WEEK IN REVIEW: Top News

Amelia "Mia" Decker, 6, died Monday at University Medical Center, three days after she and two other children were hit by a car while in a crosswalk.

Sisters Alyssa Mowery, 5, and Rain Mowery, 6, were also struck by the car, near Tropical Parkway and Camino Eldorado in North Las Vegas. The Mowery sisters were hospitalized with severe injuries.

Police reported that the driver, a 78-year-old woman in a 2007 Honda, did not brake before entering the crosswalk.

Police have not released the driver's name because she has not been charged. Toxicology tests are pending.

Monday

Presidential Visit

President Barack Obama visited Lissette and Jose Bonilla on Monday at their Las Vegas home.

The Bonillas told the president they were grateful for his Neighborhood Stabilization Program, which they said fixed up the house they bought for $95,000. It also helped them make the down payment, they said.

Obama used his Las Vegas visit to announce expanding a program to help people stay in their homes. He said the federal aid program would allow some homeowners who are underwater to refinance.

Tuesday

Higher ed hemorrhage

Nevada's colleges and universities are almost 10,000 students smaller this fall than last fall, new enrollment figures show.

Officials cited a host of reasons, all of them related to the down economy. Tuition is up, budget cuts have made programs smaller, and students are choosing work over education, the officials said.

The state's community colleges took the brunt of the decline in enrollment. The College of Southern Nevada lost the most students, a drop of more than 5,000. Nevada State College and the University of Nevada, Reno, saw modest increases in enrollment.

Wednesday

Mayweather Not Guilty

Boxer Floyd Mayweather was found not guilty of two counts of misdemeanor harassment stemming from an obscenity-laced confrontation with security guards over parking tickets.

Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Diana Sullivan said evidence in the case did not show that the witnesses who testified against Mayweather were in fear.

Mayweather still faces trouble in other cases. Those include misdemeanor battery and felony coercion, grand larceny and robbery.

He has twice before been convicted on charges relating to violence against women.

Thursday

Hazing on campus

Western High School's football program will forfeit its season after a player's hazing was discovered.

Seven players were not allowed back in school , but at least two have returned.

According to team members who spoke anonymously, the incident involved some team members taping a smaller player to a chair. When he grew uncomfortable and asked to be released, the sources said, his teammates refused and taunted him. They wheeled him into the school's quad and laughed at him, the sources said.

He reported the incident to school officials.

Friday

Mushroom house death

A man was found dead in a grow house for illegal "magic mushrooms," police said.

Police said the man's roommate at 840 King Richard Ave. called authorities after the man stopped breathing.

When officers arrived, they discovered the grow operation, which contained a psilocybin mushroom manufacturing lab.

Police said several ounces of the hallucinogenic fungus were processed and ready for sale.