Nevada drew little attention in the nominating campaign but figures to be a fierce battleground in the fall between the winner of the GOP nomination and Democratic President Obama. Front-runner Mitt Romney’s cruised to a projected victory in Nevada’s caucuses, earning a second straight win.  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Congressman Ron Paul…

Our firebase was set up about seven clicks from the nearest village, so it wasn’t unusual for us to get a request for medical aid when someone there was ill or injured. However the runner that appeared at the gate wasn’t a person anyone recognized, besides he looked a little to well fed if compared…

My friend came over to the house for a visit. He’s the only guy I know that can screw up an old saying up still come out making it make sense. We were talking about work, where he’s been having a difficult time with a new boss. I sat and listened to his complaints. At…

In a large, heavy-duty plastic box, labelled “brushes,” I have all my old combat field gear stored. As I was sorting through it, Kay came into the room and started asking questions about what this was for and what that was for. “That’s a flak vest — not bullet proof, but it is resistant, and…

Our ambulance had jus’ rolled up on the scene where a man had been struck and severely injured by a city bus. I got out and immediately started assessing his injuries. He was mess with both thigh bones broken, a broken arm, possible pelvis and  rib fractures and part of one ear torn from the…

I had been home a few minutes when my wife told me she had problems with the new set of headphones she’d planned to use the evening before to watch some television shows via the Internet. I didn’t understand what she was talking about. “Here, I’ll show you,” she said as we walked to the…

Did the now-extinct giant ground sloth live alongside native Paiute and Shoshone tribes? In 1930, archaeologist M. R. Harrington started working in Gypsum Cave, in the Frenchman Mountain Range. He found evidence of mankind along side deposits of petrified feces. Then he found the skull and bones from a giant ground sloth. Below these, he…

Its been a difficult day for people living on the Comstock as a historic building from 1876 is gutted by flames. The Seven Gables House at 98 Howard Street in Virginia City, was one of the oldest homes in Northern Nevada. It took crews from Storey, Carson City and Lyon counties as well as the…

Once again — the few screw it up for the many and in the true form of corporate punishment the many get screwed by a few. Common sense be damned! An Internet posting of a fist fight between students from Reno and Galena High has led Reno High’s student leader’s to cancel the schools’ Winterfest…

Asked once if I were to write a history of the Silver State, where would I begin? My answer:  Berlin, Nevada. That’s because long before it was a mining camp – and I mean LONG BEFORE – it was home to a prehistoric creature we know as the Ichthyosaur. In fact the area was acquired…