Las Vegas news briefs

Henderson has joined Clark County and Boulder City in the battle to keep nuclear waste from being trucked through its neighborhoods.

The City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Department of Energy to select carriers of low-level nuclear waste to the Nevada Test Site who say they will avoid Interstate 15, U.S. 95, Lake Mead Drive or Blue Diamond Highway.

Clark County and Boulder City have approved similar resolutions opposing three proposed low-level nuclear waste routes through densely populated areas.

Shipments of low-level nuclear waste for disposal at the Test Site from a DOE nuclear weapons production facility in Ohio were halted 16 months ago because of leaky trucks.

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LV man's slaying

Metro Police arrested a 51-year-old man early this morning at a downtown Seventh Street motel in connection with the death of another man found shot in the face Monday night.

Mack Mason is being held in the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of murder with a weapon, Metro Homicide Lt. Wayne Petersen said.

Petersen said Mason is charged in the shooting death Monday of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man -- police believe over a woman.

The man, whose identity was withheld until family members can be notified, was found shot in the face at an apartment in the 900 block of D Street. He died at University Medical Center.

"Mason had threatened him earlier in the day," Petersen said. "Apparently, he made good on the threat."

Nearly 200 arrested in demonstration

Anti-nuclear demonstrators protested 500 strong at the Nevada Test Site entrance Sunday and 198 were cited for trespassing, U.S. Department of Energy spokesman Derek Scammell said.

The DOE is conducting a series of subcritical experiments to see how plutonium and other radioactive materials perform in high-explosive blasts. The explosions do not create a nuclear chain reaction, Scammell said. The DOE stopped nuclear weapons testing in 1992.

The group Healing Global Wounds of Tecopa, Calif., sponsored the Mother's Day protest at the Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The demonstration continued Monday with 100 activists but no arrests, Scammell said.

Grandmother, child back homeA

66-year-old grandmother believed suffering from Alzheimer's disease drove her 5-year-old granddaughter to a Las Vegas convenience store Tuesday night and turned up three hours later 150 miles away in Hurricane, Utah.

"She became disoriented and lost. She thought she was still driving around Las Vegas," Metro Police Detective Mark Reddon said.

Reddon said the grandmother stopped to ask directions at a residence and her granddaughter used the phone to call 911.

"The family drove up to Utah and picked them up. Both are back home," Reddon said.

The grandmother and granddaughter left their residence to go to a convenience store at Gowan and Pecos roads.

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