A day after a mediation session went nowhere, both sides in the taxi drivers strike ratcheted up the pressure amid indications that another cab company also faces labor difficulties. Yellow Checker Star Transportation’s chief operating officer said the company, with the second-largest fleet in Las Vegas, would take a couple of days to identify drivers who walked out and replace them.
Custom Motor Creations is requesting a special-use permit for a proposed indoor auto sales business at 10050 Banburry Cross Drive in Summerlin, a business that will likely be opposed by the community’s developer at Tuesday’s planning commission hearing.
An inmate died Wednesday at University Medical Center after a Feb. 25 struggle with jail guards left him unconscious. Police said 38-year-old Luis Solanowas was uncooperative before the struggle at the jail ensued.
A Las Vegas police officer pulled a woman from a fire early Thursday morning.
About 460 students will be switching elementary schools this fall because of redrawn boundaries for nine southwest campuses. The rezoning will shuffle some students among Batterman, Bendorf, Bryan, Hayes, Hill, Kim, Ries, Roger and Wiener elementary schools. Forbuss, Reedom and Wright will be switching to year-round schedules to alleviate crowding.
Superintendent Dwight Jones said Wednesday he doesn’t want to leave the Clark County School District hanging, and that’s why he is resigning instead of taking a leave of absence to care for his ailing mother in Texas. Jones is ending his two-year tenure with two weeks’ notice, well short of the 90 days required by his contract.
CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Harvey Munford found some surprising opposition Wednesday to his bill to penalize students who cheat: the Clark County School District, the Nevada Association of School Superintendents and the Nevada System of Higher Education.
The North Las Vegas police officers who critically wounded a man in his home Sunday night after department officials said he fired at them were identified Wednesday as Robert Makinster and Christopher Coloma.
A Henderson officer suspended after he drove a damaged SWAT vehicle until it caught fire drove at least a mile and a half with sparks shooting from the car.
Win or lose, UNLV’s entry in a prestigious solar energy competition will have a nice, sunny place to come home to.
