," and the plaintiffs accepted it. Terms of the settlement are confidential."

Business writer Steve Green wrote that story based on a Las Vegan's suit to halt the merger. The story was amended online.