Two superintendent candidates scrutinized at public forums

Two finalists for Clark County School District superintendent began a marathon of public scrutiny Wednesday in their bids to take the helm of the nation’s fifth-largest school system.

Man pleads no contest to firing shots at Minxx strip club

A Washington man pleaded no contest to charges he fired shots during a strip club melee in February 2007 that ensnared professional football player Adam “Pacman” Jones.

Two new dinosaur species discovered in southern Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — Scientists said Wednesday they’ve discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head. The discovery of the new plant-eating species – including Kosmoceratops richardsoni, considered the most ornate-headed dinosaur known to man – was reported Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, produced by the Public Library of Science.

Scott portrayed in inquest as depressed man addicted to painkillers

Erik Scott ignored several commands from police officers telling him to “get on the ground” and then pulled out a gun and “aimed it straight at the officer,” a Costco employee Colleen Kullberg testified Wednesday at the Clark County coroner’s inquest into Scott’s death.

Police: Indiana kids died after 10 hours in closet

INDIANAPOLIS — A woman charged in the deaths of two of her children allegedly locked them and three siblings inside a small closet and left to visit a friend, returning about 10 hours later to find the boy and girl dead inside.