A private jet carrying U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman’s flag-draped casket landed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.  A half-dozen family members, a flight of airmen, the base color guard and seven white-gloved Marines met the plane on the tarmac for his final journey home. The 2007 Pahrump High School graduate died January 15th while trying…

The FBI arrested a woman in Henderson on charges that she tried to vote twice. Roxanne Rubin, whose a registered Republican according to the Clark County Registrar of Voters office, is accused of trying to vote a second time on the same day. Miller said poll workers questioned Rubin when they found her name in…

It was nearing the end of the year and nearly half a year since I had last seen my son. Kyle was living in  Oregon with his mother while I continued living in Reno. At the time he had jus’ started what he called “school.” Actually it was a pre-school with a religious curriculum and he…

Fire officials say 29 homes have been destroyed by a 3,200 acre brush fire near Reno, that forced 10,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. Firefighters were able to stop the fire’s progress, but not before wind gusts of up to 82 mph sent it rushing through a valley south of town, creating flames up to…

A 22-year-old U.S.  Marine has died in Afghanistan.  Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman of Pahrump is the first Nevadan to die in overseas military operations this year. On his Facebook page Bateman listed his favorite quote as, “Ducle et decorum est pro paria mori.”  It’s Latin and translated reads, “It is sweet and right to die for your country.”…

When white’s settled Walker Lake in 1881, they noted the local Paiute’s didn’t own boats. A local paper, the Hawthorne Arsenal, reported it was “believed to be have been the only lake in the country near which resident Indians had no boats, and they had no desire for any.” Two year’s later, the Walker Lake…

On Tuesday, June 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order No. 11110, directing the U.S. Treasury to produce $4 billion worth of $2 and $5 bills. The bills, supported by silver reserves stored in the U.S. Treasury’s vaults, were issued without debt or interest. The seigniorage, or profit from coinage, went directly to…

Like all high schools in Washoe County, this week’s been Finals Week at Galena High School. It’s also been a week of unusual activity with the Secret Service on campus preparing for a visit from Vice President Joe Biden. Amid this activity, which allegedly entailed one male teen taken from class for uttering something inappropriate, students…

I can hear Jeff Foxworthy’s voice ringing in my head, “If you spend more on your dogs in a year than you do on your wife – you might be a Redneck.” Now, he didn’t really say this – but I did jus’ to make my point. Right before Christmas, our pit-bull, Roxy got the…

I wrote this with the intent of having it published in the Ramona Sentinel — but somehow it was overlooked. It’s fun to look into a time capsule — even if its only in writing. After the sun set through the beautiful stained glass windows of the First Congregational Church of Ramona, Miss Mary Conklin…