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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada voters may be going to the polls in record low numbers. The Secretary of State reports that as of 3:30 p.m., almost 430,000 ballots had been cast in today's election. That includes early voters statewide. The total so far is a little more than 35 percent of active registered voters in the state.
EUREKA, Nev. (AP) — Eureka County Sheriff Kenneth Jones is recovering from serious injuries suffered in an accident while responding to a bus crash. The sheriff's office says Jones' vehicle slid off the Newmont Mine Highway on Saturday afternoon as he responded to the bus crash about 15 miles north of Carlin. The Elko Daily Free Press reports he's expected to make a full recovery.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Former Washoe County School District Superintendent Health Morrison has resigned from his superintendent's job in North Carolina. Morrison served in Reno from 2009-2012 before taking over as head of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District. The district said in a statement Monday he was resigning to tend to his ill mother.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas motorcyclist wants the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper violated his civil rights in what he says was an intentional crash last month on the 215 Beltway. The attorney for 39-year-old Allah Shah Lindsey says his client may have been struck because he is black. The highway patrol declined to comment.
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