In Brief

CENTRAL VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD

Husband kills wife, self after Saturday standoff with police

A man shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself in a central valley neighborhood Saturday night, Las Vegas police said.

The man called police at 7:34 p.m. and stated that he had shot the woman and that he was going to shoot himself, police said. When officers responded to the call from the 3800 block of Maryland Parkway, the man told police he wouldn't come out of his home and would shoot any officer who tried to arrest him.

SWAT officers surrounded the home while negotiators tried to coax the man to surrender, police said.

SWAT officers entered the home after hearing a single gunshot and found a woman dead and the man suffering from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

He was taken to University Medical Center and died Sunday morning, according to police. The names of the two people were not released.

Investigators have not determined a motive in the case.

vanished june 4

Authorities restart hunt for missing Oregon boy, 7

Searchers have renewed their hunt for 7-year-old missing Kyron Horman over the weekend.

Multnomah County sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Mary Lindstrand told the Oregonian that authorities are following up on leads and tips. She would not say what led them to search for the boy Saturday and Sunday.

KGW-TV said that searchers are looking east of Skyline Elementary School in a rural area of northwest Portland.

Kyron vanished June 4 after attending a science fair at the school.

DECLINE IN NUMBERS CITED

Wildlife officials call off fall hunting season on wild turkeys

Nevada's 1,500 or so wild turkeys are getting a reprieve.

The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners has called off the fall hunting season on the non-native birds, citing a decline in their numbers from a combination of drought and predators.

It's the first such statewide closure on turkey hunting in Nevada since the 1980s, but it shouldn't be permanent, said Shawn Espinosa, game biologist at the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

The agency evaluates turkey numbers each year, he said, and a fall 2011 hunt is possible if the population rebounds.

"I would suspect that recovery may take a couple of years, though, and largely depends on weather and habitat conditions," Espinosa said. "A fall hunt in 2012 is probably more likely if we see a decent response in turkey populations."

Wild turkeys were introduced to Nevada in 1960, and the agency has released more than 1,800 turkeys since 1987.

The birds now live mostly along river corridors in western Nevada, along the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, around Paradise Valley in Humboldt County and in eastern White Pine County.

In Southern Nevada, they populate Lincoln County and Moapa Valley and the Overton area of Clark County.

Espinosa estimates Nevada is home to between 1,000 and 2,000 wild turkeys. Their predators include skunks, badgers, coyotes and mountain lions.

40-acre blaze

Boy, 14, arrested on arson charges in California wildfire

A 14-year-old boy has been booked on arson charges after deputies said he confessed to starting accidentally a 40-acre wildfire north of Los Angeles as he was trying to smoke marijuana.

L.A. County sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker said two 14-year-old boys from Saugus were detained just after the fire that briefly threatened about 50 homes was knocked down Sunday afternoon.

Parker said one of the boys was released after the other boy said he started the fire when he dropped a barbecue lighter as he was trying to light a pot pipe.

Parker said the second boy had showed up shortly after the fire started and tried to help put it out, but the two boys fled when they couldn't control it. Their names were withheld because of their age.