Question: What do Santa, a clown, a platoon of police officers, and coffee have in common?

Answer: They were all at the Wal-Mart service center Friday morning.

The second day of the seventh-annual Holiday With a Hero shopping spree event kicked off at 9 a.m., with the volunteers being fed donuts and coffee. Santa and his Wal-Mart helpers stood prepped to welcome less-fortunate children and help pair them off with volunteers, who would help them spend their complimentary Wal-Mart gift cards.

AP Surveillance cameras captured the terrorizing actions of a gunman who sprayed the parking lot of a Carson City IHOP with a barrage of bullets before he stormed into the restaurant with an assault rifle, killing four people. The video from the Sept. ...

Instinctively, Jeremiah Mock reached down for the tourniquet he kept in the left cargo pocket of his Army uniform. But it wasn't there. This wasn't war - he'd been to war three times and survive...

A fund for victims and witnesses of the IHOP shooting on Sept. 6 has $78,000 in it, thanks to donations from IHOP franchisees across the country, Pepsico and individuals. But there has been little ...

Assembly Judiciary Committee Chairman William Horne, D-Clark County, is threatening to screw around with Nevada's gun laws in response to the Carson City IHOP shooting in which four people, includi...

6 when Eduardo Sencion walked into the Carson City pancake house and opened fire with an assault weapon. "I had not realized he came into the building. I thought it was a drive-by shooting." Mock served with the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan and had ...

11, 2011 in Carson City. An estimated 700 people attended the ceremony. By Sandra Chereb, Associated Press Three members of the Nevada National Guard shot in a rampage at an IHOP restaurant were remembered by their colleagues Sunday who offered ...

AP Photo/Cathleen Allison Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. ...

Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong released more details about the IHOP shooter Eduardo Sencion's weapons, including that he fired 60 rounds from an assault rifle that had been converted to a fully automatic weapon.

It has been three weeks since an gunman openend fire inside of the Carson City IHOP restaurant. Now, one of the National Guard members who was shot while having breakfast with friends talks about how she is recovering from the incident. Cait Kelley, 25, started Sept. 6 like any other day - that is until she got work and found out there would be a meeting at IHOP.

Raffle and silent auction items are being sought for a fundraiser Friday night at Jimmy G's Cigar Bar in downtown Carson City to benefit the victims of the Sept. 6 IHOP shooting.According to P.J. D...

AP From outward appearances, Carson City is returning to normalcy after eight minutes of terror at a family restaurant that left five people dead and seven wounded. But the emotional wounds are raw and will take much longer, if ever, to completely heal ...

Surveillance video from a restaurant adjacent to the scene of a massacre in Carson City last week records the dramatic sounds and some images of the one minute and 17 seconds it took Eduardo Sen...

A week after the IHOP shooting, investigators continue to piece together the last 72 hours of Eduardo Sencion's life in an effort to figure out what precipitated the Carson City man's deadly rampag...

A woman places flowers at the makeshift memorial outside the IHOP restaurant in Carson City where a gunman killed four people and wounded seven others before taking his own life.

Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, 1st Sgt. Roger Wheeler sent a text message to his co-worker and friend Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney."Please respond to me," he wrote.But he knew she wouldn't. She was...

Since returning from Afghanistan in April 2010, Paul Kinsey and Christian Riege both settled into full-time positions of leadership with the Joint Forces Unit of the Nevada Army National Guard i...

— Major Heath Kelly, 35, Reno, decorated field artillery officer, husband and father, commander of Joint Force Headquarters in Carson City, served in Iraq 2004-2005. Avid student of military history, known for his dry sense of humor. See story

— Sgt. 1st Class Christian Riege, 38, Carson City, father of three, served in Afghanistan 2009-2010, also served in U.S Navy for two years before joining the Guard. See story

— Sgt. 1st Class Miranda McElhiney, 31, Reno, owner of a small baking company, well known in the company for providing cupcakes for guard functions. See story

— Florence Donovan-Gunderson, 67, South Lake Tahoe. See story| Video

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As FBI agents combed through Mi Pueblo Meat Market on Wednesday morning, regulars at the store expressed disbelief that someone they knew to be friendly and quiet could be responsible for seemin...

One was an Iraq War veteran who loved military history. Another was an Afghanistan war vet and fitness buff. Still another would bring in cupcakes for colleagues when they gotpromotions. All of ...

RENO- The first ever playoff game at Aces Ballpark started out with a somber feel as the Aces observed a moment of silence and the American Flag flew at half-staff for the victims of the IHOP shooting that happened on Tuesday morning in Carson City.

The feel quickly turned to excitement as the Aces took the field ready to take on the Sacramento RiverCats in the first round of the Pacific Coast League Playoffs.

Sacramento and Reno both threw their best arms to start the playoffs: LHP Zach Kroenke 10-3, 5.89 ERA for Reno and RHP Graham Godfrey 14-3, 2.68 ERA for Sacramento.

Three patients at Carson Tahoe have been released to their homes after being treated for injuries from the Carson City IHOP shooting, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said. The other shooting victim there was transferred to Renown Regional Medical Center, joining three other shooting victims there.

Attached below are unedited recordings of 911 calls made during the shooting incident at IHOP on South Carson Street yesterday. Warning: strong language

Just before 9 a.m., the gunman stepped onto an IHOP parking lot from his blue minivan with a yellow %u201CSupport Our Troops%u201D sticker on it. He opened fire, then continued into the restaurant and marched resolutely toward a table of uniformed National Guard members before shooting each one of them, and fatally wounding three of them, authorities said.