Bill conger, boulder cities chief of Police Administration has resigned, and while the city wont officialy say its because of the animal control investigaton. Those who have been following the case closely say him leaving his post can only help. The public wants transparency in the case and we want a full fair thorough investigation so if that was being hindered in any way by the police chief him stepping helps that case. Conger, who was acting as a sort of interim police chief, came under fire recently after it was made public that he dropped a criminal case against mary jo frazier, the former animal control supervisor accused of needlessly killing animals it was not bill congers place to make the sole decision on wether to pursue the case or not, this is something that shouldve been turned over to the District Attorney and have them resign. The investigation is now in the hands of the District Attorney, but for many, conger dropping the case was a clear violation of the retired chief of Police Thomas finn even called it one of the most disturbing things he had ever seen. He said during his time in office he had. Never ordered a case be closed out of fear of who might get muddied, and unlike william conger, he has never practiced policing by appeasment. Boulder city says they never got a letter of resignation from conger, and theyre not giving any details about the investigation. But many who call boulder city home think they deserve to know whats going on. Theyre saying theres a lot to the story theyre still not being told. If we continue to delve into the details of this case, i have a gut feeling, not sustantiated, that other things will turn up as well. Boulder city local lisa savy who i spoke to today actually started a petition about a month ago demanding the city place charges against frazier for animal cruelty and saying that it wasnt congers place to decide not to press charges. That signatures. Live in the newsroom, miguel martinezvalle, fox5 news local. Las vegas. The city is currently trying to charge frazier with 37 felony animal cruelty counts because of the Animal Shelter deaths. A son is arrested in connection to his fathers death. This is the first homicide of the year for henderson. Police say there was a domestic disturbance around 1130 am at a home near patrick and stephanie. Officers found a mans body with a gunshot wound. Police say the victims 22yearold son Daron Clanton was arrested. He faces an open murder charge. Neighbors were surprised when they heard someone had been killed. This is las vegas and everything happens here. Unfortunately its not really news to the residents of las vegas. It is shocking that it happened right on my street. Henderson police home for any Domestic Violence issues in the past. A body was found early this morning at a local high school campus. Police tell us School Officials reported the body around 530 this morning outside of las vegas academy. If was found near the back of the building off of 7 th street near bridger. Officials say theyre investigating the death as a suicide. Classes were not cancelled students still had their normal schedule. It was a deadly weekend on valley roads. Eight people died in two days. Those eight people died in six separate crashes throughout southern nevada. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg talked to one of the familys who lost a loved one this weekend. She joins us live from the crash site on dean martin and flamingo. I spoke to the family of navy veteran Maurice Walker. He was killed Early Saturday Morning while riding his motorcycle home from work when he apparently lost control. His wife describes her husband as the nicest guy youd ever meet. And says his nick Ashley Walker shows her six month old daughter the last photo taken of her dad. Friday morning you would just call him a big teddy bear because hes so big and gentle it was just a pure accident im guessing walker says her husband maruice didnt come home from work. And she immediately knew something was wrong. One o clock i jumped up where is he metro police say just after midnight saturday navy veteran Maurice Walker lost control making a turn on dean martin and flamingo. And slid into a light pole. At first i was in denial i was hurt and started to cry but then i was like maybe they have the wrong person i just didnt want to believe it walker was one of just eight People Killed on valley roads in a 48 hour span last weekend. Aaron patty pio North Las Vegas police dept a good reminder for people to slow down be aware of your surroundings your not only affecting you as well walker tells fox 5 she began calling hospitals franticaly in the middle of the night. Thats when she found her husband. He was at umc and doctors told her. He didnt make it. Walker says this weekend she lost her best friend. We always talked always talked and thats whats so hard i wish someone drove him off so i can blame them but i cant it was just his time ashley and Maurice Walker have a six month old daugther named jaslene and another baby on the way. Maurice walker served in the navy for six years. And was now