Nicco Tatum, the teen who opened fire at a bus stop, will go to prison. The shooting happened last December and left four Mojave High School students wounded.

Tatum did plead guilty on three charges, admitting to the December 2007 shooting. However, when it came his turn to talk in court he used explicit language and lashed out at the judge and police.

Tatum was also sentenced earlier on another attempted murder charge for shooting a woman after an argument over her dog.

Tatum is sentenced to a maximum of 61 years in prison. He is expected to testify against others involved in the shooting.

One person is dead and another hospitalized after a crash that literally cut a car in half. It happened in North Las Vegas at Alexander and Civic Center.

Police say the driver of a white Acura ran a stop sign traveling anywhere from 75 to 100 miles an hour. That car then slammed into an El Camino.

The force was so strong, the Acura was cut in half. The second victim was actually walking and talked as he was taken to the hospital.

The North Las Vegas Fire Department has confirmed that two pit bulls killed a 4-month-old baby boy. Eyewitness News at 4, 5 & 6 will have more details.

Nevada is one of three states leading the nation in foreclosure filings for August. Nevada saw an increase of 27-percent, which is higher than a year ago, but less than previous months.

One of the hardest hit areas of the Las Vegas valley is North Las Vegas. On Saturday, there will be a free foreclosure workshop for residents who are in danger of losing their homes. It is hosted by the city of North Las Vegas and there will be representatives from the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Service, the Departmetn of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Housing Administration.

The 7-hour workshop takes place at the Texas Station, at Rancho and Lake Mead, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Two women are under arrest for kidnapping after police say they tried to prove a point about an elementary school's security.

Laurinda Drake's son goes to Jo Mackey Elementary. She says after she dropped off her son for school, she noticed a young boy walking away from the school. She picked him up and says he didn't know where he lived and he didn't want to go back to school. So she took him to the Clark County School District office.

But police recount a much different tale.

Officers say Drake picked up the boy and drove him around to several different locations, including a Wal-Mart. She then took the boy to a friend's house, 40-year-old Elaine Clermont, where police say they arranged local media outlets to meet them at the Clark County Board of Trustees building where they would turn the boy over to the School District.

When Drake and Clermont arrived at the school building, they were met by Clark County School District Police. Officers say they tried asking Drake questions, but she was uncooperative. She was then cuffed and taken into a private room.

After hours of speaking with her, school officers determined Drake actually kidnapped the first grader.

Clermont says Drake was only trying to do the right thing and point out there is a problem with school security. Clermont claims this is not the first time kids have walked off school property at Jo Mackey, and that's why they went to the district office.

“Last year I was walking up to campus to pick up my daughter from school, I saw a kindergartener walking out the front gates. I said, ‘Where you going young man?'” she said.

Apparently, the first grader felt sick and was trying to go home after eating breakfast at school. Why no one at the school saw him leave is still an unanswered question.

But school police say they have a strict policy for handling this type of situation. “There would be no school that would release a first grader on his own if he were ill or anything like that. That wouldn't happen. Parents would be contacted,” said CCSD Lt. Ken Young.

Young says this was an isolated incident. School officials are investigating how this happened. No one at Jo Mackey was able to comment on the case. The first grader has since been reunited with his mom.

Drake and Clermont were arrested for first degree kidnapping and were booked into the North Las Vegas Jail.  

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Channel 8 Eyewitness News obtained the audio tapes from the last minutes on board an experimental plane that crashed two weeks ago. You can hear the pilot telling the tower he's going in.

Three people died — the pilot and two people in the house he hit. The elderly couple was just waking up for the day.

Eyewitnesses reported hearing the plane's engine rev then cut off. You could not tell from the conversation with the tower what was happening, but you could hear the concern in the pilot's voice.

Listen to the airport's tower audio tapes

The experimental plane was in the air only one minute 48 seconds. The flight started like any other at the North Las Vegas Airport.

It was supposed to be a test flight for the engine. The NTSB says the owner of the plane added a supercharger to it. The FAA says the engine should have been re-certified to fly, but was not.

Confident that it would work, pilot Mack Murphree asked the tower to take off at about 6:26 a.m.

When a pilot requests to stay in the pattern, other pilots say that means he intended to circle and land again. According to the NTSB the experimental plane did not have the hours to legally land again at North Las Vegas.

It did not matter, the tower noticed something was wrong, “Mike kelo, do you need assistance, sir?”

The response did not answer the question, but you could hear it in the pilot's voice, “Going in. Gong in. Going in. Going in.”

