IN BRIEF

TRUCK VERSUS SUV

Pahrump woman dies on state Route 160

A Pahrump woman was killed Friday afternoon when the truck she was riding in ran into oncoming traffic, according to the Highway Patrol.

Cynthia Boykin, 49, of Pahrump, died at the scene of the 1:40 p.m. crash on state Route 160 near Blosser Ranch Road.

She was a passenger in a northbound Dodge Ram truck that drifted off the road before spinning back into southbound traffic. The truck spun into the path of a GMC sport-utility vehicle, authorities said.

Boykin was not wearing a seat belt.

The investigation was ongoing.

CARSON CITY DEPUTY TARGETED

Third suspect arrested in shooting incident

Authorities say a third suspected gang member has been arrested for shooting at a Carson City sheriff's deputy.

Gustavo Mejia, 22, was arrested Sunday and charged with suspicion of felony attempted murder of a police officer.

Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Mejia was the owner of a car from which a shot was fired at about 11 p.m. Saturday at Deputy Gary Underhill as he sat in his patrol car.

Neither the deputy nor the car were hit, Furlong said.

Furlong said the deputy was running radar when a vehicle with four people approached, and someone pointed a gun out the car window and fired.

Paul Perez, 22, the suspected of being the shooter, and Abel Rivera, 34, also were arrested over the weekend, Furlong said.

LIFEGUARD TRUCK INCIDENT

Sunbather awarded $141,000 in accident

The city of Coronado, Calif., has paid $141,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a 24-year-old woman run over by a lifeguard truck while sunbathing on the beach two years ago, records indicate.

Assistant City Manager Jim Benson said that city officials agreed to a mediated settlement with Sarah Bouvet. City records indicate the check was dated Dec. 12, 2007.

Bouvet was hospitalized for two days with injuries to her lower body after the right tires of a lifeguard's truck ran over her as she lay on her stomach near the Hotel del Coronado.

Bouvet's attorney, Perry C. Wander, said she "still has some minor residual physical and psychological problems."

Her lawsuit asked for money and a change in the city's lifeguard practices.

Benson said those practices haven't changed, but there is a "heightened awareness on the part of all the lifeguards that you can't assume anything."