WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news
A speeding car plowed into people waiting Thursday morning at a bus stop on Spring Mountain near Decatur Boulevard, killing four and injuring eight others.
By some estimates, the car was moving at 100 mph when it rolled and slammed into the sidewalk bench and sun shade on the south side of the street, where people waited.
Some of the victims were torn to pieces, their bodies thrown dozens of yards from the point of impact.
The driver, Gary Lee Hosey Jr., 23, had to be cut from the car and treated for injuries.
He was released from the hospital on Friday and hauled to the county jail to be held on four recommended charges of drunken driving causing death.
Monday
Teachers arrested
Two teachers were arrested, accused of having sex with a 16-year-old Basic High School student, Henderson police said.
Bambi Dewey, 32, and John Stalmach, 31, were each booked at the Henderson Detention Center on charges of solicitation of a minor for sex.
Stalmach also was booked on a charge of sexual conduct between a teacher and a student.
Police said Dewey and Stalmach are a couple and had sex with the teen girl at their home in Henderson. Stalmach also had sex with the girl without Dewey, police said.
Tuesday
Storm pummels valley
Record rainfall drenched the driest city in North America, stranding drivers and cars, delaying flights, swamping the county courthouse lobby and producing a wall of floodwater that swept a golf course maintenance man to his death.
Luis Lopez-Solis, 31, of Las Vegas, disappeared while he was working at Desert Rose Golf Course, along the Las Vegas Wash.
His body was discovered Thursday at a sewer treatment plant downstream, though there was some initial confusion about his identity because he also used the alias Calletano Lopez, 38.
At UNLV, a parking lot near the Thomas & Mack Center filled with several feet of water, submerging some vehicles to the bottoms of their doors and deeper.
Wednesday
A rally amid turmoil
President Barack Obama opened a campaign visit to Las Vegas by remembering four Americans who died in an attack on a U.S. Consulate in Libya, saying they gave their lives to uphold American values of freedom in a dangerous land.
He vowed the United States would bring those responsible to justice.
The 30-minute rally, which went from somber reflection to boisterous cheers, ended a day of crisis for the president after the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed Tuesday evening in Benghazi.
Thursday
Fallen man lived here
A former Navy SEAL who recently moved to Henderson was identified by the State Department as one of four Americans killed in the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
Tyrone S. Woods provided security at the consulate and died in the attack. He moved to Henderson in April with his family and had a child here.
Thursday night, the house was dark, but someone had left flowers at the front door.
Friday
Death ruled suicide
Northern California authorities said there was no foul play in the death of Las Vegas attorney David Amesbury, a defendant in the federal investigation into corruption at Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
The death of Amesbury, 57, has been ruled a suicide.
He pleaded guilty and was cooperating in the HOA investigation. He hanged himself March 25 at his brother's property in Grass Valley, Calif.
Five days earlier, the body of construction defects attorney Nancy Quon, 51, a key target of the investigation, was discovered in the bathtub of her Henderson condominium.
NUMBERS
2 million
How many copies of his "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs Joe Francis will have to sell, at $19.95 each, to pay casino mogul Steve Wynn $40 million in slander damages.
95
The age of billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian, the largest shareholder in MGM Resorts International, who recently got engaged to longtime friend Lu Beard.
8 months
Prison sentence for Michael Viera-Crespo Jr., 28, who pointed a laser light at aircraft landing at McCarran International Airport and at a police helicopter.
134 degrees
The high in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. It's the hottest temperature ever recorded now that the previous mark of 136 from Libya in 1922 has been disqualified.
QUOTES
"How fast do you have to be going to launch a person 80 feet and your car is that demolished? The bench is gone. It's like it never even existed."
Paul Lebel, who said he was one of the first people on the scene of Thursday's crash at a bus stop that left four people dead. He returned Friday to pay his respects.
"He had the hands of a healer as well as the arms of a warrior."
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, talking about former Navy Seal, medic and Henderson resident Tyrone S. Woods as his remains were returned to the United States after Tuesday's attack on the American consulate in Libya.
"Then we gave them some carrots. We gave them a healthy alternative."
Krystal Johnson, wild horse and burro specialist for the Bureau of Land Management, talking about three wild burros that were lured into a pen with a bag of pretzels during a roundup last week in Blue Diamond.
MULTIMEDIA
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VIDEO: Eyewitness video minutes after horrific bus stop crash in Las Vegas
VIDEO: Four people killed, several injured after car crashes into Las Vegas bus stop
VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW: President Barack Obama campaigns in Las Vegas
SLIDE SHOW: Aftermath of flooding in Las Vegas Valley
VIDEO: Breathing fire
VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW: Heavy rain causes road closures throughout Las Vegas Valley
VIDEO AND SLIDE SHOW: Sept. 11 memorials in Las Vegas
SLIDE SHOW: Funeral for Maria Del Carmen Gomez