working to get a job working on computers. Police say this crash remains under investigation. Reporting live Cyndi Lundeberg fox 5 news local las vegas. The Walker Family tells fox 5 there will be a vigil held in honor of Maurice Walker tommorrow night. Its going to be at the site of the crash on dean martin drive and flamingo. Anyone is welcome to attend the event. A former clark county commissioner arrested for dui did not show up for his court tom collins was arrested on december 11th after crashing his vehicle while leaving the thomas and mack center. The 65year old former Democratic State lawmaker had a court date scheduled today. His attorney Michael Pariente wanted an extra day to confirm he will represent collins. The hearing has been rescheduled for tomorrow. Lamar odom will not be facing drug charges following the incident at a parhump brothel back in october odom was found unconcious at the bunny ranch with cocaine in his system. But because he did not have any cocaine on him when he was found the county will not be pressing any charges. They say it is unlikely he would be convicted because they cannot prove he took the drugs while he was in nye county. A special Sex Education meeting at ccsd tonight. To discuss curriculum your students could see starting next year. Fox fives Elizabeth Watts is live at flamingo and mccleod with what was discussed tonight. The special sex ed Committee Held a discuss different lesson plans. But theres a lot more back and forth before anything is finalized. Its not the typical ccsd sex ed meetings youve seen in the past. Monday night featured a nearly empty school board room. The Sex EducationAdvisory Committee meeting to review several lesson plans drafted by the district. After a special meeting last september. Danielle miller ccsd those being statuatory rape, negotiation skills and how to obtain contraceptives the committee is made up of Different Community members. Each lending a different point of view to whats been a touchy subject in the community. David strickland committ ee chair parent you have parents on here you have doctors you have teachers you have religious person, cleric. They all come together and have their own input they went through the different lesson plans. And mentioned things that could be added to make them more impactful for the students. Michelene newman Committee Member we could add statistics there so they have a better idea of the risk involved Danielle Miller i think people really appreciated seeing things more written out and see what it would look like in a classroom there was room for public comment. But less than a handful of people had their voices heard in the meeting that lasted just over an hour. Mos i would like to think those could be produced in a video series and the series could be produced with the Clark County Health district they also approved supplemental materials. To update the old c dc fact sheets in schools. So kids can learn about different stds. How theyre spread. Treated. And prevented. So now the lesson drafts goes back to the school board. Who will send it back to the committee and then to the school board again for possible action. And in the next few months the committee will also be discussing other lesson plans on topics like gender identity. Reporting live ew ffn llv. When finalized these materials would be implemented in the following School Voters can now receive sample ballots through email. That could help the county save more than a Million Dollars. Were excited today because its an opportunity to be put into the citizens hands to help us save some money. Getting their sample ballot electronically will definitely be a good step in saving the tax payers some money this election season. It costs a little more than a dollarandeighty cents to make and send out a paper sample ballot. But it adds up Officials Say switching to get them electronically can help save more than 1 point5 Million Dollars. You can opt in to get a sample ballot through email by going onto clark countys website. Tomorrow president obama will be making his final state of the Union Address. We will be covering that speech right here on fox5. It starts at 6 tomorrow night. Followed by a special edition of fox five at 7 30. It will cost a little less to fill your gas tank here in the valley. The average price per gallon is twodollars and 51 cents. Thats according to gas buddy. Week. However some people around the country are paying around 50 cents less for gas. The National Average is around twodollars per gallon. Nevadans rush to stateline to get lottery tickets for a Record Powerball jackpot. Its now at one pointfour billion dollars cash value is more than 800 million. Many locals made the drive to lotto stores in california and arizona. Our state does not have a lottery since. Its prohibited in the nevada constitution. Gaming experts say casinos and the gaming industry dont want the competition. For some states lottery profits go to education. Public transportation. Or homeless services. Some wonder if we losing out by not having a lottery . Not as long as big gaming continues to