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1. The first week of school ended with the arrest of a 12-year-old girl. Police say she stabbed a 16-year-old high school student with a knife on White Academy grounds all before the school bell rang. The 16-year-old is expected to survive. The suspect is in custody for battery with a deadly weapon.

2. A local man allegedly threatening to bomb or carry out a mass shooting at a topless club last year is in custody. Police say the lengthy investigation led them to Christopher Watkins. Police are saying he used Facebook Messenger to threaten Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club Las Vegas.

3. The Trump administration quietly ended a six-year ban on selling bottled water at some national parks. The 2011 action under the Obama administration was put in place to ease plastic pollution. The National Park Service says the ban removed the healthiest beverage choice at parks.

Angel Bautista reacts about the stabbing at his Middle School in Henderson. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Clark County plans to install hundreds of steel posts along the Las Vegas Strip.

Urgency to install the bollards has increased after deadly attacks in which cars has been driven through crowds.

Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak said attacks have made installing the bollards a top priority for the county.

About 700 posts will be added between Spring Mountain Road and Tropicana Avenue.

The bollards will shield areas including the Bellagio fountains, Harrah’s and Paris Las Vegas.

Officials say the posts are strong enough to stop a flatbed truck traveling 55 mph.

The contract with Las Vegas-based Muller Construction is worth nearly $4 million.

Work is expected to begin by early October and will take up to 60 days.

Clark County School District Police Department Capt. Ken Young briefs the media on a stabbing Friday morning at a Henderson middle school.

A student stabbed another student at Thurman White Middle School, according to Henderson police.

Friday was the fifth day of school.

Police responded to the call about 9:30 a.m.

No further information from police has been provided.

Thurman White Principal Andrea Katona said a student from another school entered the campus and confronted a Thurman White student in the Quad area.

Staff members intervened and one student was transported for medical attention while the other was taken into custody.

CCSD said the incident happened before the bell rang in the morning.

The school serves about 1,600 students.

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A Las Vegas man spent two years luring children with candy and molesting them.

Jose Azucena, 64, was a close family friend of the five girls who were victimized between November 2014 and October 2016.

The crimes happened at his northeast valley apartment complex.

He was charged with sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping. He groped, kissed and exposed himself to the girls, ages 7 to 9.

He duct-taped the arms, legs and mouth of one girl, and threatened to kill their parents, the prosecutor said.

He was convicted of 25 felonies and five gross misdemeanors.

Azucena had been deported twice and served 18 years in prison in the U.S. for manslaughter before this case.

Judge Richard Scotti sentenced him to life in prison.

A Las Vegas police officer was taken to the hospital after a scuffle on the Strip.

Officers responded to Casino Royale at 7:30 a.m. for a petit larceny call.

The thief was known to hit properties on the Strip, police said.

A scuffle broke out between the suspect and three responding officers, who were trying to take him into custody.

Two officers were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Another officer, who complained of knee pain, was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

A Las Vegas mom pleaded guilty to throwing her children out a second-story window.

Luz Ibarra jumped out of the window of her home after tossing out her 2-year-old daughter and 6-month old son.

Her daughter suffered facial fractures and exhibited an altered mental state. Her son suffered a skull fracture, bleeding on the brain, and leg fractures.

Ibarra, 37, stopped taking antidepressants just before the attempted murder-suicide, according to police.

She pleaded mentally ill.

She faces two to 20 years behind bars. Her sentencing is set for October. Her attorney plans to ask for probation.

Ibarra is likely to be deported to Mexico.

A young man was shot at a shopping center in the central Las Vegas Valley.

Police say the shooter walked inside a business, argued with some people he knew and then fired two rounds.

Officers responded about 5 p.m. Wednesday to 3735 Spring Mountain Road.

A man who didn’t work at the business was struck at least once, in the stomach.

He was taken to University Medical Center. His condition is unknown.

Officials say the shooter was also a young man and is at large.

Fright Dome at Circus Circus plans to hire over 400 people for its 15th anniversary season. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal

A Las Vegas police officer who was arrested last year on child porn charges has died.

Ruben Delgadillo was booked into the Clark County Detention Center in August 2016 on five counts of possession of child porn and one count of distribution of child porn.

His status hearing was set for Aug. 29.

Delgadillo joined the department in July 2015 and was assigned to the northwest area.