IN BRIEF
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
Voter registration for city election starts
Voter registration for the June 2 Las Vegas municipal election is under way and will continue until Tuesday.
People who haven't registered can go to the city clerk's office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Extended hours of 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. begin Thursday and continue through Tuesday, including Saturday and Sunday.
The clerk's office is on the first floor of City Hall, 400 Stewart Ave., in downtown Las Vegas.
Voters who have moved since registering to vote should contact the Clark County Election Department at 455-8683 by Tuesday.
At the moment, the only race on the ballot is for Ward 4 of the City Council, and only Ward 4 residents can vote in that race. There is a continuing legal effort to put two citywide ballot measures before voters, however.
Early voting begins May 16 and continues until May 29. May 26 is the last day to request an absentee ballot.
For more information, call the city clerk's office at 229-6311.
54-YEAR-OLD KILLED
Man sentenced in slaying of girlfriend
A 46-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 25 years in prison, plus an additional eight to 20 years because he used a deadly weapon.
Brian O'Keefe was sentenced for killing 54-year-old Victoria Whitmarsh of Las Vegas in November at the Casa Salvatore Apartments near Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard.
A jury in March convicted O'Keefe of second-degree murder in the slaying.
59-YEAR-OLD VICTIM
Woman dies when truck hits semitrailer
A 59-year-old died early Monday when the pickup she was driving struck the back of a tractor-trailer on St. Rose Parkway, Henderson police said.
The crash occurred about 6 a.m. just west of Eastern Avenue, where the unidentified woman was driving east on St. Rose in a Ford truck.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
MAN KILLED
Woman gets prison in drunken driving case
A Fort Mojave Indian tribal member was sentenced to three years in prison Monday for her role in a fatal drunken driving accident on a reservation outside Bullhead City, Ariz.
Mary Anne Fernandez, 31, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Murguia in Phoenix after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Fernandez struck and killed a 53-year-old man in a wheelchair in July, authorities said.
Fernandez fled the scene but was later arrested. Authorities said Fernandez's blood alcohol level was 0.229, almost three times Arizona's legal limit of 0.08.
FUNDING AT ISSUE
Contractor for Nellis lays off employees
A Nellis Air Force Base range contractor laid off nearly two dozen workers last month because funding levels didn't exceed 2008 levels and were insufficient to handle inflation, salary adjustments and material costs.
The North Las Vegas contractor, CSC Applied Technologies, "had to lay off approximately 20 people providing a variety of support services throughout the Nevada Test and Training Range complex," Nellis spokesman Chuck Ramey said Tuesday.
