The 40th anniversary of the first Nevada Highway Patrol trooper to die in the line of duty was marked Oct. 14 by those who worked along side him. Gary Gifford was shot and killed at approximately noon on Oct. 14, 1975. After robbing the Round Hill branch of the First National Bank of Nevada the […]
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A fatal accident on Interstate 80 is causing major traffic delays. The accident occurred about 2pm Thursday, with the road not expected to be completely open until after 10:30 tonight. Authorities are turning back or holding all traffic at the Gold Ranch exit just east of the Nevada state line. Only local traffic is being allowed […]
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By Joe Drape and Jacqueline Williams, New York Times The FBI has begun an inquiry into the practices of booming daily fantasy sports websites after players of the games and lawmakers made allegations of predatory tactics and questioned the use of inside information, according to fantasy players who said they had been contacted by investigators. […]
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By John M. Glionna and Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times When Lamar Odom was found unconscious Tuesday inside a Nevada brothel, he’d wandered far off the beaten path of adult entertainment culture, back into an analog version of an increasingly high-tech sex-play universe. Like Wayne Newton and mobsters wielding tommy guns, the antics of the […]
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The logger who died Oct. 14 while working in the Eldorado National Forest has been identified as Jeffrey Jones, 55, of Lincoln. Jones was working at a logging operation off Wentworth Springs Road on the West Slope. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s office, Jones “sustained fatal injuries from a log that fell from his trailer and […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Tesla says two Reno journalists trespassed at its battery-manufacturing property late last week before striking two security guards with a Jeep belonging to the Reno Gazette-Journal. The sheriff’s department arrested Gazette-Journal photographer Andy Barron on two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon. Tesla said Tuesday in a […]
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The two people who died in Saturday night’s plane crash were from the Bay Area. Conrad Yu, 73, of Oakley was the owner and pilot of the Beech 35 Bonanza. His passenger was Mary Choy, 66, of San Francisco. The aircraft was taking off from Lake Tahoe Airport just after 5:30pm Oct. 10 when it […]
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Police are searching for the gunman who shot a 19-year-old South Lake Tahoe man in the leg early this morning. The victim, whose name has not been released, showed up at Barton Memorial Hospital about midnight Oct. 15. Hospital personnel then called police. Officers tracked a vehicle in question to the rear of the TJ […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – Although it’s nice to be able to drive 250 without an electronic fill-up, all good things come to an end, as do all electric charges. The question of where to get a charge has been nimbly addressed by Tesla with the invention of their supercharger units with a DC […]
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A man was crushed by a log Wednesday while working in the Eldorado National Forest. El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received the call about 10am Oct. 14 regarding the accident off Wentworth Springs Road on the West Slope. The name of the man and logging company he was working for have not been released. Deputies said […]
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