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The nation in brief
May 11, 2024 at 3:41 a.m.
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports

700 workers strike at Las Vegas casino
LAS VEGAS — About 700 workers walked off the job at a hotel-casino near the Las Vegas Strip Friday morning in what union organizers said would be a 48-hour strike after spending months trying to reach a deal for new five-year contract with Virgin Hotels.
The Culinary Union Local 226 union authorized a citywide strike late last year, but it reached agreements with all the major hotel-casinos on the Strip covering about 40,000 workers before the end of the year, and with most downtown and off-Strip properties in early February covering another 10,000 workers.
Virgin Hotels filed Wednesday a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board ahead of the anticipated strike, accusing the union of failing to negotiate in good faith “despite our sincere efforts to meet and negotiate.”
Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union, told reporters at a news conference Thursday the complaint to the labor board had no merit.
“It’s unfortunate and sad that they’ve waited until the eve of the strike to even have that kind of discussion,” Pappageorge said.
Arrest made in ’01 slaying of student
ATHENS, Ga. — More than two decades after a University of Georgia law student was found dead in her burning home, authorities have arrested a man and charged him with murder in her slaying.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Athens-Clarke County police Thursday announced the arrest of Edrick Faust, 48, in the January 2001 killing of Tara Baker. Firefighters responding to a blaze at Baker’s apartment in Athens found the 23-year-old law student’s body.
Investigators determined that Baker had been killed and the fire intentionally set, and police had been trying to find Baker’s killer since then. The bureau’s cold case unit partnered with Athens-Clarke County police in September to do an “in-depth review and analysis” of the investigation, the GBI said in a news release.
The release did not indicate what led investigators to Faust or explain how or whether he and Baker knew each other. He was booked into the county jail late Thursday on charges including malice murder, aggravated sodomy and arson.
It was not immediately clear whether Faust had an attorney who could comment on the charges.
Oklahoma inmate unfit for execution
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a death row inmate is incompetent to be executed after the prisoner received mental evaluations by psychologists for defense attorneys and state prosecutors.
Pittsburg County District Judge Tim Mills wrote Thursday that both psychologists found that Wade Lay, 63, lacks a “rational understanding” of why he is to be executed.
“Given Mr. Lay’s present state of incompetence, the court finds that Mr. Lay may not be executed at this time,” Mills wrote in an order signed by defense attorneys, and state and local prosecutors.
Under Oklahoma law, inmates are mentally incompetent to be executed if they are unable to have a rational understanding of the reason they are being executed.
Mills ordered that Lay undergo mental health treatment in an effort to restore his sanity, which defense attorney Callie Heller said is unlikely.
Lay was sentenced to death for the May 2004 shooting death of guard when he and his then-19-year-old son attempted to rob a Tulsa bank.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is expected to issue a formal stay of the execution within days, according to Phil Bacharach, spokesperson for Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
“The inmate will receive the treatment necessary so that he can eventually be reevaluated and hopefully deemed competent to pay for his crime,” Bacharach said.
Snowslide victims’ bodies found in Utah
SANDY, Utah — Search crews Friday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier, officials said.
The men — 23-year-old Andrew Cameron of Utah and 32-year-old Austin Mallet of Montana — were killed in the snowslide Thursday morning in the area of Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range. Officials declined to release their hometowns.
Search teams uncovered the men’s bodies Friday morning, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said. The bodies were brought off the mountain via helicopter and taken to the medical examiner’s office, Salt Lake City police Sgt. Aymee Race said.
Three men were climbing up a ridge on a slope called Big Willow Aprons and were near the top when the slide was unintentionally triggered, the U.S. Forest Service Utah Avalanche Center said in its preliminary report.
The first climber was carried downhill on the right side of the ridge and partially buried. He was able to dig himself out, call for help and was rescued by midday Thursday. Race said they would not be releasing his name.
Cameron and Mallet were swept away on the left side of the ridge and buried, the center said. Weather and snow conditions prevented their recovery Thursday.

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