IN BRIEF

HOSPITALIZED AT UMC

Boy injured when bike collides with car

A 6-year-old boy suffered a head injury Saturday when the bike he was riding collided with a car on Williams Avenue in North Las Vegas.

According to North Las Vegas police, witnesses said the youngster was riding his bicycle at 4:30 p.m. in an alley near the intersection of Williams and Harding Street, near Las Vegas and Lake Mead boulevards, when the accident occurred.

The boy was in serious condition at University Medical Center, police said.

ELKO COUNTY CASE

Fire captain to stand trial in wife's death

West Wendover Fire Capt. Jeremy Loncar has been ordered to stand trial on allegations he killed his wife in January 2006.

The medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Anne Loncar ruled that she died as a result of constricted airway disease, or natural causes. But Elko County District Attorney Gary Woodbury maintains the Jeremy Loncar placed her in a chokehold and killed her. He said Loncar has offered contradictory, misleading statements to investigators about what happened.

Elko Justice of the Peace Al Kacin ruled Friday night that the prosecution met the burden of offering "slight or even marginal" evidence necessary for the defendant to be bound over for trial.