Metro Investigating Body Found in Home

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013, 1:44pm

LAS VEGAS -- Metro Police are investigating the discovery of a deceased person in a home in northwest Las Vegas.

According to Metro, a person arrived at the home in the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue near Cimarron Road and W. Lone Mountain Road and discovered the body. The call was made to police just before 11 a.m.

8NewsNOW.com is following this developing story and will add more information as it becomes available.

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Students Plant Tree at Northwest Park

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Monday, May 20th, 2013, 3:35pm

The City of Las Vegas and a third-grade class from Kay Carl Elementary School worked together to plant a tree at a northwest park in honor of Arbor Day.

The students and city officials gathered Monday to plant a tree at Polly Gonzalez Memorial Park, 5425 Corbett Street, at the corner of West El Campo Grande and North Bradley Road.

Besides the Raywood ash tree that was planted, the kids placed a time capsule in the spot that includes short essays from the students about what is happening environmentally in Las Vegas and around the world.

"We had a time capsule where we did research on environmental issues in Las Vegas and Nevada and we planted them so that when we open up the time capsule in 50 or 100 years, they will know exactly the environmental issues of the day," Sue Rodrigues from Carl Elementary School said.

The city has had a program in place since 1950 to plant trees at parks around southern Nevada.

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Volunteer HS Coach Facing Student Sex Charges

Submitted by Nicole Lucht on Friday, May 17th, 6:02 pm

LAS VEGAS -- A volunteer basketball coach at Shadow Ridge High School has been arrested, Clark County Schools Police Lt. Ken Young said.

According to the Clark County Detention Center, the volunteer coach, Angela Hensey, 24, was arrested Thursday on two charges of sex with a student and a charge of luring a child.

Clark County Schools Sgt. Mitch Maciszak said school police were first made aware of a possible inappropriate relationship between Hensey and two students on Jan. 30. The students were two girls, 15 and 16 years old, Maciszak said.

Maciszak said 16 years is the age of consent, but because Hensey worked in the school district, the relationship was illegal.

The person who reported Hensey became concerned when the volunteer coach drove the girls home in her car, Maciszak said.

Hensey is due in court Monday morning.

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Road Work for Next Three Months on Local Streets

Submitted by Adam Candee, 8 News NOW

Friday, May 17th, 2013, 10:59am

Road Work for Next Three Months on Local Streets

Pavement repair work will affect traffic in northwest Las Vegas for the next three months.

Starting Monday, there will be construction on Coke Street from Maggie Avenue to Racel Street, on Racel from Conough Lane to Tenaya Way, on Tenaya from Racel to Farm Road, and on Farm from Rainbow Boulevard to Decatur Boulevard.

Work hours generally will be from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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Southern Nevada Students Earn iPads in Essay Contest

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Friday, May 17th, 2013, 8:55am

Southern Nevada Students Earn iPads in Essay Contest

Twenty high school students are enjoying the new iPads they earned by reducing their carbon footprint and writing a great essay about it.

The students were part of an essay contest held by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, Coca-Cola, Mariana's Supermarkets and the Clark County School District.

The 20 winners were chosen out of the 200 entries from 40 high schools around the Las Vegas valley. They all wrote a 500-word essay describing how they used transit services provided by the RTC to reduce the amount of carbon they personally use.

The winners for the 2013 contest are:

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Driving You Crazy: Northern Beltway Construction

Submitted by 8 News NOW

Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 11:47am

LAS VEGAS - A viewer wants to know why three main roads to thousands of homes north of the 215 Beltway in the northern part of the valley are closed for construction.

The beltway, a 53-mile stretch of road that circles three-quarters of the valley, was completed in 2003. It was hard to predict how fast the valley's population would grow. County officials say the bigger beltway was needed to suit current and future traffic volumes.

Crews closed three roads near the beltway – Bradley Road, Decatur Boulevard and Jones Boulevard – at the same time to expedite construction and lessen the effect on the area. In other words, officials chose to create a shorter period of tough travel, rather than a longer, drawn-out timeline.

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Students Throw Pies into Principal's Face

Submitted by Natalie Cullen, Online Editor

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 3:10pm

Students Throw Pies into Principal's Face

Students at one southern Nevada high school threw pies into the faces of their school's administration and no one got in trouble.

The pie-into-face event was part of an effort to collect bottled water for the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.

Students at Northwest Career and Technical Academy have collected more than 40,000 bottles of water to donate to the mission. The students were rewarded Wednesday by getting a chance to smash a whipped cream pie into the face of the principal and other administration.

"It is awesome seeing the camaraderie of the city and students getting excited about doing something positive for the community. We are very excited. It is always good to see the next generation seeing what the impact they can make in this community," Shannon Mangel with the Las Vegas Rescue Mission said.

The rescue mission said the water collected by the students will be handed out immediately.

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