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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Motorists may encounter smoke and delays while crews conduct a controlled burn of brush and weeds this week in the median of the main state highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump. The Nevada Department of Transportation says a 12-mile stretch of State Route 160 southwest of Las Vegas will be affected by the Monday-to-Thursday operation.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Navy veteran who served in Iraq has been indicted on a murder charge in the beating death of a neighbor in Las Vegas. Gambino Granada-Ruiz was indicted by a Clark County grand jury in the death of 34-year-old Dearold Doolittle at an apartment complex where they lived. Granada-Ruiz is accused of repeatedly punching Doolittle in the face in March 2014 in a parking lot of the Hampton Court Apartments.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cost and confusion can be obstacles to obtaining public records in Nevada, where officials sometimes quote high fees for research, redaction and copying. Nevada Press Association chief Barry Smith says he thinks some officials use a provision letting them charge fees for time spent producing a document as a moneymaker. The Nevada Association of Cities and Municipalities denies the allegation.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Douglas County eighth-grader is heading to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., after winning the annual state competition. The Las Vegas Sun reports Daniel Taylor of Grace Christian Academy of Minden correctly spelled the word "boson" to come out on top of 34 other competitors Saturday at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas.
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