At the hour of 3:55 in the morning, when virtue sleeps, and poor decisions take the wheel, a Carson City deputy observed a motorcar proceeding north with one headlight out and the other apparently doing the work of two. The imbalance in illumination is often a metaphor for the driver, and in this case, it…

There are few things quieter than an open field on a Saturday morning, and fewer still that disturb it more efficiently than a body. Such was the improvement reported near Estates Road and East Patrician Drive, where a citizen, minding his own business, discovered that someone else had stopped minding theirs entirely. The deputies arrived…

Pahrump, being a quiet place where a man may usually mind his business in peace, was visited Friday night by a fellow who preferred to mind everyone else’s, with a machete. The innovation in neighborly relations occurred on North Leslie Street, just before ten o’clock, which is an hour traditionally reserved for sleep, not swordplay.…

Nevada has once again received its annual allowance from tobacco, $33.7 million, slipped under the door like hush money with a receipt attached. It arrives each year from the famous 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which was designed to punish cigarette companies for their sins, while rewarding states for noticing them. The Attorney General announced the…

Reno woke up on May Day to a parade of citizens who had bravely laid down their tools, their timecards, and in some cases their employment prospects to march for the dignity of labor. It is a fine old tradition, honoring work by taking the afternoon off and hollering at City Hall until it agrees…

In Carson City, where a man may still commit an honest day’s work if he can find the time and the paperwork, a young gentleman of sixteen has distinguished himself by declining idleness altogether. While lesser youths waste their days on schoolbooks and part-time employment, this one undertook a diversified portfolio of enterprises that would…

In Carson City, where the roads are straight and the expectations modest, a Reno man of 34 set out to prove that arithmetic is a flexible science, especially after dinner. A deputy observed his pickup wandering northbound on South Carson Street like a tourist looking for a moral compass. It crossed the yellow line twice.…

There are men who cannot pass quietly through life, and then there is Mr. Kenneth Francis, age thirty-six, who appears to have tried traveling with a full assortment of bad decisions so as not to be caught unprepared. It was a Thursday night in Washoe County, one of those evenings when a man ought to…

In Fernley, where a man may call himself a “teddy bear” and expect to be judged by his intentions rather than his hands, a substitute teacher gave a classroom demonstration that will not be featured in any respectable curriculum. The gentleman, forty years seasoned and reportedly soft of disposition, announced to his pupils that he…

In Nevada, where the land is flat, the sky is vast, and the truth is often elusive, there sits a patch of desert called Area 51. It is the only place in America where a man can stare at the heavens all night, and come away more certain of aliens than he is of his…