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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The powerful union representing about 57,000 Las Vegas casino workers has shifted its strategy by not endorsing a candidate in the Democratic primary and focusing on the general election instead. The Culinary Union announced in January that it wouldn't unleash its influence on behalf of any one candidate before Nevada's late-February caucuses. The group backed Barack Obama in his heated race with Clinton in 2008. Obama won Nevada's delegate count that year but Clinton won the popular vote.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have identified a man who was killed after his car crashed into a power pole. KSNV-TV in Las Vegas reports that 20-year-old Kristho Garcia, of North Las Vegas, died Friday of injuries suffered in the single-vehicle crash. According to the Clark County coroner's office, Garcia suffered multiple blunt force injuries in the incident. Police say Garcia tried to turn at the intersection of Owens Avenue and Pecos Road but drove straight onto a raised island.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Ridesharing company Lyft has locked in a deal to operate at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. The Reno-Gazette Journal reports that Lyft obtained an agreement Friday to expand operations and will get to join Uber in doing pickups at the airport. Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority president and CEO Marily Mora says the new service expands options for travelers riding downtown, to casinos and shopping malls and to ski lifts.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Reno police are searching for a vehicle involved in a deadly hit-and-run. Police say the incident happened yesterday around 5:50 a.m. near Fourth Street and Spokane. According to investigators, a 55-year-old man was legally crossing Fourth Street when a pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed with its headlights off struck him. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Meanwhile, the vehicle fled.
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