Las Vegas police have a special unit targeting drunken parties where teens flock together by the dozens — or sometimes the hundreds. The Metropolitan Police Department’s party crashing patrol has responded to more than 180 party-related calls throughout the valley since becoming active in March. Police formed the patrol after two 17-year-old girls were shot and killed at separate parties earlier this year.
SAN DIEGO — The City Council will consider letting the air out of “floatopia” parties that involve thousands of people boozing it up on inner tubes just offshore. The council was scheduled to meet Monday to consider closing a loophole in the city ban on drinking at the beach. An amended version would ban seagoing boozing by floaters, swimmers, waders and bodysurfers up to three nautical miles offshore. People on boats would be exempted.
A $120,000 settlement between the Metropolitan Police Department and the man originally accused of drunken driving in a fatal police crash was approved Monday by the agency’s Fiscal Affairs Committee.
LOS ANGELES — Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband says the actress remains in critical condition after receiving a blood transfusion. The 93-year-old Gabor received the transfusion Friday night.
MADRID — A Spanish man who underwent the world’s first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery. Identified only as Oscar, the 31-year-old spoke with considerable difficulty at a news conference. During the surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man. He has been unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.
