IN BRIEF
FAMILY ESCAPES UNINJURED
Garage fire damages home in Henderson
Henderson fire officials are investigating a garage fire that caused about $350,000 worth of damage to a home near St. Rose Parkway and Bermuda Road Saturday morning.
Firefighters arrived on scene about 6 a.m. and found heavy fire and smoke coming from the garage of a home located on the 3700 block of Via Di Girolamo Avenue.
Crews were able to contain the blaze within minutes but estimated the fire caused about $350,000 in damage. A family of three was home at the time of the fire but escaped uninjured.
CHILDREN STARTLED
Naked man arrested at Lake Tahoe casino
A 19-year-old man awaits a court appearance after being arrested on suspicion of running naked through the Stateline casino area on Lake Tahoe's south shore.
Douglas County sheriff's deputies say Sean Stanley Smith was arrested before a group of startled children in the Harrah's Tahoe arcade.
He reportedly told officers that he had used marijuana and LSD, and was running naked because he thought he was the "Terminator."
Deputies say the suspect was spotted running by the Pony Express statue outside Harrah's on Tuesday afternoon, and entered the casino after ignoring an officer's command to stop.
After a deputy used a Taser to subdue him, the suspect was covered with bedsheets and taken to jail.
He was booked on charges of indecent exposure and resisting a police officer.
UTAH CAMPGROUND
LV woman survives strike by lightning
A Las Vegas woman survived a lightning strike Friday at a southern Utah campground.
Washington County sheriff's Sgt. Danny Kroff said the unidentified 48-year-old woman was standing next to a tree that apparently was struck by lightning at the Pine Valley Campground near St. George.
He said the woman was breathing normally when authorities arrived but was taken to Dixie Regional Medical Center. Investigators found no wounds on her body.
The woman told authorities that she could feel electricity going through her body from her feet to her fingertips.
THIRD DAY OF SEARCH
Divers find body of missing boater
A missing boater has been found dead in a reservoir along the eastern Sierra Nevada.
Mono County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Beard said the boater's body was found Friday in Bridgeport Reservoir.
The boater's name was not immediately released.
Beard said divers found the body on the third day of a search after a boat was found anchored about 60 yards off shore.
During the search, a woman reported her husband was overdue from a fishing trip, and searchers received a report of a partially submerged boat.
An investigation into the death continues.
FATAL BEATING
Suspect arrested in death after fight
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the death of a 49-year-old man who died after a reported fight at an apartment in Windsor, Calif.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department said Arthur Marquez, 39, was being held without bail on suspicion of murder in the fatal beating of Dennis Dempsey Jr.
Police responded Thursday to reports that a man had stopped breathing after a fight in a Windsor apartment. Dempsey was pronounced dead at the scene.
The county coroner said Dempsey suffered a massive abdominal hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma.
