Las Vegas police will pay almost 1.5 (M) Million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit alleging a cover-up after an officer's wife hit and killed a bicyclist in 1994.

The lawsuit alleged that 26-year-old Janet Wagner had been drinking -- but that her police officer husband and others delayed contacting the N-H-P. Sheriff Douglas Gillespie says Wagner wasn't at fault -- but that the record-setting settlement addresses the appearance that she got preferential treatment.