IN BRIEF

POLICE INCIDENT

Death of woman who was run over a suicide

The death of a woman who was run over by a Las Vegas police officer Saturday morning has been ruled a suicide.

The woman, Aleane Chari Sharp, 25, was hit on Decatur Boulevard between Sahara and Pennwood avenues.

A police spokesman said officer Anthony Cavaricci, who has been with the Metropolitan Police Department for two years, was responding to an emergency call with his lights and siren on when he ran over the woman.

Sharp had been lying in the road after being involved in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, police said.

The officer believed he had run over a dog or a mannequin, police said.

CHARLESTON BOULEVARD

Man struck, killed by car ID'd as valley teen

A man who died after falling into the street and being struck by a car Saturday has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office as Christopher Harris.

The 19-year-old Las Vegas resident was at a bus stop around 4:45 p.m. near the north side of Charleston Boulevard and Brush Street when, witnesses told police, he leaned forward and fell into the roadway.

A Chrysler 300 driven by Deborah Shields, 49, was heading west and was unable to stop, Las Vegas police said.

Harris was taken to University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

NAMES RELEASED

Valley couple killed in Colorado plane crash

The victims of a plane crash outside Kremmling, Colo., have been identified as Floyd Brooks Williams and Diane Lynn Williams, a married couple from Las Vegas.

The Williamses, both 51, were the only people aboard when the twin-engine Piper PA-60 Aerostar crashed Thursday on approach to Mc Elroy Airfield about 75 miles west of Denver.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Grand County Coroner Brenda Bock released the victims' names Monday. Bock says Floyd Williams was president of Brooks Corp. LLC in Las Vegas and Diane Williams was a registered nurse and director of a women's services group.

METROLINK DISASTER

Congress working to pass rail reform

Congress is hurrying to pass new rail safety laws in the wake of California's fatal Metrolink disaster that would limit hours engineers work and mandate technology to stop trains on a collision course.

The Federal Railroad Administration has operated under an expired 1994 law and it looked like Congress would end another legislative session without changes until 25 people were killed in the Sept. 12 commuter-freight collision.

Now lawmakers are scrambling to come up with a final deal by the end of the week on reforms pushed for years by the National Transportation Safety Board.