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Scenes from the Polar Express
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 11:10am

For the lucky 7,500 people who scored tickets on the V&T Railway's Polar Express this year, you are in for a fantastic treat. My wife Tracy and I took our daughter Mira last night, and everyone had a great time.

Perfect storm of conditions, circumstances fueled fire that burned 30 Reno homes
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 9:19am

One of the worst fires in state history was a nearly perfect storm of unfortunate luck, and unfavorable circumstances and conditions.

Ferocious winds, power outages, rocky canyons and gated communities were just some of the obstacles firefighters faced in the middle of a cold November night battling the kind of blaze more typical of a sweltering August afternoon.

Carson City free daily news summary for Nov. 22
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 7:05am

The Carson Senators beat the Bishop Manogue Miners 32-21 last night in front of their home crowd, and advance to the Northern 4A championship game on Saturday.

Austin Pacheco turned the game in Carson's favor after intercepting a pass from Miners quarterback T.J. Menning and returned it 72 yards for a touchdown. Dylan Sawyers rang up 144 yards rushing for the Senators.

Polar Express Carson City Train Sold Out; 7,500 tickets purchased
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 3:33pm

Six weeks after tickets went on sale, The Polar Express™ has officially sold out, according to the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.
More than 7,500 riders will board the magical holiday train on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the only officially licensed Polar Express event in the region this holiday season.

Crime Log for Monday, Nov. 21, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 1:03pm

Officers made several arrests this weekend.

Just after midnight on Saturday, officers, arrested Michael Hutchinson, 18, a Carson City resident, on a felony suspicion of using false identification to avoid prosecution and a felony parole violation hold from Lyon County. He was also cited for resisting arrested and minor consumption. Hutchinson allegedly gave the name of an older relative in an attempt not to be arrested. Total bail was set at $10,400, but no bail was issued for the Lyon County hold.

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Raggio biography describes how partisanship became warfare
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 12:31pm

The most unsettling observation of "A Man of His Word," the biography of former state Sen. Bill Raggio, is how politics in Nevada over the past 40 years has dissipated from friendly partisanship into all-out warfare.

When Raggio, now 85, started as a state senator in 1973, many Democrats and Republicans were friends who usually accomplished legislative goals through compromise.

By the time he resigned in January after his Republican colleagues ousted him as their party leader for the sin of endorsing Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, compromise was a dirty word.

Carson City unemployment drops to 12 percent
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 11:57am

Unemployment figures released this morning show the state's overall unemployment rate held steady at 13.4 percent, still the highest in the nation and well above the 9 percent national average.

Carson City's jobless rate dropped to 12 percent in October, down from 12.4 percent the previous month. In October 2010, the unemployment was 13.1 percent.

Unemployment in the Las Vegas metro area dropped to 13.1 percent, down from 13.4 percent in September. The Reno metro area also saw a drop, from 12.6 to 12.1 percent.

Full press release below.

Carson City free daily news summary for Nov. 21
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 7:17am
Students speak out in support of professor Tom Kubistant, whose human sexuality class has come under fire after a complaint by a student. They contradict Karen Royce's claim that they were required to masturbate. An independent investigator ruled that Royce's complaint was unfounded. For her part, Royce says she feels vilified for speaking out, and may appeal. Ron Knecht, member of the state Board of Regents and former Republican Assemblyman, says he's investigating this class, too, and feels it might cross the line between education and therapy.

That gives us an excuse to include the video again with the giant house cat or mountain lion walking in the background:

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Here we go again. The headline of this story says it's a Meet Your Merchant story about Hap-E-Dog Grooming, but the text of the story is about the efforts of the Carson City Chamber of Commerce to clean up trash and graffiti around the city.

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Here's a story about the city's biggest crafts fair that took place this weekend at Carson High School. The 17th annual fair attracted 120 vendors, filling the school with some early Christmas spirit.

Turkey Time
Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 3:56pm

Thanksgiving is a time when good nutritional habits are broken. Sweets and foods with high fat content and of course the fitness structure that flies out the window when your guests walk in. Everywhere you turn you are inundated with food ads. All your extra time is spent in the kitchen cooking or in the grocery store buying more food. Most people over-buy on Thanksgiving and over-eat.

Caughlin Fire still 80 percent contained
Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 9:47pm

Twenty-nine homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by the dangerous wildfire that blasted out of the foothills of southwest Reno on Friday.

Firefighters expected to have the 2,000-acre Caughlin Fire fully contained today, with fire lines cut around fire areas.

Evacuated homeowners were allowed to return noon Saturday, most of them grateful to enter homes firefighters managed to protect from the wind-whipped firestorm. Others found smoking ruins.

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