IN BRIEF
OPENING STATEMENTS MONDAY
Jury chosen for trial in videotaped sex assault
A jury was seated Friday night to serve in the trial of Chester Stiles, the man accused of videotaping himself having sex with a young girl and molesting another.
The jury, which includes three alternates, is composed of 10 men and five women. They were chosen over four days from a group of 200.
Opening statements in Stiles' trial are scheduled to begin Monday morning. District Judge Jennifer Togliatti is presiding over the case.
Stiles is facing more than 20 counts of sexual assault with a minor and lewdness with a child. His trial is expected to last more than a week.
21-COUNT INDICTMENT
Not guilty plea entered in tax fraud case
Joseph Prokop, a former National Football League punter and a defendant in a massive tax fraud case, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges listed in a 21-count indictment.
Prokop is one of three men charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States. He is alleged to have interfered with the Internal Revenue Service, aided in preparing false income tax returns and engaged in mail fraud. Alan Rodrigues, a former pit boss and casino owner, and Weston Coolidge, have already pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The men are associated with the National Audit Defense Network, a Las Vegas company that the U.S. Justice Department sued five years ago. The government estimated the tax advisory company had served 640,000 customers and caused $324 million in underpayment of income taxes.
According to the indictment, the company told customers they could receive tax breaks and deductions under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but the tax benefits were fraudulent.
Prokop, 48, was an NFL punter from 1985 until 1992. His longest stint was with the New York Jets.
NORTHWEST LAS VEGAS
Man shot, killed by LV police identified
The man shot and killed by Las Vegas police Wednesday night has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office as John Hampton Haines.
The 30-year-old Las Vegas man was slain after police responded to a domestic dispute in the 7700 block of Golden Talon Avenue, near Elkhorn Road and North Buffalo Drive.
Haines died of multiple gunshot wounds in what coroner's officials have ruled a homicide.
Las Vegas police said officers fired their weapons because the man had two guns and was attempting to enter his home. Police attempted to negotiate with the man for about 15 minutes before he rose from a sitting position and moved toward the house.
The names of the officers involved in the shooting had not been released as of Friday afternoon.
HENDERSON COLLISION
Victims of fatal accident named
The two people who died Wednesday in a Henderson traffic collision have been identified by the Clark County coroner's office.
David Carl Kane, 53, and Jared Matthew Wilson, 26, suffered fatal injuries when the pickup in which they were traveling was struck by a vehicle that ran a red light around 10 p.m. at the intersection of Lake Mead Parkway and Fiesta Henderson Parkway. Their city of residence was not known.
The driver of the other vehicle was treated for his injuries at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of drunken driving. His identity was not released by the Nevada Highway Patrol.
SOUTHERN LAS VEGAS VALLEY
Road crew worker killed by passing sedan
A 35-year-old man performing road work was struck and killed Friday on Cactus Avenue near Decatur Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
The man was working outside a utility truck and was hit by an eastbound sedan around 5:15 a.m., police spokeswoman Barbara Morgan said.
Morgan said the driver, 30-year-old Matthew Weber of Las Vegas, was on his way to work when he ran over several traffic cones blocking access to the left travel lane of Cactus Avenue.
The victim, whose identity was not released, was trying to unload a ladder from his truck when he was struck. He died at the scene.
TRACTOR-TRAILER RIG
Woman killed herself by stepping into traffic
The Clark County coroner's office has ruled the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer Monday on U.S. Highway 95 near Laughlin a suicide.
Las Vegas police said the pedestrian, 44-year-old Irma Rosales of Las Vegas, was hit as the truck traveled south around 5:30 a.m.
RED BLUFF, Calif.
Boy recovering after two-story tumble
A 3-year-old Northern California boy is recovering after falling out of a second-story apartment window.
Police in Red Bluff, Calif., say Logon Tosta was playing with his 5-year-old brother when he fell about 21 feet onto the sidewalk Wednesday afternoon.
Sandy Sagen of the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento said Friday that the boy was in good condition.
Tosta's great-grandmother said the boy had a cracked skull and could lose an eye.
LOS ALAMOS, Calif.
Six dead after SUV slams into tree
An SUV filled with foreign students swerved off a highway, slammed into a tree and burst into flames, killing six of the seven people aboard, California Highway Patrol officials said.
All but one of those in the vehicle that crashed Thursday evening near Los Alamos, 140 miles northwest of Los Angeles, were foreign students studying in San Francisco: four from France and one each from Russia and Turkey. The remaining passenger, a 30-year-old San Francisco man and U.S. citizen, was among the dead.
When the SUV drifted into the dirt median on Highway 101, the driver, Jeanne Ostrowski, 19, swerved to the right, Sgt. Ben Ruth said. The SUV then veered off the road and slammed into a cottonwood tree. No other vehicles were involved.
A witness helped the driver out of the burning vehicle. Ostrowski, who is French, suffered major injuries and is in serious condition at a hospital, Ruth said.
