Late Monday night, under the moon that makes a man reflect on his choices—assuming he has time for such reflection—a lone pedestrian made the unfortunate decision to engage in a contest of wills with a locomotive near the corner of Wyoming and Industrial. The train, being what it is—large and impatient, and utterly indifferent to…

The bus hummed like a caged animal, sniffing along the rain-slicked road, headlights licking the blacktop. A young woman clutched the rail near the front, swaying with the mechanical pulse of the beast beneath her feet. “One return,” she said, her voice slicing through the lull of rubber on wet asphalt. I glanced at her—twenty-something,…

Missing Oregon Toddler Dane Paulsen Found in River SILETZ, Ore. – March 11, 2025 – The search for 2-year-old Dane Paulsen, who vanished from his family’s yard in Siletz, Oregon, on March 1, has come to a tragic end. After speaking with family members, Dane’s body was discovered deceased in the Siletz River earlier today,…

Speed, Spirits, and Sudden Stops Folks who took their time getting out of bed Monday morning might have found their breakfast a good deal more peaceful than those who happened to be traveling U.S. 50 at the break of dawn. The Nevada State Police found themselves occupied with the business that keeps doctors employed and…

Law Insists Otherwise It is peculiar that when a man finds himself in trouble, his first instinct is to remove himself from the vicinity of said trouble as hastily as possible. Such was the case with one Meccaion Fields, a gentleman of 26 whose penchant for unfortunate enterprises led him to the attention of the…

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, while most sensible folks were snug in their beds or snoring their way through another dream of untold riches, a more abrupt fate met one unfortunate soul in the parking lot of Dotty’s Casino. According to Lt. Robert Price of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the trouble…

How Not to Argue in Pahrump It is a fact that some men, when faced with a simple disagreement, will resort to the fine art of persuasion, while others—less burdened by good sense—will opt instead for a bullet. Marshall Barker, 37, of Pahrump, appears to be of the latter persuasion, as he now finds himself…

Late last month, a stretch of Highway 160 bore witness to a spectacle of such bewildering absurdity that it almost got mistaken for a traveling circus had the performers not been so intent on ramming, jostling, and menacing one another at considerable velocity. According to Sheriff Joe McGill, a poor unfortunate fellow found hisself harassed…

The wind came hard out of the east, driving sand and loose gravel like buckshot from a scattergun. It stung the skin, rattled against the rocks, and hissed through the sagebrush, speaking in a dry, restless voice. A man caught out in it would pull his hat low, turn his collar up, and keep moving,…

After taking a drubbing from Damonte Ranch in their last outing, the Wooster Colts came out on Saturday with something to prove. And prove it they did, though they kept the crowd on edge until the final out, scraping past the Fernley Vaqueros with a narrow 4-3 victory. It marks the fourth straight time the…