Local briefs for August 10, 1999

Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999 | 11:08 a.m.

Gunman hits LV supermarket slots

Metro Police are investigating a series of robberies in the gaming areas of valley supermarkets.

All of the robberies have been committed by a lone individual who has mostly targeted grocery stores in the southeast part of town, police said.

The suspect enters the store and approaches the change person in the slot areas and then brandishes a handgun, police said.

The man is described as white, between 25 and 28 years old, about 5-feet-10-inches tall and around 160 pounds. A gray sedan, possibly a Saturn, has been seen leaving the area shortly after the robberies, police said.

Police believe that seven stores have been robbed by the man and ask that anyone with information on these crimes call the robbery detail at 229-3591 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Munitions experiment second of three

Lafitte, the second of three planned military munitions tests, will be detonated at the Nevada Test Site on Wednesday.

The test will involve 24 artillery shells. It will be conducted in X-Tunnel, a 19-foot-wide chamber extending 600 feet into Little Skull Mountain, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The test chamber will be sealed after the 155mm shells are in place. The test is similar to Blackbeard, an experiment done on July 28 to help the military understand emissions from exploding munitions in a confined space.

A third test, Jolly Roger, is expected to be detonated this month.

Group links jobs, cleaner air

Cleaner, more energy-efficient technologies could add more than 5,800 jobs to Nevada's economy by 2010, two environmental groups said today.

The Tellus Institute and the World Wildlife Fund released a study that predicts job growth and consumer savings from policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The reductions are called for in the 1997 Kyoto International Agreement on Climate Change.

While manufacturing states such as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois would gain the most, states such as Nevada would gain from energy savings, the study said.

Net jobs in the United States would jump from 461,200 in 2005 to 870,532 in 2010, the group said.

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