WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news

A 51-year-old Boulder City woman jumped to her death from the Hoover Dam bypass bridge Monday, rekindling debate over whether safety measures are needed on the 900-foot-tall span.

There were no reported suicides from the bridge in the 15 months after it opened in October 2010. But since April, four people have scaled the concrete-and-metal railing and leaped into the Colorado River, including two suicides within the past two weeks.

Nevada Department of Transportation officials said they plan to discuss potential preventive measures, including costly solutions such as netting or fencing or less expensive options such as suicide hotline phones.

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman Rose Davis said her agency recently received grant money to install a dozen call boxes.

Dr. Richard Seiden, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, believes countermeasures could save lives at the bridge, which he said has potential to become a suicide landmark similar to the Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building or Niagara Falls.

Monday

Police shoot fugitive

Henderson police shot and killed a homicide suspect during an attempted arrest by a fugitive task force.

Two police officers shot 43-year-old Andy Puente Soto after a short car chase ended with him trying to carjack a woman at Boulder Highway and Warm Springs Road, authorities said.

Soto was wanted in the stabbing death of Scott Gerald Harrison, 36, whose body was found July 4 in the desert about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

Tuesday

We're Number 50!

Nevada's ranking for public education hit rock bottom in a new national study on children's well-being.

Silver State schools ranked 50th in the nation in the annual Kids Count report.

Nevada's overall standing fell eight spots to 48th in the nation. Only Mississippi and New Mexico have worse environments for children, according to the study.

Wednesday

High-rise rescue

A high-rise rescue played out in the heart of the Strip, as firefighters repelled from the roof of the Vdara hotel at CityCenter to free four window washers trapped outside the 35th floor.

The unidentified window washers called 911 shortly before noon after the mechanism that raises and lowers the washer box they were in malfunctioned.

The last window washer was strapped into a harness and, while connected to a firefighter by a rope, brought down to the third level of the Vdara shortly before 3 p.m.

Thursday

Caught on camera

In an exchange captured on video, a nonprofit manager kissed a woman against her will and attempted to coerce her into sex in exchange for signing off on her court-mandated community service hours, according to a North Las Vegas police report.

The 24-year-old woman was appalled and frightened by 59-year-old Benedetto Vitale's actions Sunday morning at Safe Nest's donation center in North Las Vegas, so she videotaped him with her cellphone while he made lurid suggestions to her, according to the report.

Friday

One dead in shooting

A woman was killed and a man wounded in a shooting in the west valley that was reported by the woman's 10-year-old son.

Las Vegas police said the boy told a neighbor that his father had shot his mother and a family friend at their house in the 300 block of Altamira Road, near Alta and Buffalo drives.

A police spokesman said authorities didn't know what might have spurred the shooting.