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When Your Genes Go to Market
23andMe, the widely known DNA testing company, has found itself in a financial pickle and declared bankruptcy. In response, attorneys general across the land are waving red flags, urging folks to delete their genetic data before it ends up in the hands of someone with fewer scruples than a coyote in a henhouse. Nevada’s own…
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Yerington Stumbles, Bounces Back Against West Wendover
The hometown crowd arrived expecting a battle, but they left in disappointment as the Yerington Lions took a rare fall, dropping a 6-2 contest to the visiting West Wendover squad. It marked the first time this season that the Lions had let their faithful supporters down on their turf. With the loss, Yerington’s record slipped…
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Churchill Takes Another From Fernley
The Churchill County Greenwave rolled into town Tuesday with five straight wins under their belt, and they left with a sixth, edging out the Fernley Vaqueros 11-9 in a game that kept fans on the edge of their seats. The victory was Churchill County’s seventh consecutive triumph over Fernley. Spencer Pryor put up a valiant…
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Lowry Stampedes South Tahoe
The Lowry Lady Buckaroos rode into their clash with South Tahoe with three straight victories in their saddlebag and left with a fourth. Outgunned from the start, Tahoe found themselves staring down the barrel of a 14-1 drubbing. For Lowry, it was just another day at the corral—this marks their seventh win of the season…
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Unraveling the JFK Files
Not the Usual Fare in News Sixty-two years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, becoming one of the most pivotal and controversial moments in U.S. history. Kennedy’s relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had already been strained, particularly after the disastrous Bay of…
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Dead Letter
I rolled in from the graveyard shift just as the sun was rising over the horizon. My bones ached, my eyes burned, and I wanted to collapse into bed and let the world spin on without me. But there it was, sitting on my doorstep like it’d been waiting all night: a package. It was…
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Churchill County Sheriff's Office Looking for Missing Man and Woman
The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance in locating Jayson Daniel for a welfare check at the request of his family. Daniel was last known to be in the Reno/Sparks area near the Peppermill Casino. Authorities report that Daniel may be driving a charcoal gray 2021 Ford Ranger with Nevada license plate…
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Beatty Folks Grateful Their Burro Woes Ain’t Camel-Sized
The fine people of Beatty sighed in relief when Beatty Disposal, under the grand and illustrious empire of C and S Waste Solutions, gifted them with garbage dumpsters. It put a swift and merciful end to a longstanding skirmish with the town’s real governing body—the free-range burros. Before these modern marvels of refuse containment, folks…
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The Great Nevada Gun Grab
A Lawmaker’s Guide to Infringement The Nevada Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, has decided once more to whittle away at that little phrase “shall not be infringed,” as though it were a mere suggestion rather than the unambiguous command of the Constitution. First up on the chopping block is Assembly Bill 105, a noble effort…
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Vegas' Tesla Torcher Tossed in Hoosegow
It appears the good people of Las Vegas have finally caught themselves a genuine villain, a man of mischief and malice, who took it upon himself to set fire to automobiles in the dead of night as if he were some outlaw poet raging against the modern world. Paul Hyon Kim, aged 36, was hauled…