Sunday, March 30, 1997 To read a story, HIGHLIGHT headline and click READ. Off and runnin': 20th anniversary of the 1976-77 ... Legislature weighs bill to end judge elections Police: Crime on decline at university This week Paving to close Alexander Clergy facing big challenge on Easter COLUMN: John L. Smith Crime wave strikes near UNLV Blaze leaves 30 homeless Off and runnin': Family ties bind Smiths to UNLV ... Off and runnin': The one that got away IN BRIEF Deaths Prison chiefs tighten security 911 hang-up draws probe Nevada briefs Boy falls 100 feet to death Two-day festival spotlights black heritage ----------END----------
	A Clark County firefighter attacks an apartment fire from the roof Saturday night. The two-alarm blaze at Desert Springs Apartments started in a pan of potatoes and went on to leave 30 residents in southeast Las Vegas homeless. Photos by Craig L. Moran.	Blaze leaves 30 homeless A grease fire in a woman's apartment spawned a massive blaze that swept through a Las Vegas complex Saturday night, leaving 30 people homeless.       Clark County Fire Department Battalion Chief Chad Marshall said the two-alarm fire in Building 16 of the Desert Springs Apartments, 1500 E. Harmon Ave., broke out at 6:12 p.m. It took firefighters about 80 minutes to contain the blaze, which caused $300,000 in damage and destroyed all 12 apartments in the building. FULL TEXT Crime wave strikes near UNLV A rash of violent crimes has hit the neighborhoods surrounding UNLV in the past eight months, leaving some residents wondering how safe they are in their homes.       In the last year, there have been at least nine homicides in the area immediately surrounding the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. All happened within the past eight months. FULL TEXT
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