KOH Special News Reports

Two people have died after a two-car crash that was reported late Saturday night on Pyramid Way in Sparks. The initial investigation indicates a car was either slowed or stopped on Pyramid when another car struck it from behind. Mario Cortez has been identified by Nevada Highway Patrol as the suspect arrested in the deadly hit-and-run crash. Cortez, 35, was booked at Washoe County Jail. He faces felony charges of DUI resulting in death and hit-and-run, among other misdemeanors. The identities of the two people killed were not disclosed.

Police are looking for a gold-colored Chevrolet sedan that hit a Washoe County School District school bus around 4 p.m. Friday in Sun Valley, and then fled the scene. There were no injuries and the bus had only one student and a driver when it was hit near the intersection of El Rancho Drive and Sun Valley Boulevard according to police.

A man serving a 150-year sentence for rape, kidnap and other charges in Mineral County died Friday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center regional medical facility. The Nevada Department of Corrections said in a statement that inmate Julian R. Falcon, 49, died at 7:45 a.m. The cause of death was not listed and the Carson City Sheriff's Office is arranging for an autopsy.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will break ground this month on the new Goldfield Visitor Center, on 1.25 acres, along the eastside of U.S. Highway 95 between First and Second streets in Goldfield, which is about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas. Plans call for constructing a single-story, 1,200-square-foot building which will cost just over $700,000. The semi-collapsed bottle building and existing bathrooms on the northeast corner of the site will remain untouched. Construction will finish by late fall. Esmeralda County will assume maintenance responsibilities upon completion.

Two people have died after a two-car crash that was reported late Saturday night on Pyramid Way in Sparks. The initial investigation indicates a car was either slowed or stopped on Pyramid when another car struck it from behind. Mario Cortez has been identified by Nevada Highway Patrol as the suspect arrested in the deadly hit-and-run crash. Cortez, 35, was booked at Washoe County Jail. He faces felony charges of DUI resulting in death and hit-and-run, among other misdemeanors. The identities of the two people killed were not disclosed.

Police are looking for a gold-colored Chevrolet sedan that hit a Washoe County School District school bus around 4 p.m. Friday in Sun Valley, and then fled the scene. There were no injuries and the bus had only one student and a driver when it was hit near the intersection of El Rancho Drive and Sun Valley Boulevard according to police.

Two people died in a Pyramid Highway traffic accident Saturday night and a suspect has been arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving and felony drunken driving causing death.

The federal trial of rancher Cliven Bundy and 18 other defendants, scheduled for next month in Las Vegas, has been postponed.

Several lanes of the Pyramid Highway were closed overnight into the early morning, after a fatal accident involving two cars on Disc Dr. and Pyramid Highway.

Beginning Monday through mid May, Pyramid Way will be reduced to one lane from Greenbrae Dr. north to McCarran Blvd. from 7 am to 6 pm.