Nevada AP News Digest

Monday, April 8, 2002 | 7:30 a.m.

Here are the top Nevada stories in sight at this hour for PMs of Monday, April 8. If you have questions about stories, call News Editor Tom Tait in Las Vegas at (702) 382-7440. For reruns, contact the AP Service Desk at (212) 621-1595.

HEADLINES:

Nevada ready to begin campaign in Congress to kill nuclear dump

Navy pilot's life remembered in Carson City service

Mills Lane stroke recovery: sipping red wine, annoyed by nurses

NUCLEAR WASTE:

Nevada ready to begin campaign in Congress to kill nuclear dump

WASHINGTON - For 15 years, Earl McGhee has been speaking up against a federal plan to bury the nation's spent nuclear fuel beneath a volcanic ridge he can see from his home in the Nevada desert. "Nuclear energy can be a good thing," McGhee, 74, said as he considered what he has learned in the years leading to Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn's planned Monday veto of a presidential order, which will send a decision on the Yucca Mountain project back to Congress. "At one meeting, I asked, 'What about a leak, or an accident?'" he said. "What about transporting it across country in this age of terrorism? We should not be leaving ourselves open." Opponents of burying nuclear waste in Nevada will give Americans a coast-to-coast crash course in the dangers of hauling radioactive materials - part of a long-shot lobbying campaign to kill the plan in Congress.

BC-NV--Yucca Mountain. 934 words.

By Mark Sherman.

Eds: PMs; A version is moving nationally.

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ATTACKS:

Navy pilot's life remembered in Carson City service

CARSON CITY, Nev. - Early in his U.S. Navy career, Jason Bayer chose "Griz" as his call sign, short for grizzly bear. But when Bayer's colleagues discovered that his then future wife, Anne, called him "Pooh Bear" in love letters, that was the moniker that stuck. Pooh Bear Bayer was remembered in a ceremony that drew 300 people to Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Carson City.

BC-NV--Pooh-Bear Remembered. 300 words.

SPORTS:

Mills Lane stroke recovery signs: sipping red wine, annoying nurses

RENO, Nev. - Boxing referee and judge Mills Lane is surprising his doctor with his recovery from a stroke a week ago. He still can't talk, but he's able to sip a little red wine, enjoy chocolate ice cream, laugh at "The Godfather" and get annoyed by his nurses, his sons said.

BC-BOX--Mills Lane. 440 words.

By Tom Gardner.

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