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- Nevada Nat'l Guard Kicks off Solar Energy Project
The Nevada National Guard has kicked off a $17 million solar energy project.
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- Elko Imposes City Hiring Freeze
Elko is imposing a hiring freeze, but City Manager Curtis Calder says that if tax revenues continue to drop the city could still face a $200,000 budget shortfall.
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- Nevada Tourism Launches New Winter Ad
The Nevada Commission on Tourism has launched a new winter ad campaign it hopes will lure winter enthusiasts to northern Nevada and the ski slopes around Lake Tahoe.
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- Renters Find Scams, Not Homes On Internet
So, you're looking for a rental and you find what seems to be a great deal on Craigs List, $800 dollars for a 3 bedroom home in southeast Reno. The price sounds a little too good to be true, but when you email the apparent owner, he has an explanation.
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- Man Survives Two Gunshot Wounds, Police Look For Masked Gunman
A husband and father of two young children is recovering after being shot twice by a masked robber. It happened about 9:00 pm at the Sierra Discount Market on Highway 95-A in Fernley.
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- Fernley Store Owner Fights Back During Attempted Robbery
In a brave attempt to protect what is rightfully his, a Fernley convenience store owner was shot twice, but lived.
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- Gardnerville Woman Faces Up To 10 Years in Hit and Run
A Gardnerville woman faces up to 10 years in prison for striking a pedestrian with her pickup truck and leaving him injured.
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- Nevada Gas Prices up Slightly
Gasoline prices in Nevada rose an average 4 cents per gallon from last month, but AAA says prices actually fell in some areas around the state.
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- Furlough Exemptions Extended for NV Prison Guards
Nevada correctional officers and other essential prison staff have won another reprieve from furloughs mandated by the legislature.
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- Robbery Suspect Shot Brandishing A Toy Gun
Investigators say the man shot and killed by Reno police yesterday after the robbery of a northeast Reno market was "armed" with a toy gun.
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- Reno Hospital Postpones Flu Shot Dates
A Reno hospital is postponing upcoming seasonal flu shot events because it cannot predict when it will receive vaccine shipments.
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- New Gold Star License Plates
We've seen specialty plates here in Nevada for Lake Tahoe, the Reno Rodeo, wild horses, and organ donation. But beginning Monday Nevada has a new plate called the Gold Star Plate.
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- UNR Enrolls 9 New Merit Scholars
The University of Nevada, Reno says nine National Merit Scholars are among new students who began classes this fall, bringing to 25 the total number of national scholars attending the school.
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- Reno Renames Community Help Center for Tom Vetica
A Reno community help facility is being renamed to honor a longtime advocate for services for the homeless.
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- Fallon Air Station Officials Reporting Swine Flu Cases
Officials at Naval Air Station Fallon are reporting several cases of swine flu, and say they're responding the same way the rest of the community is.
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- Robbery Suspect Fatally Shot after Aiming Gun at Police
Two officers from the Reno Police Department are on leave after they fatally shot an armed suspect Sunday afternoon.
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- Humane Society Offering Free Pet Adoptions to Veterans
The Nevada Humane Society wants to give veterans and their families the gift of love.
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- Family Shelter Changes Lives
At it's one year anniversary, Reno's Family Shelter can claim some real success stories. - Sparks Police Looking for Stalker of Young Girl
Sparks Police have more information about a man who’s apparently been stalking a 12-year-old girl. Three times in the last month, the man has driven up to the girl walking to or from school and ordered her to get in his van. Every time she has refused.
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- Can A Plastic Key Prevent The Swine Flu?
A California company is claiming a two-inch long piece of plastic can help prevent spread of the swine flu.
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- Nevadans Await Benefit Extension
If you are one of the unemployed here in Nevada, you probably wonder if some of this money is headed your way. And you probably want answers to your questions right now.
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- Nonpartisan Voters in Nevada Continue to Climb
The secretary of state's office says more people registered as non-partisan voters in Nevada last month than those who registered for all other political parties combined.
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- Belt Resigns as Douglas County Democratic Chairman
Douglas County's Democratic Party chairman has resigned following his guilty plea to hitting his teenage son.
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- California to Nevada Waste Study Funded
A proposal to ship millions of tons of California garbage to the Nevada desert will have to pass federal scrutiny.
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- NV Chief Justice Hardesty Running for Re-Election
Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty says he will seek re-election next year to a second term.
