President Obama leaves Las Vegas

Sunday, November 23rd, 2014, 1:30pm

LAS VEGAS -- After spending the weekend in Las Vegas, President Barack Obama left Nevada Sunday to return to Washington D.C.

Air Force One departed from McCarran International Airport around 10:45 a.m. Over the weekend, Obama stayed in Henderson and spent some time golfing at Reflection Bay Golf Club.

The president arrived in Las Vegas on Friday for and visited a Las Vegas High School to sign an executive order on immigration.

With him aboard Air Force One was a delegation of congressional Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada U.S. Reps. Dina Titus and Steven Horsford.

The president says his executive order will protect as many as 5 million immigrants who are illegally in the United States from deportation.

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Friday, November 21st, 2014, 6:22pm

LAS VEGAS -- Police said the father of an 8-month-old baby kneeled on the child out of frustration, according to an arrest report.

Corneilio Rodriguez-Gonzalez told detectives that he fed the baby, whose been identified by the Clark County Coroner's office as Raymond Rodriguez-Gonzalez, but the child remained fussy, so he got frustrated.

In his frustration, Rodriguez-Gonzalez put all of his weight on the 8-month-old by kneeling on him in a “forceful manner,” according to police. Rodriguez-Gonzalez weighs 225 lbs. and is six feet tall.

Investigators said the 23-year-old also told them he picked the baby up and held him until he went to sleep and put him in his crib. However, when he went to check on baby Raymond a little later, he wasn't breathing.

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Thursday, November 20th, 2014, 11:49am

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Naismith Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian is hospitalized in Las Vegas, where his son says he's being treated for pneumonia.

Danny Tarkanian said Thusday the 84-year-old former Runnin' Rebels coach was stabilized and undergoing medical tests after being taken by ambulance Wednesday to Valley Hospital Medical Center.

Danny Tarkanian says his father has a heart condition and is susceptible to chest and lung illness.

The coach dubbed "Tark the Shark" was hospitalized for 10 days in April after a heart attack, his second. He had just returned home from a trip to the NCAA Final Four in North Texas.

Tarkanian led three schools to the NCAA tournament, including the 1990 UNLV team that won a national title.

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Thursday, November 20th, 2014, 11:27am

LAS VEGAS -- Police are looking for a man who they say kicked in a door to a home and shot and killed a person inside on Nov. 9.

The suspect is Virgil Woods, 45, police said. He is wanted in the deadly shooting that occurred around 5 a.m. at a home in the 4600 block of Amberleigh Lane near Vegas Valley Drive and Lamb Boulevard.

Police believe Woods is still in the Las Vegas area and have released a booking photo of him from 2011.

Anyone with information is asked to call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Section at (702)828-3521 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at (702)385-5555 or on online at www.crimestoppersofnv.com.

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Wednesday, November 19th, 2014, 2:39pm

LAS VEGAS -- A Clark County grand jury indicted Randel Torres Sr. on murder charges related to the beating death of girlfriend Deborah Schuler, who died from her injuries in March at age 66.

Torres allegedly used his fists to beat Schuler by striking her head and causing bruises all over body during a Feb. 17 incident at an apartment complex near Nellis and Lake Mead boulevards. But authorities weren't alerted about her injuries until four days later.

Torres is being held without bail in the Clark County Detention Center and is due in court Dec. 2.

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Sunday, November 16th, 2014, 8:57pm

LAS VEGAS-- Saturday into Sunday proved to be a deadly night on the roads around the valley. Metro Police said they investigated four different crashes that killed four people.

Those incidents made the total amount of fatal crashes in Metro's jurisdiction this year reach 75.

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Sunday, November 16th, 2014, 2:58pm

LAS VEGAS -- The Clark County Coroner's Office said Sunday Devon Spease was the motorcyclist killed in a crash at a popular intersection.

Nevada High Patrol investigated the deadly incident when it occurred Saturday morning at the intersection of U.S. Highway 95 and Martin Luther King Boulevard. NHP said a motorcyclist was driving northbound on MLK Blvd. when it crashed with a Honda sedan exiting the US 95 off ramp.

The motorcyclist was taken to University Medical Center where he died, according to troopers. Clark County Coroners did not release the cause of death.

NHP said drugs and alcohol didn't seem to play a factor in the crash.

The crash closed the northbound lanes of MLK south of the intersection for hours.

No other details about the crash were released.

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