County to honor emergency crews in Strip crash that killed 1

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Emergency responders who aided dozens of people hurt on the Strip when a woman in a car plowed through the crowd last month will be recognized by the county.

The Clark County Commission on Tuesday will honor the Clark County firefighters, Las Vegas police officers and University Medical Center trauma center doctors and nurses who attended to a tourist who died and 36 others who were injured, some critically in December.

County Commissioner Steve Sisolak is expected to recognize and commend the life-saving efforts at the board meeting that starts at 9 a.m.

The crashed happened Dec. 20 on Las Vegas Boulevard in front of the Paris and Planet Hollywood casino-hotels.

The driver accused in the crash, 24-year-old Lakeisha Nicole Holloway, faces murder, child endangerment and felony hit-and-run charges.