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- About 8,000 May Qualify for Benefit Extension in NV
About 8,000 Nevadans who have exhausted unemployment benefits may qualify for extended benefits under a law signed Friday by President Barack Obama, according to the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
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- Seasonal Jobs Attract Even More
Traditionally at this time of year, employment picks up as retail stores add extra help for the holiday season. It's the same in this economy, only even more so.
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- School Nurses on the Front Line
When you think of school nurses you may think of temperature taking and writing hall passes. But these days school nurses are responsible for keeping Swine Flu in check on campus.
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- Fallon Man Gets 2 to 10 Years for June Shooting
A 19-year-old Fallon man has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison in connection with a shooting in Fallon in June.
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- Death Sentence in Sparks Killing Overturned
A divided Nevada Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence and ordered a new penalty hearing for one of three men convicted of robbing and killing a paraplegic woman in Sparks.
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- Heidi's Restaurant Job Fair
About 175 people showed up to a local restaurant in hopes of filling 21-vacant positions. Heidi's Restaurant will open its newest location on Damonte Ranch Parkway in December. Today it took applications for jobs like hostess, server and cook.
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- UNR Med School Professors Receive Grant
Two researchers at the University of Nevada School of Medicine have received a $10.2 million grant to continue studies into smooth muscle plasticity.
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- Locals Without Jobs Turn to Peace Corps
For many jobless residents in our community, the recession means a reason to rethink their career, head back to school, or simply start over.
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- For Better, For Worse, Forever
Loss of job, furloughs, even pay cuts, all are possibilities during this down economy. What you may not realize, those dramatic changes in income may prompt a divorced man or woman to go back to court and get a change in alimony payments set down in the divorce decree.
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- Getting A Loan Modification In Nevada Just Got Even Tougher
Hundreds of Nevada families, fighting to save their homes from foreclosure, may have received some bad news Tuesday.
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- Boreal Ski Resort Near Tahoe Open 7 Days a Week
A pair of days of ideal conditions for snowmaking in the Sierra and around Lake Tahoe last week has allowed Boreal Mountain Resort to open the slopes for skiing seven days a week.
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- NV, CA Delegations Sponsor Lake Tahoe Bill
Legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would expand the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act and authorize $415 million over eight years to combat the worst environmental threats to the Sierra Nevada lake and surrounding basin.
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- Reno Panel to Consider Digital Billboards
Allowing digital billboards in some areas of Reno will be considered this week by the Reno Planning Commission.
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- South Reno Residents Told To Buy Flood Insurance
Residents of a south Reno neighborhood are being told the homes they've lived in for years are now in a flood plain. They're gearing up for a battle.
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- Carson City Justice of the Peace to Retire
Longtime Justice of the Peace Robey Willis says he will retire in January 2011 after more than 25 years on the bench.
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- Veteran Reno Assemblywoman to Run for State Senate
Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, prevented by term limits from seeking re-election, has announced her intent to run for the Nevada Senate.
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- Appeals Court Judge Brunetti Dies
The United States Court of Appeals is mourning the loss of a Senior Circuit Judge, and Reno native.
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- Unemployed Reno Man Resorts To Poop Patrol
Desperate to find work during this recession, a local man has resorted to taking on one of the most disgusting, most hated jobs in existence.
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- Reno Man Settles Excessive Force Suit in Lyon Co.
A former track star at Reno High School has agreed to accept more than $100,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing law officers in Lyon County of using excessive force against him at a country music concert in Yerington three years ago.
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- Police Make 25 DUI Arrests over Halloween Weekend
3-day holiday weekends are often accompanied by drunk drivers, and police say this weekend was no different.
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- Police Release Name of Vista Rollover Victim
Police are identifying the man killed in a rollover accident on Vista Blvd near Alpland Lane in east Sparks early Saturday morning.
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- Prostitution Around Reno Takes Big Decline
A new report says prostitution-related arrests have plunged around Reno.
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- Halloween Howl Draws Dogs in Costumes
Check out some photos from this year’s Halloween Howl, an event hosted by the Shakespeare Animal Fund.
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- Southwest Apologizes To Mom Kicked Off Flight With 2 Year Old
A spokesman for Southwest Airlines says the carrier has apologized to a mother who was kicked off a plane along with her unruly 2-year-old last week.
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- Nevada Company Honored for Energy Saver
A machine that converts industrial heat into electricity has drawn several national and local awards for the Carson City company.
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