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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police have cited rapper Flavor Flav over his annual Fourth of July fireworks show outside his Las Vegas home. The reality TV star has been accused of setting off thousands of dollars' worth of illegal fireworks at his holiday party since 2009. Police Lt. Ken Romaine tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that officers confiscated over 100 pounds of the remaining fireworks and issued him two citations.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — NV Energy officials have identified the cause of a power outage that affected 1,350 customers yesterday morning around the Sparks industrial area: a bird. Company spokeswoman Faye Andersen said yesterday evening a bird got into equipment at a substation and triggered the outage. The outage began around 8:15 a.m. and lasted until 9:35 a.m.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — At least at the polls in Nevada, state election officials say it's the Democratic, not the Democrat, Party. Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat, directed county clerks and voter registrars last week to get rid of any ballots or other materials that reference the "Democrat Party" and to instead use its official name, the Nevada Democratic Party.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Billy Ray Cyrus has honored a Nevada teacher killed by a student in a school-yard shooting. The country singer praised Michael Landsberry and presented a memorial plaque to his widow, Sharon, during a concert Saturday in Incline Village. The 45-year-old ex-Marine tried to talk the shooter into turning over the handgun before he was shot in the chest Oct. 21 at a middle school in Sparks.
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