Psychologist faces DUI charges; puppy dies in crash

CARSON CITY -- A Carson City psychologist has been arrested on drunken driving charges after she drove into parked cars and a street lamp, killing the puppy she held in her lap.

Sheri Skidmore, 53, was arrested after the Monday afternoon crash at West Nye Lane, a dead-end street.

Sheriff's deputies said Skidmore's Land Rover tore through two front yards, tearing up a 12-foot piece of chain-link railing that pierced its windshield.

Skidmore was holding her 5-month-old cocker spaniel in her lap at the time of the crash, deputies said. The puppy was killed from the force of the air bag.