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Tribune/Debra Reid - Blood drawn from "sentinel" chickens is tested for the Western Equine Encephalitis virus transmitted by mosquitoes. The virus is harmless to the county's indicator hens in Spanish Springs, Lemmon Valley, Rosewood Lakes, Washoe Valley and Damonte Ranch.
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Mosquitoes are ready to feed in Spanish Springs and the Washoe County Health Department wants residents to be prepared.
Council members ponder their paySparks City Council members were recently surprised to learn that they were entitled to a roughly 4-percent salary increase — a scheduled raise that came in the wake of cinching budgets and waning ...
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Arrest warrants seek sparks pair in embezzlement
The Reno Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating Kathy Patricia Norman and John Andrew Douglas who are wanted for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of ...
The Reno Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating Kathy Patricia Norman and John Andrew Douglas who are wanted for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of ...
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Wild horse population becoming too much to support, BLM saysThe mustangs that roam the fields at the Bureau of Land Management holding facility in Palomino Valley are caught in a conflict between supply and demand.The Palomino Valley facility, located about...
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Poor air quality chokes the Truckee MeadowsAfter a brief transition into a stage two air pollution alert over the weekend, the Truckee Meadows has returned to a stage one alert as air quality officials warn against the dangers of the pollut...
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On Sunday, Ruby Carrasco of Reno was very happy to make off with “Last Chance Joe,” a miniature of the 36-foot smiling miner on Victorian Square, that she intends to put in the front entryway of he...
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Skylar Elander may be a real tough cookie with a short history, but when he fires away in Pat Benatar's 1980 hit, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," he closes his eyes, grips the microphone and tilts ba...
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Nick and Mary Dominguez sat under the shade of a canopy on Friday amid the crowd that gathered at the Sparks Marina for the 9th annual Fourth of July Star Spangled Sparks celebration. As hundreds o...
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While most people head out for area fireworks shows after work, Ken Lantis and his pyro crew have been working since Monday.
Lantis, owner of Lantis Fireworks, has sent out his team to prepare all...
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About 500 people filled University of Nevada Reno’s Joe Crowley Student Union Wednesday afternoon for president Milton Glick’s second budget crisis town hall meeting while worried students outside ...
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About 500 people filled University of Nevada Reno’s Joe Crowley Student Union Wednesday afternoon for president Milton Glick’s second budget crisis town hall meeting while worried students outside ...
national news
MIAMI (AP) -- Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm....
Tue Jul 08 13:45:29 -0700 2008
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick....
Tue Jul 08 16:40:17 -0700 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday....
Tue Jul 08 19:05:13 -0700 2008
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Duffels of police riot gear. Thousands of pens. Toys, water heaters and even dog houses. As floodwaters retreat across the Midwest, remnants of washed-out households are turning up in the muddy ooze miles from the families who lost them....
Tue Jul 08 12:42:10 -0700 2008
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a body a prominent software engineer led them to is, in fact, that of the estranged wife he was about to be sentenced for killing, pulling closer together the final pieces of a murder mystery....
Tue Jul 08 18:13:00 -0700 2008
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. (AP) -- Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing....
Tue Jul 08 15:24:27 -0700 2008
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) -- Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes Tuesday as a separate fire 300 miles north forced residents of other towns to evacuate....
Tue Jul 08 18:52:33 -0700 2008