It was a dreary Tuesday afternoon—so unremarkable that even the weather seemed too disinterested to participate. The sun barely peeked through the clouds, as if it too had pressing business elsewhere. Inside Joe’s Discount Grocery, a beacon of mediocrity and freezer-burned ambition, Earl Thistlebottom was plotting the world’s least inspired criminal escapade. The enterprising fellow,…

Lawsuit Ranger Saddles Up for Another Round Nevada’s Attorney General, Aaron Ford, has again dusted off his lawsuit boots and joined the latest cavalry charge against Donald Trump. For the third time since the former president set foot in the White House, Ford has galloped into battle, waving his legal saber at the Department of…

Three Years Later, WCSO Still Stonewalling on Murder of Anna Marie Scott RENO, Nev.—The first thing to know is that the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) wants your help. Yes, you—the good people of Northern Nevada—are being called upon to solve a murder. But expect zero information from the authorities because, three years later, they…

CARSON CITY, Nev.—Joe Lombardo sits in the governor’s chair in Nevada. The trouble is, you wouldn’t know it unless you checked the stationery. He’s there, alright—hollow-eyed, pen in hand, signing vetoes like a bored substitute teacher crossing out wrong answers on a multiple-choice test. But governing? That’s a different matter entirely. See, Lombardo’s got a…

There’s a smell in the air, the stench of cheap lies and expensive cover-ups, the kind of bureaucratic rot that festers in the sun-blasted halls of power where men in medals and pressed uniforms wash their hands of another casualty. Another soldier chewed up and spit out, left to rot in a desert of indifference.…

RENO, Nev.—Here we go again, another spin on the flaming Tilt-A-Whirl of Nevada’s so-called justice system, where murder trials drag on longer than a bad acid trip. The ghost of Sierra Ceccarelli has been waiting eight long years for some reckoning, but the man accused of putting a bullet in her—one Paul Eikelberger—won’t stand still…

FERNLEY, NV—Dawn cracked as a cheap beer can over the bleak expanse of Lyon County, and by mid-morning, the long arm of the law had wrapped its bony fingers around one Johnny Lee Lawson, a 69-year-old relic of Fernley’s underbelly. The charge? A full-throttle violation of Nevada’s strict sex offender registration laws—a bureaucratic noose that…

Somewhere in the bureaucratic underbelly of Lyon County, a new beast has emerged, slouching toward the public with an unsettling grin—“Live Better Lyon.” It’s not just another half-hearted government initiative thrown together by well-meaning paper pushers. No, this is a full-throttle assault on the county’s rampant chaos, a desperate attempt to steer the ship away…

Wagon trains rolling westward had their share of trouble—raids from the Paiute and Shoshone, broken axles, sudden storms that turned the plains into treacherous swamps, sickness creeping through the camp like a silent killer. But the group of settlers Caleb Macready was scouting for faced a problem of a different sort. It had nothing to…

(Allegedly, Of Course) CARSON CITY, Nev.—In a development that will surprise no one familiar with the fine art of public discourse these days, a motorist allegedly pointed a gun at a group of protesters outside the Nevada State Capitol on Wednesday. Whether the driver was making a political statement, exercising his Second Amendment rights in…