IN BRIEF
NORTH LAS VEGAS INCIDENT
8-year-old bicyclist hit, killed by car
An 8-year-old boy died Friday after being run over by a car in North Las Vegas.
While police still are investigating, the driver was not cited and the incident is being considered an accident, said Mark Hoyt, a spokesman for the North Las Vegas Police Department.
About 1:30 p.m., the boy steered a bicycle out of a driveway on Maple Pines Avenue, near Centennial Parkway and Losee Road.
A driver had pulled out of another driveway two houses down and, although traveling slowly, could not avoid the boy, Hoyt said.
The vehicle's left rear tire ran over the boy. He was transported to University Medical Center, where he died.
The names of the driver and the boy were not released.
ARIZONA COLLISION
Lone survivor of helicopter crash dies
Authorities say the lone survivor of a mid-air crash of two medical helicopters has died at a hospital.
Officials at Flagstaff Medical Center say 36-year-old James Taylor died Friday. He was a registered nurse flying on a helicopter taking a patient from the Grand Canyon to Flagstaff.
The aircraft collided with another helicopter Sunday.
Authorities still are investigating the crash. The death toll is now seven.
SAFETY EFFORT
New law limits night driving by teenagers
Arizona drivers under age 18 who have had their licenses for fewer than six months can no longer drive between midnight and 5 a.m.
The Teenage Driver Safety Act that went into effect Tuesday is designed to cut down on the number of accidents involving teens.
The law has exceptions if the teen is with a parent, driving to and from work or a school or church function.
The law also bars affected drivers from having more than one teenage passenger who is not related to them in the car.
State statistics show Arizona drivers between the ages of 15 and 18 were involved in almost 21,000 crashes in 2006, leading to 106 deaths.
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY
Mysterious cat deaths raising concerns
Riverside County sheriff's officials in inland Southern California are concerned that a cat killer might be on the loose after investigating the suspicious deaths of three cats, bringing the total to six mysteriously found gutted, mutilated or shot in recent weeks in the Palm Springs desert area.
Lt. Raymond Gregory, a Sheriff's Department spokesman, said investigators believe the first three cat slayings, which took place in the northern part of upscale La Quinta, are linked.
He said in those cases the gutted cats had not been attacked by an animal. Gregory said it was less clear whether animals could have killed the cats found more recently.
