IN BRIEF

TOURISTS' DEATHS

Arizona man punished for fatal crash in 2007

A northern Arizona man was sentenced to six years in federal prison for the drunken-driving deaths of two British tourists near the Grand Canyon in 2007.

U.S. District Court Judge Earl H. Carroll sentenced Philbert Watahomigie, 40, of Peach Springs on Friday.

Watahomigie pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the November 2007 crash on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in northwest Arizona.

OVERWHELMED SECURITY

Six stabbed as fights at concert venue erupt

Six people were stabbed as multiple fights erupted at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday, resulting in an oldies rock concert shutting down early, police reported.

Shortly after the KISS FM Old School Fiesta concert began at 5 p.m., fights erupted in the lawn area, police said. Shoreline security officers called in Mountain View police to escort disruptive concertgoers out, police spokeswoman Liz Wylie said.

Several fights broke out after 9:30 p.m., and police called for aid.

Officers from Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Stanford, Santa Clara County and the California Highway Patrol responded.

FRESNO CITY HALL

Backers rally for ban on gay marriage

Hundreds of people waived signs and rallied at Fresno City Hall on Sunday to show support for the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California, a day after thousands marched in the area against the ban.

Area religious leaders and politicians spoke in support of Proposition 8, the voter-approved measure that restricts nuptials to a union between a man and a woman.

Fresno Pastor Jim Franklin of Cornerstone Church, an organizer of the event, told the crowd that he thought Proposition 8 probably would survive any efforts to overturn it through initiatives on the 2010 or 2012 ballots.