IN BRIEF
SUNSET PARK SLAYING
Man in custody in L.A. in LV stabbing death
Las Vegas police have arrested a man in a fatal stabbing last month at Sunset Park.
Leon Rumph, 45, was charged with murder with a deadly weapon in the May 6 slaying of 44-year-old Jack Albert Strosnider, homicide Lt. Lew Roberts said.
Rumph was arrested about a week ago in Los Angeles County and awaits extradition to Nevada, Roberts said.
Witnesses told police they saw two men chasing Strosnider through the park at Sunset Road and Eastern Avenue before they beat and stabbed him about 10:50 p.m. The two men fled, and the victim ran into traffic on Eastern, where he was nearly hit by a car before he collapsed and died in the roadway, police said.
INVESTIGATION CONTINUING
Man dies after falling in front of bus in LV
A 48-year-old man died Wednesday night after being hit by a shuttle bus downtown, Las Vegas police said.
The unidentified man was walking south on the sidewalk on Main Street about 9:15 p.m. He fell in front of the bus south of Ogden Avenue, police said.
The man was taken to University Medical Center, where he died.
The bus was driven by 58-year-old Robert Velasco.
The investigation continues.
BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS
New president picked for state health panel
The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners has elected Dr. Charles Held as the board's president.
Held, a pulmonologist from Minden, replaces Dr. Javaid Anwar as head of the medical board responsible for licensing and disciplining physicians, physician assistants and respiratory care practitioners.
The board elects new officers each year.
Also, Dr. Benjamin Rodriguez, a Las Vegas plastic surgeon, replaces Dr. Sohail Anjum as vice president, and Renee West, a public member of the board, replaces the late Donald Baepler as secretary-treasurer.
Baepler's seat on the medical board has not been filled.
The state's medical board consists of nine members appointed by the governor for four-year terms. Six members are licensed to practice medicine in the state. The remaining three members are from the general public. It meets quarterly.
The other members of the board are Drs. Cindy Lamerson, and Daniel McBride, and Jean Stoess.
SOARING PAST 100 DEGREES
Record heat blisters Southern California
Southern California roasted Thursday in a record-breaking, end-of-spring heat wave that sent temperatures soaring past 100 degrees in many areas, posing hazards for those venturing outside.
Woodland Hills reached 113 degrees by 1 p.m. Firefighters worked in extreme heat to corral small brush fires as a strong high-pressure system cooked the air from the central coast south to Los Angeles and San Diego.
The warming began at the start of the week. Officials in San Bernardino County linked the heat to the death of Joyce Sanders, 77, on Monday near the California-Arizona line south of Lake Havasu, Ariz.
The Arizona woman left her car to look for her husband Virgil, 89, on a day when temperatures hit 116 degrees on the Colorado River. The pair were found by a passer-by who stopped after seeing the empty car on the road.
It was unclear why Virgil Sanders left the car. He was taken to a Phoenix-area hospital in a coma and suffering second- and third-degree burns from the sun and ground contact, police said.