run the show its really hard to say we do have a lot of gaming revenue coming in would it be nice to have more yeah but what would the cost be to set up a new hard to say. The next powerball drawing is wednesday night. A new coach and a new start for the runnin rebels. But how is the Team Reacting to the forced resignation of dave rice . It is the first full day of todd simon being in charge of the runnin rebels as dave rice has been ousted as head coach. Im Kevin Bolinger. Were gonna let you know how the team practiced today and how theyre moving forward, striaght ahead. You said yes, so now what . tomorrow morning on fox5, were celebrating the most romantic time of the year. Engagement season weve got the scoop on all of the musthaves to help get you ready for your big day. Your fox5 weather 24 7 forecast is live from las vegas. Youre watching fox5 news at 10, with Emmy Award Winner john huck. Christine maddela. And weather 24 7 with chief meteoroligist ted pretty. This is fox5 news at 10. Local. Las vegas. Yesterday dave rice was forced rebels. Today were hearing reaction from the players for the first time. Fox5s Kevin Bolinger was with the team at practice and says the team is focused on the job at hand. Kevin on camera looking for a chance to save the season, the dave rice era is over at unlv. Todd simon is the interim head coach and this afternoon he began to put his stamp on the team while the players try to process what happened and how they move forward. Nats of practice it was business as usual for the runnin rebels as they worked out in preparation for tuesday nights home game against new mexico. Boss running the after dave resignation, assistant todd simon was put in charge. Its a move the players said was surprising but they vow it wont change their will to win. Ben carter were each other and for coach rice because he is the reason that we are all here together as a part of this program. Its up to us to turn our season around. Ike nwamu were all trying to stay unified and were gonna take what our coaches are giving us and then apply it moving forward because we can still have a special season. Simon says at this point in the season hell make only minor changes putting more emphasis on full Court Pressure and pending practices focsued on whathe calls winning time a spot where unlv has struggled this year. Todd simon were working on a milion type of situations. Put that time on the clock and simulate it until they have the confidence to say ive already rehearsed this over and over and over. The coaching change was made to that has the potential in the world andhas 15 games plus the conference tournament to make todd simon the is a lost season have obviously not been in our meetings or at our practices and dont know the character of these kids. These this community can give them and i truly believe theyre going to reward the community for that faith. Kevin on cam and hows this for irony . Every year before the season starts season Ticket Holders get their package with all of the tickets for the season. A different person within the runnin rebels program is featured on each games ticket. The person featured for tuesday nights game against new mexico . You guessed it dave rice. Outside the thomas bolinger, fox 5 vegas. We will have complete highlights and post game reaction after tomorrow nights game live from the thomas and mack on fox 5 news at 10 and 11. Now fox5 weather 24 7, with chief meterologist ted pretty well see some clouds overnight with a morning start of 35 degrees. Some areas around the Las Vegas Valley will see freezing temperatures. Well with afternoon highs through the workweek. Wednesday afternoon well see southwest breezes to 15 mph with northwest breezes to 20 mph on thursday. Highs get close to 60 degrees this weekend with lows around 40 degrees. We pick up a slight chance of showers sunday and monday. Well see some clouds overnight with a morning start of 35 degrees. Some areas around the las see freezing temperatures. Well stay in the mid50s with afternoon highs through the workweek. Wednesday afternoon well see southwest breezes to 15 mph with northwest breezes to 20 mph on thursday. Highs get close to 60 degrees this weekend with lows around 40 degrees. We pick up a slight chance of showers sunday and monday. Closed captioning closed captioning will resume shortly helldorado days. Its a tradition that started more than 80 years ago. This year, its getting a makeover. Find out when it is. And what changes are coming to the traditional event. A group of kids. Ditching class to where it happened. And what the caller says needs to happen now to those kids. Its one of the rants tonight. We its called a rigged economy, and this is how it works. Most new wealth flows to the top 1 . Its a system held in place by corrupt politics where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. My campaign is powered by over a million small contributions, people like you who want to fight back. The truth is you cant change a corrupt system by taking its money. Im bernie sanders. I approve this message. Its the superbowl of College