Vegas police: 11 DUI arrests at weekend checkpoint

LAS VEGAS—Police say 11 motorists were arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs during an eight-hour sobriety checkpoint during the weekend at a busy area several blocks west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas police and Nevada Highway Patrol troopers reported checking more than 4,700 vehicles from 7 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday in the area of Sahara Avenue and Valley View Boulevard.
Police say the effort was coordinated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and was partially funded by a Nevada Department of Public Safety traffic safety grant.

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NFL notes: Scare over Bush's knee short-lived

METAIRIE, La. -- Reggie Bush reached down to grab his left knee, gasped as if in pain, then looked over at the sideline, grinning.
Bush realized he'd caused a stir Wednesday morning when he suddenly walked off the practice field and returned with his surgically repaired left knee wrapped in ice.
So during the club's second practice of the day in the evening, the star running back took a moment to joke about it, then returned to full participation in team drills.

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"I iced it just as a precaution, so when I ice it, that means I'm just maintaining," Bush said between practices. "I've got to stay on top of it and treat it as if it was the first day I injured it."
Bush had surgery on his left knee in December to repair cartilage. Drafted second overall in 2006, the Heisman Trophy winner out of Southern California has missed 10 games in his past two seasons, including four games in 2007 because of a posterior cruciate ligament tear, also in his left knee.
Goodell reassures retired players on benefits
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is reassuring retired players that their pensions and benefits would not be reduced in a labor dispute, refuting statements made by the NFL Players Association.
In a letter sent to the NFL Alumni Board of Directors on Wednesday, Goodell says claims made by the union - including NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith - "have no basis in fact."
Smith told a group of retired players at a meeting in Las Vegas in June that their benefits would be affected.


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Wrong-way driver busted for DWI

Police say a man high on prescription drugs almost crashed head-on into one of their officers, and they say they have the tape to prove it.
On July 18, just before Midnight in Las Vegas, 8 year state police veteran Kiersten Harzewski was taking a drunk driver to jail when she saw headlights approaching in her lane.
She immediately turned around and stopped the car.
She says she found 24-year-old Dominic Vigil dazed and confused behind the wheel.
Other officers rushed to the scene to help Harzewski since she was using her only pair of cuffs on the suspected drunk in the back of her car.
Vigil admitted to taking the powerful narcotic Lortab before driving. He then failed a series of sobriety tests.
"While processing him in the medical center in Las Vegas, a baggie fell out of his sock containing a baggie of blue pills which turned out to be Xanax," State Police Spokesman Lt. Eric Garcia said Thursday.
The pills weren't in a prescription bottle and Vigil couldn't show cops prescriptions for either medication, so they added possession charges to his DWI.
Even after that, Vigil still can't grasp what just happened.
He asked in the dashcam video, "What did I do wrong?"
Harzewski responded, "You almost killed me."
Vigil was already on probation for possession when he was busted, but state police say he has no prior DWI charges on his record.


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