In Reno, a man obtained $22 worth of merchandise from a 7-Eleven, successfully leading to the point of financial settlement. While the sum was modest, the method showed ambition. William Mitchell, 25, is said to have selected his goods at the Silverada Boulevard store and departed with unpaid items, which might have been the end…

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, thinking that certain substances ought not to be shared so freely, conducted a targeted investigation and arrived, by the usual combination of patience and paperwork, at one Jess Zimmerli, 42. He was taken into custody during a Reno traffic stop on April 23, which is a fine place to end…

At an hour when most decent trouble is asleep, a man in Las Vegas found himself in a spirited disagreement with a police officer near West Harmon and Arville. The officer, wishing only for a small courtesy, namely, that the fellow stand and not move, was met instead with what officials delicately call “uncooperative” behavior,…

In Sun Valley, two enterprising citizens, Lawrence Carter, 55, and Leasa Carter, 61, are invited by a grand jury to answer 69 felony charges, which is a number large enough to suggest ambition. The State alleges that they conducted a long-running enterprise that treated Medicaid less as a public trust and more as a public…

At an hour when judgment is usually off duty, a gray Ram 2500 came turning from Las Vegas Boulevard onto West Sahara and promptly forgot its manners. The truck declined to stay in its lane, an expectation so modest it scarcely deserves the name, and instead found the sidewalk, where pedestrians are known to stand…

In Las Vegas, where luck can carry a man farther than good sense, a rider on an electric contraption met a piece of architecture that does not gamble. The encounter occurred Saturday evening at Lourdes Avenue and Paseo Del Prado, a place where the road politely ends and expects a traveler to notice. The rider,…

On a Friday evening in Reno, where the lights are for entertainment and not instruction, a story came to a sudden and permanent close along East 4th Street. Police arrived near Lake Street at about 8:30 p.m. to find him suffering from a gunshot wound, an ailment that rarely improves with time. Officers and medics…

There are many ways to liven up a formal dinner in Washington, but most hosts prefer coffee. On Saturday night, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner opted for a more energetic course, reports of a suspected shooting that sent guests scattering faster than a free buffet announcement. President Donald Trump was unharmed, which is a mercy…

UPDATE: Brian Blaine Anderson, the man reported missing from Susanville, has been found deceased. That is the whole of it, and it is more than enough. In Susanville, where a man may step out on an errand and be expected, by long habit if not by law, to come back again, one Brian Blaine Anderson,…

There is a reason they call U.S. 50 in Nevada the Loneliest Road in America. Out there, the land feels unfinished, like the world stopped paying attention halfway through. And sometimes, things happen that refuse to stay explained. I was heading east, killing time and light, stopping whenever something caught my eye. Old fence posts,…