IN BRIEF
SAFE KIDS
Police, group offer inspections of child safety seats today
The Henderson Police Department is teaming up with Safe Kids Clark County to offer a free child safety seat check from 7 a.m. to noon today near Morrell Park, southeast of Boulder Highway and Lake Mead Parkway.
Officers will man a checkpoint near the park on Major Avenue at Harris Street to stop motorists and check to make sure children are in appropriate child seats or boosters.
Representatives from Safe Kids Clark County will be on hand to install child-safety seats and inspect installed seats free of charge.
State law requires every child under 6 years old or under 60 pounds to ride in an approved child restraint system but don't expect officers to write many tickets during today's event.
Police spokesman Keith Paul said the purpose of the checkpoint is to educate drivers and improve child safety, not punish people for breaking the rules.
ARIZONA ROAD WORK
Road widening on U.S. 93 likely to lead to delays
Road widening will continue today along U.S. Highway 93 south of Hoover Dam and is likely to cause delays for commuters between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., the Arizona Department of Transportation said.
Delays could be up to an hour as blasting and cleanup work are done.
Drivers are encouraged to slow down and be aware of stops for construction vehicles crossing the highway.
CLARK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTy
Ex-vice president to attend Jefferson-Jackson dinner
Former Vice President Al Gore will be in Las Vegas on March 27 for a dinner hosted by the Clark County Democratic Party.
Gore is scheduled to appear at the party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
Gore, who was vice president during the administration of President Bill Clinton, has become known as an activist seeking greater efforts to prevent global warming.
The event is at 7:15 p.m. in the Pavilion Ballroom at the Rio. Tickets are available at www.clarkdems.com.
Prices posted on the site range from $1,500 per seat to $10,000 for 10 seats.
CLARK COUNTY JAIL
Cost-cutting move limits hours that bails can be posted
Officials say they're cutting the overnight hours that people can post bail and be freed from jail.
Las Vegas Justice Court spokesman Michael Sommermeyer calls it a cost-saving move.
He said the court's Pretrial Services Division at the Clark County jail will shut down from midnight to 8 a.m.
That means friends, relatives and bail bond companies will be unable to post bail until the morning.
Sommermeyer said statistics show that most bails are posted after 8 a.m.
LAKE TAHOE
Deputy kills onrushing bear flushed from under condo
A sheriff's deputy at Lake Tahoe shot and killed a 600-pound black bear that rushed him after wildlife officials tried to flush the hibernating animal out from under a condominium.
Nevada wildlife biologist Carl Lackey said they found the 10-year-old male bear Tuesday under the home in the Bitterbrush development in Incline Village.
The bear made the surprise attack on the Washoe County deputy after it emerged from its makeshift den and wildlife officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
Lackey said the deputy fired the fatal gunshot just in the nick of time.
"One more step, and the bear would have been on him," he said.
FALSIFIED BANK DOCUMENTS
California man found guilty
in scheme to buy homes
A federal jury in Las Vegas has found a 68-year-old California man guilty in a fraud scheme involving straw buyers and mortgage applications, a prosecutor said.
U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said former United Technologists chief Calway William Cauley is due for sentencing May 17 after his conviction Friday on two conspiracy counts and three mail and bank fraud charges.
Bogden said that from November 2005 to December 2007, Cauley and others falsified bank documents and fraudulently obtained mortgages to buy houses in Nevada and California.