Football alabama and clemson face off in the National Championship game. With clemson new guy in here. Youre missing your ohio states, other big schools like that. With alabama its definitely made it interesting but its been very good action wise as far as money coming in. Tonight alabama won its Fourth National title in seven seasons. Sports books were packed as football fans watched the game. The Westgate Las Vegas sports book says most bettors put their money on alabama. Because of their experience in playoffs. Tickets were three to one on alabama won 45 to 40. Helldorado days is coming back to pbr to celebrate las vegas birthday. And its bigger and better than ever. The announcement was made today at city hall by the professional bullriding organization. The new addition is part of the built ford tough series tour. The elite competition features some of the best bull riders in the world. The event will feature live entertainment. But also an old west town. A carnival. And even a history of las vegas and helldorado display. Being able to provide a home for the las vegas rodeo and being able to provide fans and local families the opportunity to experience the lifestyle and the roots of las vegas, its really special for us. It all starts may 13th and lasts until the 15th at the Las Vegas Villiage at mgm grand. Levis Distribution Center in henderson received a special award for their enviornmentally friendly efforts. For leed it means means its better for the planet, which means it uses less energy, less water, sends less waste to the landfill. So its better for the enviornment, better for the community here in henderson, but its also better for the people in the building, who are working in the building. Henderson mayor andy hafen and councilwomen debra march attended the award ceremony. Fewer than 7 percent of the nearly 70,000 leed projects earn a platinum rating. And levis Distribution Center is the largest facility to ever receive the award. The controversy over abuse at the Animal Shelter in boulder city continues. The latest fallout comes with the resignation the interim police chief. We have more the on the backlash hes been receiving. El chapo is back in custody. Awaiting extradion to the United States. What Authorities Say helped lead to his arrest. And how long it could take for him on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. Shell get the job done for us. The interim police chief in boulder city has resigned this after backlash from the community for not against the former animal control supervisor. Fox5s miguel martinezvalle has the details bill conger, boulder cities chief of Police Administration has resigned, the city wont officialy say its because of the animal control investigaton but those who have been following the case closely think hes leaving because of the the case closely think hes leaving because of the backlash hes been getting in the last month. In december it was made public that conger dropped a criminal case against former animal control supervisor mary jo frazier. Frazier was allowed to retire even though a Police Investigation found she had been killing nearly half of the animals that were coming in to the care of the boulder city Animal Shelter. Many of these animals were family pets, and many in the Boulder City Community were outraged when they found out what had been happening. I opened up the newspaper and i saw the article and i real, can somebody really get away with Something Like that and retire quietly in oregon, it just seemed very otrageous. Lisa savy was so upset she even started a change dot org petition demanding the city press charges against frazier. That petition now has over 18 hundred signatures, the petition also says it was not congers place to decide wether she was guilty or innocent or wether she should be charged for killing those animals. The investigation is now in the hands of the District Attorney, many in the Boulder City Community are hoping this helps bring justice to the animals killed frazier could be charged with 37 felony animal cruelty counts because of the Animal Shelter deaths. Police arrested a man and charged him in connection to hendersons first homicide of the year. Police say it started this morning with a domestic disturbance call at a home near patrick and stephanie. Inside the home they found a man dead from a gunshot wound. The mans wife and son were also in the home. Henderson Police Arrested the victims 22 year old son. Daron clanton. The name of the victim has not been released. There were four homicides all of last year in henderson the Militia Group continues occupy an oregon wildlife refuge now for more than a week. Ammon bundy leading the charge repeating the groups message about property belonging to the people. Not the government. the federal governments rules are outlined in the constitution of the United States and that it is our duty when they will not step back in that cage that we have assure that they do that, and that is what they are doing here bundy saying the situation about more than just this one piece of federal land. The group promises to