NORTH LAS VEGAS -- Stores inside a North Las Vegas business park were shut down while police investigate a suspicious object found in the area.

THe item was found just after 6 p.m. Sunday, outside a business near Decatur Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway. Some stores located on the north side of the business park were temporarily shut down, but businesses on the south side, including Walmart, remained open.

Officers removed the object just before 8 p.m. and concluded their investigation. The area has been reopened. Police are not at liberty to say what the item was.

Graduation rates have improved at turnaround schools, but test scores are another story.

Another crop of Clark County’s worst-performing schools are seeking millions in federal aid to reboot over three years, but other schools already deep into their $8.7 million improvement grants remain far from achieving the desired “turnaround” status.

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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- As Nevada legislators emotionally debated a move toward same-sex marriage, one lawmaker rose to his feet and declared, "I'm gay."

Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson says that he quickly picked up hundreds of new friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter.

His statement on the Senate floor late Monday night came after listening to passionate comments from colleagues as they debated Senate Joint Resolution 13, which would abolish Nevada's heterosexual definition of marriage.

Atkinson says he never considered his sexual orientation a secret. His friends and family knows he's gay.

Still, he says, "I just knew it was time."