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NEW YORK (AP) — The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl while he was teaching her to use an Uzi say they feel sorry for the child. Instructor Charles Vacca's 19-year-old daughter Ashley tells NBC's Today Show that the family knows it was a tragic accident and something she'll have to live with. Vacca died after being shot at the range about 60 miles south of Las Vegas on Monday.
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — Two people have escaped with minor injuries after their helicopter crash-landed south of Gardnerville this week. Douglas County sheriff's officials say the pilot told deputies that he and his female friend had used the helicopter while fishing in the Carson River. When they lifted up off the ground after fishing, something went wrong and the crash-landed. The two were able to contact another pilot who flew them out of the area.
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick says two Sparks police officers were justified when they shot and killed a woman they believed was suicidal when she pointed a gun at them outside her home last fall. Sparks Police Chief Brian Allen also disclosed for the first time that the woman's daughter was shot in the leg by police, not by her mother, as originally reported.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials say there will soon be more hospital beds for psychiatric patients in Las Vegas, after state officials doubled the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rate for mental health treatment. The rate hike will allow Valley Hospital to add a 48-bed behavioral health unit by December. The Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital is the only state adult psychiatric hospital in southern Nevada and is usually full.
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