Two students at different Clark County schools arrested for guns. The first incident Thursday occurred at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas at 7:30 a.m., just before school started. A male student at the school had left a duffel bag unattended, according to school police. The second incident happened around 1:30 p.m. at Desert Rose High School in North Las Vegas. A 17-year-old female was reported to school administrators.
Friday’s headlines: 2 students at different Clark County schools arrested for guns, Woman dies after tour bus hits her at east Las Vegas bus stop, Residents’ plan could create Nevada’s third-largest city
A billboard near Interstate 15 and Spring Mountain Road in Las Vegas was vandalized early Thursday morning, March 1, 2018. A protest group, INDECLINE, claimed credit for changing the Battlefield Vegas advertisement to include ‘Shoot a School Kid.’ (video from INDECLINE)
Thursday’s headlines: Vandalized Las Vegas billboard has ‘Shoot a Kid’ message, Boy, 14, dies after being struck by SUV near Desert Breeze Park, Massage therapist sues Steve Wynn alleging sexual harassment (Rochelle Richards/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Bishop George Leo Thomas of Montana is announced as the new Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Las Vegas replacing retiring Bishop Joseph A. Pepe. K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal
MGM Resorts plans to raise resort fees at some properties.
The timing and size of the increase is unknown. However, executives hinted they might soon push fees up to Caesars’ level.
Caesars recently raised many resort fees to between $35-39.
Officials say the rise helps offset higher labor costs
Officers arrested a woman with a pickax near Williams Elementary School in North Las Vegas.
Neighbors said the woman was climbing the outside of a chain link fence while more than 200 students were outside.
Police said the woman was screaming that she was gonna kill everyone.
Now Kisstal Killough is charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
And the woman who fell asleep at the wheel and ran off the freeway, killing six teenagers in 2000, has made her plea for a fifth early release.
Jessica Williams has served 18 years. Commissioners will issue their decision on March 14.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Ends Sale of Assault Weapons Florida
School Shooting The retailer announced the move in an open letter and an appearance by CEO Ed Stack on ‘Good Morning America.’ Ed Stack, (Good Morning America) Ed Stack, (Good Morning America) Dick’s is also ending the sale of high-capacity magazines and sales of guns to people under 21 years old. The company ended the sale of assault weapons at Dick’s-branded stores after the Newtown, Conn. school shooting
in 2012. However, they were still selling them at its 35 Field & Stream locations. Nikolas Cruz, 17, shot and killed 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14.
Nye County officials have yanked the Love Ranch’s brothel license.
Owner Dennis Hof has vowed he would get it back within days.
Hof is accused of failing to obtain permission before modifying mobile homes at the site, but he claims he did not make any changes to the units.
Hof says it’s political retribution because he’s running against Assemblyman James Oscarson.
A Bellagio employee is accused of stealing close to $2,000 worth of lobster tails.
49-year-old Alex Hernandez faces one count of embezzlement.
He is is being held at the Clark County Detention Center on $5,000 bail.
A man is dead after an accidental shooting last night in the desert east of Las Vegas.
Three men were drinking and shooting guns in the desert, police said, when one of the men was shot. He died at the scene.
The man has not yet been identified. It is unclear if anyone will face charges.
A pedestrian has been hospitalized after being struck by a sports utility vehicle early Tuesday morning. The man suffered serious injuries from the crash, which was reported just after 5 a.m. on Craig Road near Puebla Street. The driver of the SUV remained on the scene and was cooperating with police. He did not appear to be impaired, police said.
The Metropolitan Police Department started the new year by touting a 0.9 percent drop in violent crime between 2016 and 2017.
Yet that reported dip in crime is insignificant, several criminologists told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And it charts the change between only two years, which is not considered a reliable trend.
A closer look at Metro’s homicide numbers also reveals a handful of discrepancies and a glaring — albeit admitted — omission: the 58 people killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Two people were killed Sunday in a two-car crash in the western Las Vegas Valley.
The cars collided on Rainbow Boulevard, just south of Westcliff Drive.
One of the cars jumped a curb and hit the side of Silver State Schools Credit Union.
The Las Vegas valley will get another chance at snow.
A storm system Tuesday morning will bring a 40 percent chance of showers and light snowfall particularly in the western side of the valley.
Tuesday’s high is expected to be 54 degrees.
