IN BRIEF

EIGHT TO 20 YEARS

51-year-old man sentenced in 2008 slaying at intersection

A 51-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to eight to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of another man at a traffic stop in December 2008.

Ralph Fuller pleaded guilty in November to voluntary manslaughter with use of a deadly weapon in the Dec. 16, 2008, killing of 48-year-old Michael McDaniels at the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Owens Avenue.

Witnesses told Las Vegas police Fuller, who was stuck in traffic, exited a Nissan vehicle, walked up to McDaniels' window and fired multiple rounds. He then walked back to his vehicle and fled.

Authorities said Fuller and McDaniels were in a dispute over money to purchase drugs. Police said McDaniels fired a handgun into Fuller's mother's house in an earlier incident.

Fuller tearfully apologized to the victim's family before he was sentenced by Judge Elissa Cadish.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

Clark County shooting park expands hours of operation

Clark County's new shooting park is now open for public archery, shotgun and rifle-pistol shooting from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

About 178 acres were developed in the $61 million first phase, and the park will eventually expand to 900 acres.

Fees are $7 per day for rifles, pistols and archery, and $6 per round (25 birds) for shotguns.

The 2,900-acre park is at 11357 N. Decatur Blvd., near the Sheep Range.

For information call 702-455-2000.

RELOCATION EFFORT

Officials plan to round up wild horses roaming neighborhood

State agriculture officials say they plan to round up some of the 25 or so wild horses that have been roaming a south Reno neighborhood.

Nevada Department of Agriculture spokesman Ed Foster says the plan is to trap seven or eight horses identified as "habitual offenders" later this week and relocate them.

He also suggests that residents in the Damonte Ranch development follow the example of neighbors in Hidden Valley, where horses were fenced out and residents were educated about not feeding the animals.

But critics say the Nevada Department of Agriculture is chipping away at a problem it created when it didn't enforce laws requiring livestock on the open range to be fenced off from housing developments.

State officials say the agriculture department has always followed the law.

THREATS MADE

Las Vegas man sentenced to prison in extortion scheme

A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for leading an extortion scheme and threatening to hurt or kill several people if they didn't pay him $500,000.

Prosecutors say Brian S. Martin's victims testified Monday in federal court in Los Angeles about how he terrorized them.

Martin pleaded guilty last year to 24 counts of trying to extort several California residents. His co-defendant Travis Zipper was found guilty at trial and sentenced to three years in prison.

Martin intimidated his victims with text messages from multiple phones, hired a private investigator to visit a victim's house and threatened to kill or injure their friends and family.

Prosecutors say Martin and Zipper collected about $54,000 from victims and their families.