News briefs for Oct. 23, 2003

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003 | 11:24 a.m.

Another October record broken

Las Vegas set another record high Wednesday, with the high temperature hitting 92 degrees at McCarran International Airport, breaking the old mark of 90 set for the date in 1988.

National Weather Service forecaster Charlie Schlott said a gradual cooling trend is expected over the weekend.

The average high for this time of the year is 74 degrees; the average low is 48.

It was 93 in North Las Vegas on Wednesday, tying a record set in 1959. Laughlin hit 102 degrees, breaking the old mark of 97 set in 1995.

Grant to help fight DUIs

A federal grant of $245,583 is coming to Nevada to help fight drunken driving, and more than 65 percent of it will be distributed in Clark County.

Chuck Abbott, chief of the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, said Wednesday that 45 percent of all 2002 traffic fatalities in Nevada involved alcohol, up from 42 percent in 2001.

The money will be used for a program in Clark County to require a driver convicted of a DUI to install a breath ignition interlock device, and other programs.

It will also go toward overtime for police to set up DUI roadblocks and to publicize that the legal limit for driving under the influence in Nevada is now 0.08 instead of 0.10.

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