Four vehicles were involved in a crash on Rancho southbound between Ricky Road and Michael Way.

A pregnant woman and several others are in the hospital. Police say the pregnant woman was speeding in her pick-up, jumped the median, and hit an oncoming truck. In the process, an SUV slammed into a convenience store's wall.

Two people waiting at a bus stop were also hit by debris. Everyone was taken to the hospital, but police say all will survive – including the unborn baby.

The investigation is ongoing, but police say charges could be filed.

An unborn baby is dead and two teens are still in the hospital following an accident at a bus stop in North Las Vegas on Wednesday.

According to police, an elderly driver veered off west Lake Mead Blvd., just west of Simmons Street and struck an 18-year-old male and a 19-year-old female who were waiting at a Citizen Area bus stop.

The 19-year-old was eight months pregnant and according to North Las Vegas police, the woman's unborn child was killed in the accident.

The driver, a 79-year-old, North Las Vegas resident was also transported to the hospital with injuries. Police say it appears that driver suffers from a medical condition that may have contributed to the accident.

One man described it as gruesome. And Thursday, all three people involved in the accident remain in the hospital. But one witness credits the adults abilities to survive, to the community rushing to their aid.

At Phat Cutz on west Lake Mead Boulevard, barbers Al Galtney and Marty Coleman have a clear line of sight to the bus stop near Simmons. They heard the afternoon accident and ran outside.

“You wouldn't imagine a truck just coming along and just running into people at the bus stop,” said Coleman.

But that's what happened. A 79-year-old man ran off of the road and hit the pole that marks the bus stop. Now, accident scene markers are at the stop. A pregnant woman and a young man waiting for the bus were hit.

Coleman immediately rushed to the young woman's side. “I just held her hand and tried to comfort her, said she would be all right and told her help was coming,” he said.

While Coleman and others tried to comfort the young woman who lay injured near the bus stop, other people tried to help the young man. He had been knocked into the air and lay bleeding, 30 yards from where he had been standing.

Coleman says the driver was trapped in the car. The engine had been pushed into the cab of the truck.

Police say the driver sustained injuries to his lower body. The pregnant woman lost her baby and witnesses say the young man may be paralyzed from the waist down.

“Hopefully they can just heal from it now. You know it's hard, but it's just an accident,” said Coleman.

The two men in the barber shop said about 15 to 20 people tried to help the three until the ambulances arrived.

The crash is still an open investigation, but right now North Las Vegas police tell us they believe the driver of the truck was suffering from a medical condition. If he had clearance to drive, police won't charge him with any crime.

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NASCAR is roaring into Las Vegas with lots of activites and a big race weekend expected to draw thousands of fans.

There are two races, the first on Saturday, the Sam's Town 300, which is a Busch Series race and the UAW-Dodge 400 on Sunday. 

The excitement begins on Thursday at 2:30 p.m., when the NASCAR team haulers will parade north on the Las Vegas Strip from Russell Road to Sahara Avenue as they make their way to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The parade will be visable from both sides of the Strip.

There will be numerous events over the weekend. On Friday, the gates at the speedway open at 9 a.m. and the NNS practice begins at 10:30 a.m. The NSCS qualifying will start at 3:40 p.m.

On Saturday, the gates open at 8 a.m. and the NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam's Town 300 starts at 1:30 p.m.

The gates open at 7 a.m. on Sunday and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series UAW-Dodge 400 gets underway at 1:30 p.m.

Kurt Busch, Tony Stewart, Kasey Kahne, Jason Keller, Robby Gordon, Clint Bowyer and Landon Cassill are just some of the drivers that will be making appearances starting on Thursday.

The Neon Garage will also offer opportunities for fans to see drivers close up and the race teams. There are also live performances with celebrity imperonators. 

The Southern Nevada Health District is holding Saturday immunization clinics to help parents beat the rush to meet new vaccination requirements for 7th graders next school year.

Starting this fall, 7th graders will need to be immunized against Bordetella pertussis. Here is a schedule for the Saturday clinics.

• March 15, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., East Las Vegas Public Health Center, 560 N. Nellis Blvd., Suite E12, Las Vegas
• March 29, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., North Las Vegas Public Health Center, 1820 E. Lake Mead Blvd., Suite F, North Las Vegas
• April 12, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Henderson Public Health Clinic, 520 E. Lake Mead Pkwy., Henderson
• April 26, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Ravenholt Public Health Center, 625 Shadow Lane, Las Vegas. This will be part of a health fair event.

