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Tribune/Debra Reid - Sparks resident Natalie Jung, 5, checks out the pond at the Washoe County library system's main branch in downtown Reno. Indoor plants and natural light create the library's attractive environment.
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Director says Sierra View more likely than downtown Reno branch to close.
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A follow-up study being conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers examines the impacts of stress on educators and how they can cope to perform their best in the classroom.
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Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers refused to let snowstorms stop them from stepping up purchases for everything from clothes to appliances.
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RENO –– Republican candidates and public officials gathered at the Washoe County Republican Convention at the Peppermill Hotel and Casino Saturday to discuss their platforms for the election to tak...
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Washoe County School District Board of Trustees will decide on March 23 if they should apply for federal grants totaling more than $82 million. However one of the grants might require principals t...
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The annual Physicians’ Wives Rummage Sale is Saturday at the Livestock Events Center.
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A new three-day watering week schedule recently approved by the Truckee Meadows Water Authority Board of Directors shouldn’t be cause for concern for the water supply, even in the current drought, ...
national news
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridges and going door-to-door to check on students after three undergrads plunged to their deaths in the past month....
Tue Mar 16 19:51:30 -0500 2010
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind - not diamonds, gold bullion or Old World art, but about $75 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs....
Tue Mar 16 19:13:42 -0500 2010
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their loved ones in photos found in the locker of a convicted serial killer, police said Tuesday....
Tue Mar 16 18:49:12 -0500 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow dancing with each other because that could "push people's buttons," according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court....
Tue Mar 16 18:35:40 -0500 2010
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio hospital where she is being treated....
Tue Mar 16 19:35:32 -0500 2010
CAMPBELLTON, Texas (AP) -- A crowded bus carrying young families and spring breakers toward Mexico went careening off a Texas highway and flipped onto its side Tuesday, killing two people and forcing dozens of bloodied passengers to climb to safety through broken windows and an emergency exit....
Tue Mar 16 19:33:57 -0500 2010
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod....
Tue Mar 16 19:23:48 -0500 2010