WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

SOMETIMES COPS COME ARMED WITH ... turkeys. Frozen ones. Hundreds of them.

Dozens of uniformed Metropolitan Police Department officers distributed more than 400 turkey dinners to families in need Monday.

Karen Moctezuma, when she heard the knock at her door at the Wood Lake Apartments in the central valley and saw officer Sam Diaz in uniform, first thought her younger brother was in trouble.

"Thank God it was only a turkey, and not Juan. Phew," said Moctezuma, dropping the name of her brother but relieved all the same.

TOM RAGAN

UNDER THE HEADING OF "WHOOPS!" comes this gem: Las Vegas police sent an email Tuesday to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KLAS-TV, 8NewsNow, promising a 20-minute head start with a mug shot of an Arizona murder suspect who had been arrested on the Strip earlier in the day. Shortly thereafter, the newspaper posted the mug shot with its story.

But the information appeared on KTNV-TV, Channel 13's website, rather than on Channel 8's.

The police agency had actually plugged in the rival news station's email address instead.

KRISTI JOURDAN

SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER LARANNE REMLING was shocked Wednesday when her 17-year-old student, Ana, didn't have to be told to do her work. And she smiled the whole time, which never happens.

The teacher, being interviewed for a story about her Educator of the Month award, soon realized what had changed when Ana looked up and smiled at the male Review-Journal reporter.

"Are you flirting?" said Remling, which turned Ana's cheeks red.

Remling told the reporter and photographer to come back every day.

TREVON MILLARD