Parents must bring shot records. There is a $16 administrative fee per patient for one immunization and a $20 fee per patient with two or more immunizations.

Also, college freshman younger than 24 years old and who plan to reside on campus must also now get an immunization against Neisseria meningitis.

Ronald Jayne Jr. has accepted a plea deal for his involvement in Nevada's worst drunk driving accident which killed five people in May of 2007.

Jayne Jr., who was 19 years old when the crashed happened, appeared in court Monday morning and changed his plea to guilty. He is facing 8 felony counts of driving under the influence and causing death or substantial bodily harm. Each count carries a sentence of 20 years maximum. The district attorney's office has agreed to seek a prison sentence of 24 to 60 years. 

Metro police detectives say Jayne Jr. had a blood alcohol level was at .19 on the night of the crash in which he ran a red light hitting a van full of children. The crash happened at Tenaya and Farm Road.

The five victims killed were family members. Katherine Luna was just 7 months old. Itzelic Sevilla was 2 years old. Fernando Dominguez, 9, was killed with his mother that night. Gustavo Dominguez Sevilla who was 13 years old.  And 32-year-old Claudia Dominguez was the driver that night. 

Family members of the victims say they hope he serves the maximum time.

“He takes five lives, and he lived. We live with so much pain. I don't think to get out of jail in 20 to 25 years is right,” said Rita Dominguez, family member of the victims.

Sentencing is scheduled for May 2 where they will read those statements in court. The D.A. said they expect a lot of family members to speak that day.

The world famous Las Vegas Strip will see something it never has next week. On Thursday, February 28, nearly 50 NASCAR haulers will transport the cars that will race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway next weekend in a parade down the Strip.

Starting at 2:30 p.m., the haulers will be staged just south of Mandalay Bay. From there, they will drive up the northbound lanes of Las Vegas Boulevard, five miles up to Sahara.

They will then continue to make their way to the speedway. Metro Police will be there to help along the way.

They will not shut down the Boulevard all at once, but one intersection at a time as the parade heads north.

The parade of NASCAR haulers is an experience the speedway believes everyone can enjoy.

“You'll hear some of those fans booing and certain other ones say, for instance, Dale Junior's hauler comes by and the 88 National Guard Team, you'll hear a lot of excitement,” said Chris Powell, the GM of LVMS.

Metro also wants to say that northbound traffic along Las Vegas Boulevard will not be shut down. The haulers will only be traveling in the middle lane on the northbound side.

NASCAR weekend wraps up with the big UAW-Dodge 400 race on Sunday, March 2nd.

North Las Vegas police are investigating a deadly shooting that might be connected to road rage.

Officers say a 30-year-old man was found with several gunshot wounds at the Buena Vista Springs Apartments near Martin Luther King and Cartier.

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Police say they were called to the area and found the victim in a damaged car. The man was transported to UMC where he died from his injuries.

Other cars in the area were also damaged.

Homeowners are taking on a shooting range, opening just a short distance from their master planned community.

The large group showed up in force Wednesday night to demand answers about why they weren't told about the range before they bought their homes.

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A standing room only crowd of homeowners converged on the North Las Vegas library meeting room. At issue, the world's larges shooting park — already under construction in the quiet community.

“We're not anti-guns, nor against the concept of a park. There are several homeowners that are members of the NRA and retired and active law enforcement,” said one homeowner.

The meeting is being held to address the 2900 acre shooting park going up within shouting distance of their houses. The planned RV park for shooting range customers will be discussed at another time.

“Why was it mandated by you, our official, our trusted person, the one that we supported and we say, “go get them.” So we say, “Help us. Do what we elected you to do,”" said one resident.

Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross represents this ward and also sits on the shooting park advisory board.

“I see the big picture here and what's good for the community. Are you going to suffer? Apparently you think so but in my mind do I think so?” he said.

But some of the residents wondered what life would be like with the new shooting range, “You think the terrorists in Iraq are crazy? Wait till you get a bunch of drunken hunters going out there.”

Meanwhile the gun park remains under construction for now, with building to be completed in three phases.

