News briefs for February 5, 2002

Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002 | 9:23 a.m.

Car rolls over in Pahrump

Alcohol may have played a part in a rollover accident involving two La Paz County, Ariz., sheriff's deputies in Pahrump early Monday morning, Nevada Highway Patrol officials said.

The accident happened about 2:45 a.m. on Homestead Road, when the driver failed to negotiate a curve and drove into the desert.

The car rolled, injuring the 34-year-old driver and the 33-year-old passenger, NHP officials said.

The driver was taken by helicopter to University Medical Center, where he remains in fair condition, a UMC spokesman said.

The men were in town for a narcotics class, and the accident remains under investigation, an NHP spokesman said.

Motorcycle collides with tractor-trailer

A motorcyclist was killed Monday morning when he collided with a tractor-trailer on U.S. 93 near Boulder City.

The motorcyclist, a man whose name has not yet been released by the Clark County coroner's office, died at the scene about three miles south of the interchange of U.S 95 and 93.

The accident remains under investigation.

Shelter becomes an inferno

A homeless man burned to death Monday night when a candle flame used for light turned his makeshift shelter into an inferno, Metro Police Lt. Tom Monahan said.

The man and his girlfriend built a shelter from cardboard, carpet scraps and brush on Boulder Highway near Tropicana Avenue. The blaze started about 8:45 p.m.

Emissions must be cut back

The Environmental Protection Agency will enforce an out-of-court settlement designed to reduce emissions at the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin that have been blamed for the haze over Grand Canyon.

The decision requires the plant -- owned by Nevada Power Co., Southern California Edison, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power and the Salt River Project in Phoenix -- to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

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