IN BRIEF

INJUNCTION SOUGHT

Environmental groups try to halt Tahoe rules

Two environmental groups have filed a motion in federal court seeking to halt regulations allowing new buoys, piers and boat ramps around Lake Tahoe.

In the motion filed July 2 in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, the League to Save Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Area Sierra Club Group asked for a preliminary injunction to prevent the new ordinances from being implemented until the court decides whether they were lawfully approved.

In November, the groups filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the shore zone regulations passed by the two-state Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's governing board in October.

"This is no time to be adding more buoys and piers and ramps along the shore of the lake," said Rochelle Nason, executive director of the League to Save Lake Tahoe. "Tahoe is still very much in jeopardy of losing its famed clarity."

OREGON BABY SITTER

Nevada man appears in court in 1998 death

The suspect in the 1998 killing of a Southern Oregon teenager made his first court appearance Friday in Roseburg.

Dale Wayne Hill, 39, of Nevada, is charged with murder and kidnapping in the death of Stephanie Condon, whose remains were found along a logging road this year. She disappeared while baby-sitting.

Hill has long been considered the prime suspect and was recently indicted and returned from Nevada. He is from Dayton and was arrested in Lyon County.

Hill has maintained that he is innocent. He is due back in court in September.

Stephanie's mother, Christine, and brother, Martin, were in the front row of the courtroom Friday.

HUNDREDS OF BEES

World War II veteran recovering from stings

A Green Valley, Ariz., man who was stung nearly 1,000 times by bees was back home on Saturday.

World War II veteran John Pool says he's feeling "pretty good" now that he's back in his home in the community south of Tucson, Ariz.

The 84-year-old is legally blind and was using his walker to take his toy poodle Shadow for a stroll when he was attacked on Thursday morning. He says he tossed aside the walker and moved as fast as he could to get home, where his wife, Norma, used a hose to wash off hundreds of bees and then called for help.

Firefighters used credit cards to scrape away hundreds of stingers. After sending Pool to the hospital, they tore down a block wall where the bees had made their hive.

Pool was released on Friday. Shadow was also stung. She died.

CITATIONS ISSUED

Father, son rescued after falling off raft

A Los Angeles man who was rescued along with his 15-year-old son after they fell off an inflatable raft into the Snake River has been issued two citations.

Grand Teton National Park officials said 40-year-old Byron Phames was cited with not having life jackets and failing to obtain a park boat permit.

The pair floated several miles downstream Friday on their "swimming-pool style" raft with no problem until the side was punctured, leaving the raft partially deflated, park officials said Saturday. They were unable to reach the shore with the sticks they were using as oars.

Father and son fell into the water when the raft lodged against an obstruction. Phames was trapped underwater in a tangle of branches before making his way upstream to where his son was clinging to a logjam. Phames used his cell phone to call his wife, who called for help.