Carson CityThe following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:

We have previously written about the federal government's , a task force dedicated to rooting out health care fraud in several cities very prominently including Miami. In the last legislative session, the Sate of Florida also got into the Act.

With summer temperatures creeping toward 100, dog owners should leave pets at home while they run errands instead of risking their lives in a hot car.

Director of Corrections Howard Skolnik told the Nevada Indian Commission Wednesday he will make an exception to the prison system's new tobacco ban for American Indian religious ceremonies.

I was privileged to spend some time with Walter Cronkite once a year for 15 years when he visited the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I first met him when he came to dinner at our home in

Ability to own firearms incredibly important right

The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the petition for rehearing Chaz Higgs' conviction for murdering his wife, former state Controller Kathy Augustine.

There is still space available for a youth filmmaking workshop taking place at the Brewery Arts Center next week.

Obama: Withdrawal from Iraq by 2011

Unless the woman who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlis-berger of raping her files a criminal complaint, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office cannot open an investigation.

Trying to see through the day-to-day fog of the economy is tough, yet, at least by some measures, Carson City's future is a bit brighter than others.

The long journey to success for brothers Mitch and Khaled Abdelhady started in Jerusalem, and has taken them to owning a bright, shiny new building for their business, Unique Sounds.

Casino deal preserved(AP) - Opponents of a Sparks casino project backed by developer Harvey Whittemore lost Wednesday in a bid to get the Nevada Supreme Court to erase a controversial settlement that allowed the project to move forward.

About two dozen wild horse advocates rallied outside the state capitol complex on Wednesday to protest the Nevada Department of Agriculture's handling of the animals.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Whether California can stop issuing IOUs or continues to slide toward insolvency is in the hands of state lawmakers, who are being asked to vote on a complex budget plan struck by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the

CHICAGO (AP) - When Illinois chooses a new senator next year, voters will decide not only who wins an election but whether the overwhelmingly white U.S. Senate loses some of its diversity.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama, who has spent weeks urging lawmakers to embrace his health care agenda at White House meetings, is focusing now on a broader and more distant audience: the American people, whose qualms about his plan...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A New Zealand biotech company began a trial Thursday that will implant cells from newborn pigs into eight human volunteers as an experimental treatment for their diabetes.

The Nevada Commission for the Reconstruction of the V&T Railway will be permanently closing off through-access to a portion of the Carson River Canyon from a point approximately one quarter mile south of Highlands Drive in Lyon County starting...