Residents in the far northern reaches of the valley are up in arms over a county-run shooting range that is under construction near their homes. The residents say they were not told about the project before they purchased their homes, and now they want county officials to scale back the project or stop it all together.

Clark County Shooting Park

There will be a neighborhood meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 13 to discuss the shooting range. The meeting is not open to the general public, only neighbors affected.

The county-run shooting park will cover 2,900 acres on in the northern reaches of the valley, where Jones and Decatur dead-end into the mountains.

It will feature rifle, pistol and archery ranges — even a site for RV camping.

But resident Theresa Nowlan says residents here only learned of the project when construction began last month.

“I am not happy. This is not something that anybody in our community — and I have spoken to many other communities along the periphery of this park and no one had any information that this park was going in,” she said.

Lorraine Lennard also lives in Carmel Canyon and says she feels let down by her elected officials.

“If they were going to approve housing, there should have been disclosures, mandatory disclosures, from the builder and from the county that we should have had to sign before building permits were even issued,” she said.

Now Lennard is joining with other residents calling on the county to stop, or scale back the project.

“All the planning was done prior to the developments being built here. These houses were not here, ok. We were taken completely by surprise,” she said.

Don Turner is the county's point man on the shooting range and says there was nothing at all secretive about the planning process.

“From 2002, we have met with the public every month. It has been noticed in the newspaper. We have been in front of the Board of County Commissioners at least 8 times. Except for actually when somebody drives down the road to a new house, stopping the car and saying, “Wait, there's going to be a range here.” I don't know what to tell them,” he said.

Turner also says noise concerns of future residents were, in fact, addressed years ago when the shooting park was moved a mile away from any future development.

“So moving the range a mile north added millions of dollars to our project because of the extra utilities, the extra lighting, the extra power, the extra roadways, the extra water. So we put substantial money into noise mitigation, or what they call noise attenuation, already upfront in our design knowing that homes were going to be in that area and knowing that we did not want to detract from their quality of life,” he said.

But, Turner says once the park opens next year adjustments to hours and operations can be made.

“We pledge to the neighbors that we will be good neighbors,” said Turner.

The county also says the initial idea for this project came from community members, not from the county itself. Since all procedures have been followed — the county says it has no plans to stop or modify the project.

A public meeting on the project is scheduled for next Wednesday, February 13th.

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A family's long search for answers may have finally ended. The burned remains of a body found in Texas may be a North Las Vegas woman who has been missing for almost two years.

It's a sad case, but the family of 21-year-old Jessie Foster may finally get some closure. The ordeal started when for some reason the straight-a student turned to prostitution. Lured by the lights and fast life of Las Vegas, she fell into the wrong crowd, became a high-priced escort and may have eventually fallen victim to a human trafficking ring.

The beautiful blue-eyed blonde disappeared in March of 2006, just months after moving from her family's home in Canada to North Las Vegas to be with her wealthy boyfriend, Peter Todd, the man police say was the last person to see her.

Retired New York policeman Frank Mahoney heads up the non-profit Nevada Center for Missing Loved Ones — which assists local investigators in missing persons cases. He says the Nevada Attorney General's Office forwarded him the Foster case after it received information suggesting Foster fell victim to a human trafficking ring.

About the same time, the burned body of a woman surfaced in Kilgore, Texas. Using the skeletal remains, forensic artists reconstructed the face of the unidentified woman and aired it's likeness on America's Most Wanted just last month — an episode Mahoney just happened to be watching at home.

“It blew my mind, just blew my mind. I jumped out of bed and e-mailed her mother right away,” he said.

Jessie's mother, who keeps in regular contact with Mahoney, is hopeful the Jane Doe is not her missing daughter. But like Mahoney, agrees there are many similarities.

“The teeth match, the facial features match, the physical description matches — 90-percent sure it is her,” he said.

But North Las Vegas police caution that only a DNA comparison, which is still pending, will be able to determine whether the body in Texas is really Jessie Foster.

Until then, it remains an open missing person's case.

It's not what the mother wants, of course, but at least it gives closure to the family. Then the investigation really starts for police. Foster's boyfriend, Peter Todd, denies having any knowledge of her whereabouts.

Police say he was the last person to see her and was questioned twice by investigators but he is not a suspect.

Police say there is still no evidence that any crime has been committed. But if this unidentified body does turn out to be Jessie Foster, this missing persons case will most likely turn into a homicide investigation.

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