LOOKING IN ON: THE SUBURBS

By Mike Trask (contact)

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 | 7:21 a.m.

Move over, Las Vegas, and get ready to share the red carpet.

Its bigger neighbor may be featured in TV's "Las Vegas" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," but North Las Vegas also grabbed some small-screen face time last week.

On an episode of "America's Most Wanted."

North Las Vegas police are looking for leads in a June 25 shooting at the Silver Nugget on Las Vegas Boulevard North.

The Fox show aired Silver Nugget surveillance footage showing punches being thrown outside the casino's billiards room just before a man pulled out a gun and started shooting. He killed one person, 20-year-old Allen Tyrone Smith, and shot a woman in the hand. In the video, the woman, Katherine McDowell, 39, is seen in a wheelchair, rolling away from the chaos.

After the footage aired across the country, police identified another woman, Lakeva Campbell, 26, who they believe can help them find the shooter. And they hope the show will produce more witnesses.

Perhaps fittingly, the North Las Vegas Planning Commission discussed state plans last week to expand the Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center.

The proposal calls for a 100-bed transitional center, medical building and 300-bed housing unit. It would expand the current nine-year-old prison, which has a capacity of 496 inmates, on Smiley Road, south of Interstate 15 and east of Lamb Boulevard.

After sending out what appeared at first glance to be blank postcards a few weeks ago - but which in fact had difficult-to-see embossed white lettering on white cards - North Las Vegas has sent another mailing to residents advertising the mayor's upcoming State of the City address.

This time the city made sure to get recipients' attention, using 3-D cards with the city logo floating over a bed of clouds. The cards symbolize the event's theme. The mayor's address will focus on the multiple dimensions of the community.

The State of the City address will be Jan. 11 at Texas Station .

Henderson also has scheduled its annual State of the City address. Mayor Jim Gibson will give his talk on Valentine's Day at Green Valley Ranch Station.

On Tuesday, the Henderson City Council will discuss annexing about 91 acres northwest of Boulder Highway and Warm Springs Road, a plan intended to allow the city to control development at the vacant site.

Although it's a sizable tract of land, the site is dwarfed by several of the city's giant land-acquisition projects this year. Last month, the city took control of five square miles (3,200 acres) near Las Vegas Boulevard South and St. Rose Parkway. And earlier in the year, the city annexed 1,362 acres near the Basic Management Inc. site, near Boulder Highway and Lake Mead Parkway.

Henderson will receive the Excellence in Youth Sports Award from the National Alliance for Youth Sports during its meeting Tuesday. Only five parks departments or organizations across the country earn the title each year.

Recognition for its parks and sports facilities is nothing new for the state's second-biggest city. In 2004, Sports Illustrated named Henderson Nevada's "Sportstown."