IN BRIEF
JOINED CITY IN 1998
Cervantes tapped as new public works chief
Jorge Cervantes, the Las Vegas city engineer and deputy director of the public works department, has been tapped to become the city's new director of public works.
He would replace Charles Kajkowski, who retires May 16 after working for the city almost 36 years. Cervantes' appointment is scheduled to be ratified by the Las Vegas City Council on May 21.
Cervantes joined the city of Las Vegas in 1998 as a project manager and was promoted to assistant city traffic engineer in 1999. He became city engineer/deputy director in 2006, the same year Kajkowski took the director's job.
A civil engineer, Cervantes was one of the first in Nevada to achieve Professional Traffic Operations Engineer certification from the Institute of Transportation Engineers in 2000. He is licensed as a professional engineer in Nevada and Texas.
He earned both a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in business administration at the University of Texas at El Paso.
INTERSTATE 15 NEAR SLOAN
Henderson man who walked into traffic ID'd
A man who died Monday after he walked into traffic on Interstate 15 near Sloan has been identified as 41-year-old Alan Charles Archambeau of Henderson.
Archambeau was hit by a commercial truck at 1:19 p.m. while standing or walking in the right, southbound travel lane, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Investigators did not know why he was on the highway, but they were looking into all possibilities, including whether it was a deliberate act, according to trooper Kevin Honea. The Clark County coroner's office had not determined a manner of death by Thursday.
Troopers found an abandoned pickup with California license plates a few hundred feet from where Archambeau was hit, but Honea said he didn't know whether the truck belonged to Archambeau.
DEATH INVESTIGATED
Body found in burning car in Nye County
Nye County sheriff's detectives and the Nevada state fire marshal are investigating the death of a person whose body was found in a burning car off a desert road.
The charred body was found late Wednesday, but authorities were not sure whether it was a male or a female. A sheriff's detective said the four-door sedan was burned so badly it's not even clear what kind of car it was.
The fire was reported about 7:30 p.m. on Bell Vista Road near Woodchips Street. The road is a popular route from Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas, to Death Valley National Park.
Firefighters doused the burning car and a small wildfire around it before finding the body inside.
SHAKE, RATTLE AND RENO
3.8 magnitude quake jolts Northern Nevada
Just when residents in northwest Reno thought a series of earthquakes was starting to settled down, the region was jolted again.
The 3.8 magnitude temblor was reported a 10:55 p.m. Wednesday, and was centered near the Verdi-Mogul area.
It's the latest in a swarm of earthquakes that have rattled the area since late February.
There were no reports of serious damage or injuries.
