News briefs for January 15, 2002

Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 | 9:59 a.m.

Pedestrian shot dead in NLV

A North Las Vegas man was shot and killed Monday afternoon in what police say was a drive-by shooting.

Michael A. Glover, 36, was walking on the sidewalk in the 300 block of East Tonopah Avenue when a white car pulled alongside the man and a passenger inside began firing, Lt. Art Redcay, a North Las Vegas Police spokesman, said.

Witnesses told police that three to five shots were fired at Glover, who suffered at least one wound in the chest and died on the sidewalk.

The suspects fled the area before police arrived. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police at 633-9111 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Water at LV school cleared

Water at a northwest Las Vegas school is OK to drink after Clark County School District officials expressed concern the water could be contaminated.

The more than 900 students at Kay Carl Elementary School have not been allowed to drink from school fountains since mid-December. Tests by the Clark County Health District have since found that the water meets health standards, a school district spokeswoman said.

While the tests were being completed water dispensers were set up at the school at 5625 Corbett St. north of Ann Road between Jones and Decatur boulevards.

LV to receive fed funding

Las Vegas will benefit from a $250 million annual grant package Congress approved last year to clean up former urban industrial sites contaminated with chemicals.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who sponsored the legislation, and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman were to announce the funding today at Third Street and Bonneville Avenue, where a future parking garage may one day be built on a site contaminated with a dry cleaning chemical.

The chemical tetrachloroethene (PCE) was detected at levels just above the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection's level, where cleanup action is necessary. The cleanup grants could help the city remedy the site.

Las Vegas has more than 30 lightly contaminated sites. The city initiated its cleanup program for the brownfields, contaminated areas ready for restoration, in October 1999.

Since then nine local sites have been investigated and work is under way at a former National Guard Armory at 250 N. Eastern Ave. The federal Environmental Protection Agency set up a $500,000 revolving loan fund to pay for the property's restoration. The site had been contaminated with diesel fuel.

City plans call for a cultural center and possibly a senior center and retail stores at the site.