IN BRIEF

DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS

Charity opens shelter for men during day

A summer day shelter to shield homeless men from heat has opened at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada.

The shelter, which offers showers, cold drinking water, a television and restrooms to up to 100 men at a time, opened earlier this month at the charity's downtown campus at Las Vegas Boulevard and Foremaster Lane.

The agency is using a $150,000 grant from Clark County to operate the air-conditioned shelter from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day through Sept. 30.

Case managers will be working in the shelter. A free hot meal is served at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.

Catholic Charities' night shelter is open each day from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. year-round and can accommodate up to 200 men.

CONVENIENCE STORE THEFT

Authorities say they've collared naked burglar

Two years after a nude man was caught on surveillance tape breaking into a convenience store and stealing alcohol and weapons, authorities think they've arrested the naked burglar.

Adam Clay Baker, 24, was arrested Thursday at his residence in Cold Springs, north of Reno. He was booked on a charge of burglary in the early morning break-in at the Spring Mart in Cold Springs on June 26, 2006, Washoe County sheriff's spokeswoman Brooke Keast said Tuesday.

A number of cameras captured video of the "naked burglar" from the time he entered the building, sprinted through the business gathering merchandise and tried to disguise himself by placing a trash bucket over his head, Keast said

Deputies had questioned a number of suspects since the burglary but they were later eliminated because they did not match certain physical attributes, she said.

SLOW-SPEED CHASE

Alaska man clipped in DUI on riding mower

State Troopers used lights and sirens to apprehend a North Pole, Alaska, man suspected of driving under the influence after he led them on a slow-speed chase that covered several lawns.

The 20-year-old man was on a riding mower. Sunday's pursuit lasted about 200 feet and reached speeds of up to 5 mph before a trooper got out of a cruiser and told the man to stop.

Troopers received a call early Sunday complaining of an intoxicated man driving a mower. They said Wyatt Lewis's blood-alcohol content was 0.18 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Driving a lawnmower while drunk qualifies for a DUI charge. Lewis was also charged with failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer.

FOUR PEOPLE KILLED

Fire victim identified as NASA employee

A NASA engineer was identified Tuesday as one of four people found dead after a suspicious fire in an Antelope Valley, Calif., house.

Joseph Paul Ciganek, 60, lived in the Quartz Hill home that burned Monday, said Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter.

Ciganek worked at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center as a management systems analyst specializing in electronic test systems, said NASA spokesman Alan Brown. Dryden is on Edwards Air Force Base.

Sheriff's homicide detectives are investigating the deaths.

Firefighters found Ciganek's body in a different room from those of a woman, a boy who was about 10 years old and a girl who was about 13, Winter said.

Ciganek's body showed some kind of trauma, while the other bodies were badly burned, he said.

The woman and the two children were related to each other but had a different last name from Ciganek.