continue its takeover of the land until dwight and Steve Hammond are released from prison, for starting a fire that spread onto federal land. President obama will present his final state of the Union Address to congress and the nation tomorrow night. Since i took office seven years ago, in the midst of crisis, i dont think ive ever been as optimistic about a year ahead as i am right now. Although the president s term is almost up. He says there are still plenty of things that need to be done. Matthew dallek is assistant professor at the George WashingtonUniversity Graduate school of political management. He says president obama will likely forego a laundry list, and go bigger picture. Talking about where the country is, and the kind of policies that he haschampioned, and result, and then also what does he want to get done in his final year. The state of the Union Address will begin at six pm. You can watch it fox5. Then stick around news. Kingpin Joaquin El Chapo guzman was captured last week by mexican nearly six months now we are hearing from him for the first time. After he sat down in october with Actor Sean Penn for an interview in Rolling Stone magazine. Look, all i do is defend myself, nothing more. I do not start looking for trouble. Mexicos attorney general now says the interview was essential to el chapos capture. As intelligence teams were tracking penns visit. Mexico plans to send el chapo to the us to face justice. But his attorneys are fighting the move. mr. Guzman loera should not be extradited to the United States or any other country. Just laws that are detailed in the general constitution of the republic. Guzman faces seven drug related indictments in various us jurisdictions. The extradition process could take up to a year, or longer. The us bombed a building with millions of dollars of isis money inside. Defense Officials Say the airstrike in mosul, iraq was an unusual target. But the building housed huge amounts of cash which isis used to pay its troops. Us warplanes have expanded their list of targets in recent weeks, hitting isis oil trucks and other locations in iraq. The bail for the mother dubbed affluenza mom has been reduced from one Million Dollars to 75 thousand dollars. Tonya couch going before a judge today in texas. There were terms to the reductions. She must report her whereabouts to department of corrections. She must live with her other son and abstain from drugs and alcohol while on to pay a sixty dollar a month supervision fee and pay back Tarrant CountySheriffs Department for the cost of picking her up in los angeles. We are talking about a third degree felony here, not a capital murder, or a murder or a sexual assault. We are talking about a case that the range is two to ten years. Not two to ninety nine, not life. Couch is accused of fleeing to mexico with her 18yearold son ethan, who was on probation for a drunk driving accident that killed four people. The show is coming to an end for elephants. The ringling brothers barnum and bailey circus will stop using the animals in its shows this may. Thats a year and a half earlier than what was previously announced. The asian elephants will retire to florida. The company said preparations for the new retirees at its 200acre center for Elephant Conservation were completed much sooner than anticipated. Ringling brothers criticized, picketed and even sued by several Animal Rights groups for its treatments of the elephants. In march, the circus announced it would phase out elephants from its shows by 2018. The world remembers a music legend. Chchch changes. Turn and face the strange, chchchanges david bowie. Dead at 69. We have a look at his career that spanned more than 40 years. Your fox5 weather 24 7 forecast is coming up next we have tributes to david bowie in reminds us of the time bowie ripped mtv. What that meant to her. Coming up weve dodged freezing temperatures for here in the valley. But in new york. They arent so lucky. Icy water from lake erie, snow, rain and heavy winds created this carcicle near buffalo. A lake effect snow band was dumping about two inches of snow per hour on the region this morning. Its unclear how long before the owner of the car will able to get inside. An amazing site on the big island. Hawaiis kilauea volcano spewing smoke and lava into the air. The massive explosion came as rocks fell into the volcanos lava lake at the halemaumau crater. Scientists say large explosions like this only happen when the lava lake level is relatively high. Experts say the blast does not pose a risk to neighboring communities. Kilaueas ongoing eruption started in january of 1983. Now fox5 weather 24 7, with chief meterologist ted pretty well see some clouds overnight with a morning start of 35 vegas valley will temperatures. Well stay in the mid50s with afternoon highs through the workweek. Wednesday afternoon well see southwest breezes to 15 mph with northwest breezes to 20 mph on close to 60 degrees lows around 40 degrees. We pick up a slight chance of showers sunday and monday. Well see some clouds overnight with a morning start of 35 degrees. Some areas