Friday, Dec. 14, 2001 | 9:49 a.m.
Two women were killed Thursday when the driver of a pickup apparently failed to yield at an intersection and collided with another vehicle, Metro Police say.
Jerlene Murray, 62, and Dorothy Lindsey, 64, suffered fatal injuries in the 10 a.m. accident near Lake Mead Boulevard and Revere Street. The latest deaths bring the total of fatal accidents to 97 this year.
A Chevrolet pickup was headed west on Hassell Avenue, while an Oldsmobile driven by Murray was traveling south on La Salle when the two vehicles collided, police said.
Morty Young, 23, the driver of the pickup suffered minor injuries, and the accident remains under investigation, police said.
Ballot question will test public
The Clark County Health District voted unanimously Thursday to place a question on the November ballot asking voters whether they would like to see more strict tobacco regulations in restaurants, schools and public places.
The state Legislature is the only body that can implement tougher smoking laws locally. Clark County's efforts to wrest control of smoking laws from the state have failed in the past.
Health District officials said last month that they believe they might be more successful with state legislators next session if they possess ballot question results that show residents favor tougher laws.
NLV council plans meeting
North Las Vegas City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss a proposal to build a police station on land currently set aside for a library.
The 4 1/2-acre parcel on Alexander Road just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard is owned by the city's library district. In exchange for the land, the library would receive a site in a proposed master-planned community on 1,900 acres at the northern end of the city.
City officials say they believe it will be easier to raise money from businesses for a library farther north. Lack of funds has delayed the $10-million project for years.
Police officials say the library land would be perfect for the city's second police station because it is centrally located and about 42 percent of all police calls emanate from the newer part of town.
Some residents living near the site say they opposed the land swap because it would move the library farther from them.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the Silver Mesa Recreation Center, 4025 Allen Lane.
Subcritical blast called successful
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory successfully conducted a subcritical experiment 1 p.m. Thursday at the Nevada Test Site.
Data from monitoring instruments confirmed that the experiment was subcritical, meaning that no self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred.
The test, called Oboe 7, was the eighth and final subcritical experiment in the Lawrence Livermore series. The experiments were designed to answer questions in regard to what happens to plutonium in a shockwave after a high explosive blast.
The subcritical experiments allow scientists to gain information on nuclear weapons stockpiled in the United States without underground nuclear testing. Former President Bush halted underground experiments at the Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, in September 1992.
Appeals court rules in suit
A federal appeals court has ruled states do not enjoy immunity from lawsuits in cases in which private individuals have complaints about the Family and Medical Leave Act.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week reinstated a suit by William Hibbs, who was fired from the Nevada State Welfare Division in 1997 over a dispute about the division's leave policy.
U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben in Reno had ruled in favor of the state.
The case now returns to the federal court in Reno for more hearings.
Man arrested in robbery attempt
A 30-year-old man was arrested Thursday, accused of beating a tavern bartender nearly to death earlier in the day.
Samuel Isaac Marquez was booked into the Clark County jail on an attempted murder and robbery charges.
Officers were called to the Lake Mead Tavern in the 5800 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard near Sloan Lane about 2:30 a.m. Thursday. Officers found the bartender on the floor bleeding from the head, Metro Police said.
Marquez is accused of using a baseball bat, or some other similar item, to beat the bartender and then rob him and the tavern, police said.
The bartender was taken to University Medical Center, where he is listed in critical condition.
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