IN BRIEF

DUI, ACCIDENT ARREST

Man critical after being hit by car at a bus stop

A man was seriously injured Sunday afternoon after a motorist crashed into a bus stop on Tropicana Avenue near Mojave Road, Las Vegas police said.

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Ted Snodgrass said the crash occurred at 5:40 p.m. when an unidentified motorist smashed a Hyundai sedan into the bus stop. The motorist also hit another vehicle in the same crash.

The motorist fled east on Tropicana but was stopped and arrested by police 10 minutes later on a charge of driving under the influence, Snodgrass said. He did not release the name of the suspect.

Snodgrass said the injured man was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where his condition was critical Sunday evening.

U.S. FOREST SERVICE AWARD

Friends of Nevada Wilderness wins honor

A Nevada environmental organization has won the U.S. Forest Service's highest wilderness stewardship award for a group.

The Friends of Nevada Wilderness will receive this year's Bob Marshall Award for Group Champion of Wilderness Stewardship at an Oct. 15 ceremony in Washington, D.C.

In 2007, about 250 volunteers completed 33 wilderness restoration and monitoring projects, donated more than 6,000 hours of labor and saved the government more than $112,000 in costs, Forest Service officials said.

So far this year, nearly 300 volunteers have maintained wilderness trails, cleaned up graffiti in the Mt. Rose Wilderness near Reno and hand-pulled countless bags of noxious weeds.

CASE UNDER INVESTIGATION

Pedestrian killed, two hurt; driver arrested

The driver of a large sport utility vehicle is under arrest after allegedly running down three men at a San Jose, Calif., park, killing one and injuring the other two, police said.

Homicide investigators are trying to determine whether the driver of the white Chevrolet Suburban struck the victims intentionally Sunday morning. If so, the case could be handled as a murder, San Jose police spokesman Enrique Garcia said.

If detectives find the accident was not intentional, the driver will likely be charged with hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter, Garcia said. One victim was pronounced dead at the scene while the two others were hospitalized, one in stable condition and the other in critical, Garcia said. The names of the victims and the driver haven't been released.