IN BRIEF

BOULDER CITY CRASH

One person killed, one injured in rollover

One person was killed and another critically injured in a single-vehicle accident Wednesday in Boulder City, Nevada Highway Patrol officials said.

The identities and ages of the victims were not released. A woman died and a man was airlifted to University Medical Center in critical condition.

Highway Patrol spokesman Kevin Honea said the accident occurred about 6 p.m. on U.S. Highway 93 near Pacifica Way.

A Toyota pickup was traveling south on the highway when it veered off the road and flipped over, Honea said. The woman was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at the scene.

Honea said he did not know who was driving the truck or whether the two people were wearing seat belts.

SAN FRANCISCO ISSUE

Ballot measure weighs high school ROTC

In this city long associated with the peace movement, some San Francisco teens are taking an unlikely stance: campaigning to keep the armed forces' Junior ROTC program in public schools.

If a school board decision stands, San Francisco would become the first city to remove a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. But supporters initiated an advisory measure on the November ballot. They hope it will persuade a new school board to save JROTC.

Board members who decided to kick JROTC out of town see it as arm of the military that reaches into schools, discriminating against gays by enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" mandate, and recruiting teenagers for an unpopular war.

Supporters view the elective course as valuable self-improvement -- teaching them discipline, responsibility and leadership skills they say they do not get in other classes.