UPDATE 10:44PM: Multiple fires caused by lightning continue to grow in Douglas County on Friday night though homes are not immediately threatened, fire officials report. As of 10:45 p.m. the Preacher Fire has burned at least 700 acres, the Ray May fire, 40 acres and Buffalo Canyon 1/2 an acre. Sierra Front has described the Preacher Fire as moving at a moderate rate of spread.

The City Center aka Nugget Project ballot question will go before the Carson City Board of Supervisors for discussion on June 7.

The board last month directed staff to work on wording for a ballot question to seek approval from voters for a quarter cent sales tax increase to fund the project. Now that question will be coming back to the board to decide whether to place it on the ballot.

The proposed question reads as follows:

CARSON CITY – A leading candidate for the Republican nomination for the 4^th Congressional District seat said today a $17 million court judgment again him and his family is the result of fraud and not bad judgment.

Danny Tarkanian, one of several Republicans vying in the June 12 primary to face state Sen. Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, in the November general election, said the developer in the transaction took his money and used it for purposes other than developing a project in Anza, Calif.

A few more details have come to light about the recent arrest of Sean Alan Holloman, 28, for statutory sexual seduction with a 15-year-old girl.