IN BRIEF
RESCUED FROM SHELTER
Cats found in Pahrump going up for adoption
Nearly 50 of the 400 sick and starving cats found last month at a Pahrump animal sanctuary will be available for adoption today between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the Pahrump Nugget Hotel & Casino.
The Super Cat Adoption Event is by Best Friends Animal Society, the Utah-based organization that took over the For the Love of Cats and Kittens shelter after the animals were surrendered to Nye County Animal Control in July.
To speed the adoptions, people may fill out an application at http://network.bestfriends.org/nyecounty/news/.
The Nugget Hotel and Casino is at 681 S. Highway 160, at its intersection with state Route 372 in Pahrump.
Best Friends has promised to care for the neglected animals until all are adopted. The organization is requesting volunteers and donations to help. Those interested can visit www.bestfriends.org or call 435-644-2001.
BOAT LEAVES SCENE OF ACCIDENT
Man riding personal watercraft killed
A man operating a stand-up personal watercraft was killed Thursday after being struck by a large boat on the Colorado River near Needles, Calif.
The identity of the victim, a truck driver visiting Laughlin, was withheld until family is notified by the San Bernardino (Calif.) County Sheriff's Department.
Police said the man's 9-year-old son was on another watercraft nearby when the accident occurred about 3:30 p.m. near the Interstate 40 Colorado River bridge. The father died at the scene.
Police said the operator of the boat fled. The boat is a Fountain, 30 feet long, with a white hull and a black and red checker pattern. The boat operated by a man and with a woman aboard, was last seen leaving the Topock Marina in Topock, Ariz.
CITYCENTER PROJECT
Worker who died on Strip ID'd as LV man
The Clark County coroner's office said the worker killed at a Strip construction site Thursday was 65-year-old Las Vegan Harvey Englander.
The accident occurred just after 6 p.m. at the Pelli Tower at MGM Mirage's CityCenter project, as Englander leaned into the frame of a counter-weight system for an elevator to grease it. While he was bending over, he was struck by the counter-weight system, which severed his body, according to authorities.
State Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials were investigating the incident.
The Pelli Tower will be the main hotel-casino of the $7 billion, 66-acre CityCenter on Las Vegas Boulevard at Harmon Avenue. Workers have erected about 20 of the tower's 60 floors.
BODY PARTS PUT IN FREEZER
Arizona man sentenced to 11 years in slaying
An 11-year prison sentence has been given to a Golden Valley, Ariz., man who killed his longtime friend four years ago, then used an electric saw to cut his body into 13 pieces that he placed into a freezer.
Oral Nobles, 73, was sentenced Friday in Mohave County Superior Court in Kingman.
Nobles pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2003 death of his 30-year friend Kenneth Stuart, 71. He also pleaded guilty to fraud for his personal use of about $26,000 in Stuart's social security benefits.
Defense attorney Rick Williams said Nobles acted in self defense when Stuart attacked him with a baseball bat during a quarrel. He said Nobles killed Stuart by striking him in the head with a bag of bolts.
In March 2006, Stuart's rotting corpse was found in the unplugged freezer Nobles had placed in a storage unit in Wittman, Mass. The business manager made the gruesome discovery when searching the unit to trace the foul odor.