The crash destroyed a home in a gated community on Lake Mead near Simmons. Jack Costa dies in the home on impact. So did the pilot Murphree. Lucy Costa survived the crash, but died later at the hospital.

At the end of the tape, a tower supervisor asked the controller what happened, “I looked up and he was not flying real good. I asked him if he needed assistance. Said he was going in.”

The NTSB doesn't have the final answer to why the plane crashed. That will come in several months.

The plane was based out of Show Low Airport east of Flagstaff, Arizona.

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An emotional meeting is expected to dominate the North Las Vegas Airport Thursday night. Two plane crashes in less than a week at the end of last month have bubbled emotions about the airport to the surface.

The chorus for change has grown louder from residents living around the North Las Vegas Airport. Now the Clark county commissioner for this area wants action.

SLIDESHOW: Plane Crashes Into Home

Thursday night, residents, pilots and airport representatives will talk about what can be done in the name of safety.

Aug. 22 – an experimental plane crashed, killing the elderly pilot and elderly couple in their home.

Aug. 28 – a twin engine plane went down. The pilot died, but this time five people ran to safety from the house.

SLIDESHOW: Plane Crashes Into North Las Vegas Home

Now a second meeting is aimed at easing tensions as Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly calls for change.

“I don't think that anyone would want that as you are trying to raise your families and live our lives to have to worry that if I am at home watching television, minding my own business with my family, that I have to worry about a plane crashing in my home,” said Weekly.

He knows. Not only is the North Las Vegas Airport in his district. Weekly lives within a mile of the airport.

“It's amazing when you can stand in my front yard and see the low altitude that some of these pilots are flying. You can actually see the pilot in the plane. That is a little scary,” said Weekly.

Weekly plans to write a letter to Nevada's congressional delegation asking them to change the law about governing airports.

He wants the Clark County aviation director to require experimental planes and beginning pilots to fly from rural airports – not urban ones like North Las Vegas.

“You cannot be guaranteed 100-percent. I think moving operations like that to a more rural area of town would give some solution and peace of mind to the residents that live there,” said Weekly.

Aviation Association President Dave Lerner says that will not work because pilots from other airports won't know the rules. “Can you imagine the chaos that would cause if I were to take off from the North Las Vegas Airport and not know the rules and regulations of another airport?”

He organized the meeting to listen to concerns and offer a pilot's perspective. “I do agree with them that we need to enforce the procedures, and I don't know too many pilots who do not follow the procedures. They would be darn fools if they don't,” said Lerner.

Lerner hopes that by engaging the community a middle ground can be found so scenes like this don't create an us and them mentality.

The meeting is open to the public and starts at 6 p.m. at the North Las Vegas Airport. Any changes to flight numbers or restrictions of who can take off where would have to come from an act of Congress.

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Residents came together after two plane crashes happened in neighborhoods just like theirs. The neighbors have been concerned for years and while they all knowingly moved in next to the North Las Vegas Airport, now that two planes crashed into neighboring homes they are even more scared for their safety.

Three were killed in the first crash and only the pilot died in the second. In all, three homes were damaged or destroyed.

A lot of neighbors, and some pilots have complaints about the Clark County Department of Aviation. Yes, the airport was in place before the homes, but why was it allowed to grow so much? The meeting was designed to bring issues to the table and work on finding solutions.

These are the risks of having a busy airport in your backyard - a plane making an emergency landing on your street, or worse yet, a plane crashing right into your home.

A meeting on the North Las Vegas Airport sparked some fireworks. The group is aptly-named “Not Tonight! The North Las Vegas Airport Gave Me a Headache.”

“We've had 66 incidents as verified by Forbes Magazine, again making us the most dangerous airport in the nation,” said Ed Gobel with Not Tonight.

Neighbors sounded off about their pains. “They fly very close sometimes. You can give them a cup of coffee almost, that's how close. You can make out their faces,” said Sharon Gobel.

Sharon is concerned about her children's safety, “I get a little worried if they're going outside and playing. And my daughter's school is less than a block away from us.”

The most common complaint is planes flying too low above homes. And with two different planes falling from the sky down onto homes in less than a week, Marcus Gobel is living in fear and worried about his kids, “We say, ‘Hi.' to the people in the planes going by almost every single day.”

The pilots had their say, too. “I've got to say some things because I'm sitting here listening to this and I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down,” said Ed Smith. “They are a lot higher than you think they are.”

It's a complex issue that's gotten bigger over the years, but something everyone in this room has an opinion on.

“It's like having a little cottage behind your house, and all of a sudden having a huge mega-resort behind your house. That's what it's like and nobody listens to you,” said Ditty Markoff.

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