A valley woman has died after being shot by a Henderson Police Officer. It's a scene you wouldn't normally see as two ice cream truck drivers confronting police with their children present.

It started with Henderson Police pulling over a speeding ice cream truck driven by 65- year-old Zyber Selimaj. This routine traffic stop was about to be anything but routine.

“The subject became combative, did not want to sign the citation. There was a language barrier,” said Henderson Police Capt. Robert Wamsley.

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Police say he threatened officers and himself. Then he got his wife on the phone, but that didn't help.

Officers say the wife showed up in her ice cream truck, with her two children, and they say she wasn't happy.

“They tried to calm her down and bring her forward to the vehicle, at which time she returned to her vehicle and produced a knife. She had taken one of those children into her side, as if taking them captive and was holding the knife,” said Capt. Wamsley.

Police say they were able to grab the children and get them to safety, but the woman refused to cooperate.

“At that time, there were attempts to taser her and subdue her. Those attempts failed and she again came at the officers, and a shot was fired,” said Capt. Wamsley.

The woman was hit by gunfire and taken to Sunrise Trauma where she later died from her injuries. The children were taken to Child Haven and are okay, But the husband is in jail, charged with obstruction of justice and his traffic citations.

The 23-year-old officer has been placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

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Students from Meadows High School are headed to Washington, D.C. to compete against the rest of country in the National Science Bowl Regional Competition.

Over the weekend, The Meadows beat out 31 other teams from Arizona, California, Utah, and here in Nevada.

The annual competition is hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.

Other local teams that fared well — Palo Verde High School placed second and in third place was Coronado High School.

The Meadows will compete against other regional winners from around the country later this year.

Governor Gibbons came to Las Vegas Monday to talk education. Little has changed with his proposed plan to cut some $500 million from the state budget, but people at one local school are trying to change his mind.

It isn't easy to personalize budget cuts, but one elementary school namesake hopes $500 million in cuts can melt under milk money smiles from students.

The pleas are the same in every corner of the state, but according to Steve Schorr, the Cox Communications executive, schools in Nevada need more than lip service — they need emotional face time with the man who can make a difference.

“We'll be back on track when we get this economy recovered,” said Governor Jim Gibbons.

Governor Gibbons toured the school named after Schorr Monday and did something more. “I wanted to come and keep my promise to him,” said the governor.

Gibbons promised Schorr he would visit the school, but Schorr hopes the other promise — of education first — becomes reality.

“It's not just the reality of the dollars and cents. It's holding to a promise, and once that money comes back, do what you said you were going to do,” said Schorr.

“Maybe some of the new ideas, new programs that were proposed in the legislative session won't be realized this term,” said Gibbons.

Ken Wronski is the principal of Schorr Elementary. “I think full day kindergarten lets them go in deep into the curriculum.”

Is not so simple to cut. Schorr agrees — and hopes the visit, however brief, makes a difference for all the students.

“But when you see it first hand, and you see the eyes of a child, and you see the difference between half day and full day kindergarten — tough to deny,” said Schorr.

Governor Gibbons believes the cuts will stay the same but December sales tax figures are not in yet. Those holiday shopping numbers are expected to come in by the end of the month, and they could effect the amount of money that governor wants to cut.

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