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Northeast valley
Las Vegas police investigating apparent murder-suicide
Las Vegas police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that occurred in the northeast valley Saturday afternoon.
Officers were called to a neighborhood near Sandhill and Twain avenues about 3:55 p.m. after a report of a deceased woman inside a home, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Steve Herpolsheimer. Officers found the body and when checking the rest of the residence in the 3800 block of Catamaran Circle, discovered a man inside the garage with a gunshot wound to the head.
The man, who showed signs of life when he was found, died in the ambulance en route to the hospital.
Herpolsheimer said both the man and woman appeared to be in their 40s. He said it appears to be a murder-suicide, but the relationship between the two is unknown.
"There were two people dead inside the house," Herpolsheimer said. "We assume they may know each other but until we complete the investigation, we don't know."
Police investigation
Oregon man faces 219 child porn, sex abuse charges
A Bend, Ore., man faces 219 child pornography and sex abuse charges in an investigation that began with police on the Oregon coast.
David Anthony Windham was being held on $5.3 million bail Saturday at the Deschutes County Jail in Bend.
Deschutes County sheriff's Lt. Erik Utter told KTVZ-TV in Bend that detectives were contacted Wednesday by Port Orford police who were investigating the 43-year-old Windham.
Based on their information, Deschutes County detectives began an investigation and on Thursday raided Windham's home near Bend.
Examining the evidence from the raid led to the additional charges.
Odor Complaints
Residents appeal decision over expansion of oil refining plant
A group of Churchill County residents is appealing a county board's decision allowing an expansion at an oil refining plant accused of causing a nasty odor.
County commissioners on Monday will hear objections to the planning commission's approval of an amended special use permit for Bango Oil.
The action allows the company to install one new burner that will increase processing of recycled fuel oil from 22,000 gallons to 62,000 gallons a day.