around the Las Vegas Valley will temperatures. Well stay in the mid50s with afternoon highs through the workweek. Wednesday afternoon well see southwest breezes to 15 mph with northwest breezes to 20 mph on thursday. Highs get close to 60 degrees this weekend with lows around 40 degrees. We pick up a slight chance of showers sunday and monday. Monday. Closed captioning closed captioning will resume shortly gas prices are well under a buck fifty in some areas of the country. But in las vegas. Youll pay about a dollar more a gallon and a lot of you suspect we are being gouged. We have a caller on that. But first this guy on why some young people are in dire need of some old school punishment. Dave rice is out as head coach of the runnin rebels. This caller on why the boosters better start ponying up if they ever want to win the lines of the lines of nevadans just keeps growing as a lot of us are going for that one point four billion dollar powerball jackpot. And whenever we see all that money going out of state. We hear from quite a few of you. Why dont we have a lottery . This next caller isnt sold though. We lost one of we lost one of the greats. David bowie lost an 18 month fight with cancer that happened in private. The pop music star just two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his latest album. Which hints at death. This caller reminds us how bowie blasted mtv discriminating against black song heroes by heres a look at whats coming up. On fox five news at eleven. Boulder citys interim police chief steps down. After controversy over how an animal abuse case was handled. What people here say needs to happen for the city to heal. And the biggest concerns nevadans say they have, when it comes to protecting our states environment. The world remembers a music icon. David bowie losing his very private battle with cancer. Tonight the legend is being honored downtown. His music and images taking over viva vision on the fremont street experience. Though midnight. Mores Sean Mcallister shows us. How stars and vegas headliners are remembering the artist who made an impact in music, art and pop culture. Chchchchchanges turn and face the strange chchchanges changes and sorrow sweeping the globe after unexpected death of music icon david bowie. Broke the news late sunday night saying the singer died surrounded by family after an 18month battle with cancer. Bree says he had been sick and battling cancer for 18 months so he turned 69 on friday and that was the album release date which got rave reviews within a matter of 48 hours and then he literally passed two days later current and former strip headliners are expressing their emotions about the influential musicians death. Local band imagine dragons tweeting the entire world lost one of its greats today. Mariah carey saying that bowie will be remembered for his brilliance vince neil calling it a sad day at the loss of his musical hero. And caesars headliner matt goss who just performed at susan g. Komens National Fundraiser this weekend posted about the impact of bowies passing. Saying rip to the greatest rock icon in history. Bree says he is a true revolutionary as far as music is concerned. David bowie was one of the most iconic not only in music but he had a fantastic acting career, a fashion icon current chart topping artists from justing timberlake to lady gaga credit bowie with paving a brave and unique musical path for them to follow. Bree says his non conformity as an artist and his individualism really artists out there necessarily want to and they got a shining example of what is sticking to what you love and at the hard rock filled with bowie memorabelia serves as a memorial here in las vegas. There are no people that adopted any of his style. He whole career stayed unique chas says it was the last time he toured was 2004 and we were privileged and honored to have one of those dates in hollywood bowies star on the walk of fame is filled with candles, flowers and notes from fans. And overseas in london a mural near bowies childhood home is an alter to bowies life and career. With his final album just released on friday. Bowies 69th birthday. Its serving now as a farewell to fans whove been there for decades. Bree says the album is called black star and it literally was constructed as a parting gift to his fans because he was so private about his sickness a profound and somber song to say goodbye after giving the somber song to say goodbye world decades of entertainment that will continue to live on. David bowie was to be honored at Carnegie Hall in a few months. With a concert featuring the roots and cyndi lauper. Well be right we all think our pets are adorable. And many of us are guilty of taking way too many photos of our furry friends. But one pup has got it down. Say cheese this clearly isnt this dogs first photoshoot. On command he flashes his smile live from las vegas its time for fox5 news at 11. Eight people are killed on our valley roads. In just 48 hours. The family of one of the victims shares his story with fox5. More fallout from the boulder city animal abuse the latest on the