National news briefs

Illegal immigrant gets life in prison

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for killing a hot dog stand vendor with a pipe bomb hidden in a coffee cup outside a Las Vegas Strip casino in 2007.

Omar Rueda-Denvers protested that he was wrongly convicted before Clark County District Judge Michael Villani imposed a sentence determined in September by the same jury that convicted Rueda-Denvers and co-defendant Porfirio Duarte-Herrera of first-degree murder and other charges.

Mayor and publisher in N.M. get in fight

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — Police are investigating a fistfight between a New Mexico mayor and the publisher of the city's newspaper.

Police say Gallup Mayor Harry Mendoza and Bob Zollinger of the Gallup Independent each claims the other started the fight. Both reported it to police.

Sgt. Erin Pablo says the district attorney's office will decide where anyone will be charged.

The incident happened Wednesday outside a Gallup bank. The bank's surveillance video shows the two men hitting and chasing each other. It was about five minutes before witnesses broke up the fight.

Ronald Reagan's grandson arrested

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The grandson of former President Ronald Reagan was arrested Thursday for investigation of obstructing an officer who responded to his home after the grandson unknowingly tripped a silent alarm, a family member said.

Cameron Reagan, 31, was taken into custody in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, police said. He later posted $10,000 bail and was released, police said.

His father, Michael Reagan, a conservative commentator who used to live in the house, said his son accidentally hit the alarm.

"It goes directly to the police station," Michael Reagan said. "They surround the house with police cars because of who we are."

Michael Reagan said his son panicked because he didn't know what was happening.

Anti-Semitic plane passenger arrested

MIAMI (AP) — An airline passenger who yelled "I want to kill all the Jews" on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn't appear terrorism-related.

Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night after a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight returned to a gate at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade police said. After a confrontation with officers, Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.