IN BRIEF

10 YEARS TO LIFE IN PRISON

Man sentenced in 2003 death of son

A Las Vegas man could spend the rest of his life in prison in the death of his 9-month-old son.

District Judge Michael Villani on Tuesday sentenced Jason Todd Murray to 10 years to life in prison.

The 35-year-old had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the July 2003 death of Gavin Ochadleus.

Murray summoned paramedics to his home early one morning, saying his baby was not breathing. He told investigators his son had fallen off the bed while he slept, according to court documents.

Doctors later found the boy had massive brain swelling and other injuries inconsistent with a fall of less than two feet from a bed to a carpeted floor. Doctors also found the boy had two broken legs that appeared to have been injured about a week earlier.

LAID DOWN ON HIGHWAY

Arizona man identified as Highway 95 victim

The 54-year-old man who was struck and killed Sunday afternoon on U.S. Highway 95 near College Drive was Dwight Martin Young of Bullhead City, Ariz., authorities said Tuesday.

The Ford pickup Young was driving ran out of gas, and as he was waiting for his passenger to get some more, he walked out into the highway, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.

Young seemed to be disoriented, according to witnesses. He then laid down in the roadway and was struck by a Lexus sport utility vehicle, authorities said. Young was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation into the incident was continuing Tuesday.

ENDANGERED SPECIES VIOLATION

Shop owner pleads guilty in rhino case

After lab analysis confirmed that shavings offered as black rhino horn at a Portland, Ore., shop were in fact genuine, the shop owner pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor violation of the Endangered Species Act.

Morteza Aleali, owner of Far East Trading, faces up to a year in jail and a fine of $100,000 for his conviction of a misdemeanor violation of the Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is free pending sentencing Sept. 4

Black rhino horn is not a horn, but a mass of fibers. The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland did genetic analysis that confirmed the sample was from a black rhino.

Black rhinos, which can go as big as 4,000 pounds, numbered in the millions in sub-Saharan Africa before the 1900s. They started a precipitous decline in the 1970s, and were listed internationally as an endangered species in 1980, according to Fish and Wildlife.