President's father to campaign in LV
Former President George Bush will make his second fund-raising trip to Nevada to help Republican congressional candidate Jon Porter on Oct. 15.
The event will take place at the MGM Grand Conference Center.
Gov. Kenny Guinn, Sen. John Ensign and Rep. Jim Gibbons, all Republicans, will be on hand for the event.
Bush came to Nevada earlier this year to raise money for both Porter and Lynette Boggs McDonald, a Republican running in Nevada's 1st Congressional District.
Current President Bush has not stopped in Nevada during fund-raising trips for Republican candidates in the West, including events for California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon.
County considers defibrillators
Clark County officials are exploring the cost of installing portable defibrillators at parks and recreation centers so the public can quickly treat someone who has suffered from sudden cardiac arrest.
Backed by heart specialists and representatives of the American Heart Association, Commissioners Erin Kenny and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey pitched the idea to fellow commissioners Tuesday.
Victims of sudden cardiac arrest have a 90 percent chance of living if they are delivered defibrillation within a minute of collapsing, according to a county report.
Experts told the board the machines are computerized and instruct users how to administer the treatment and whether it is needed. Commissioners also suggested the county urge owners of private recreation facilities to consider buying the defibrillators.
Bound body found in motel
Employees of the Uptown Motel at 813 E. Ogden Ave. found a 58-year-old man dead in a guest room bathtub Friday. Metro Police said the victim was found bound and submerged in water. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of his family.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Metro Police Homicide Section at 229-3521 or Secret Witness at 385-5555. A reward of up to $1,000 is offered.
Woman killed as she lay in street
A 55-year-old Las Vegas woman was hit by a vehicle and killed about 3:30 a.m. today when she laid down on Charleston Boulevard, Metro Police said.
Terri Ann Velasco and her daughter were walking along Charleston Boulevard, just east of 30th Street, when Velasco laid down in the street, police said. Velasco and her daughter had been arguing, Detective Bill Johnson said, and Velasco may have been intoxicated.
A dark colored, four-door SUV drove over Velasco, killing her. The SUV didn't stop. Anyone with information is asked to call Secret Witness at 385-5555.
Body of missing man is found
Children walking by bushes on Russell Road Tuesday afternoon discovered the body of Leslie Arnold, who had been missing from his senior care home for two weeks.
Arnold, 68, had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and suffered from dementia. He needed medication.
Metro Police homicide detectives responded to the site almost across the street from the Village Oaks Senior Home, 3025 E. Russell Road, after students walking home from school saw a leg with pants sticking out from the shrubs.
Staff at the home had reported seeing Arnold leaving the property about 8 a.m. on Sept. 16.
The cause of death has not been determined. The Clark County coroner's office will conduct an autopsy.
Hotel firm sued over molestation
The parents of three young boys have filed a lawsuit against Mandalay Resort Group alleging a custodian at the Luxor sexually molested two of them and assaulted a third.
According to a lawsuit filed Monday in District Court, one of the boys ran out of a restroom at the hotel Oct. 6, 2000, to tell his mother that a man had attempted to molest him and was in the process of molesting his two brothers.
The mother got help, and the custodian, Mehmed Husic, was apprehended.
Court records indicate Husic was convicted of the crime of lewdness with children under 14 in April 2001 and was placed on three years' probation.
The children's parents are suing on the grounds of assault and battery, negligent hiring and supervision and emotional distress.
The state will receive a $1.5 million
federal grant over the next three years to establish a statewide system to track diseases. Gov. Kenny Guinn said Tuesday the money comes from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is critical to the state's effort to track and better understand a cluster of childhood leukemia cases around Fallon.
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