IN BRIEF
motorcyclist killed in arizona
Laughlin River Run attracts
thousands in 28th year
Police are reporting no major disturbances at the 28th annual Laughlin River Run about 100 miles south of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police Sgt. Andrew Walsh said an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people have gathered for the weekend event billed as the largest ride-in motorcycle rally in the West.
Tourism officials say attendance was about 33,600 last year.
Boulder City fire spokesman Larry Tunforss said a motorcyclist was killed Saturday in a crash on Highway 68 about eight miles east of Bullhead City, Ariz.
He says this year's rally has attracted about half the normal number of vendors in casino parking lots due to the poor economy.
The rally in the Colorado River resort town of Laughlin was marred by a fatal biker gang brawl in 2002.
danger to residents
Black bear will be euthanized
after capture in Carson City
A black bear kept officials busy for more than three hours Saturday in Carson City before it was captured.
Authorities said the bear went up a tree off Colorado Street near Seeliger Elementary School and stayed in it until a branch under its feet gave way and it slid down.
Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Carl Lackey said the animal will be euthanized because it's the third time it has been caught in a neighborhood and it poses a danger to residents .
Pioneer trail area
BLM buys nearly 1,300 acres
along Reno conservation area
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has acquired nearly 1,300 acres of land around the Black Rock Desert National Conservation Area north of Reno.
The agency purchased the property from private land owners for an undisclosed sum, using money from public land sales in Southern Nevada.
The purchase covers land in the Little High Rock Canyon, Poodle Mountain and Hardin City areas.
BLM officials said the acquisition would help protect landscapes along the Applegate-Lassen Trail traversed by thousands of covered-wagon pioneers in the 19th century.
