Carson City sheriff's deputies arrested Michael Jerrod Jacobsen, a 25-year-old transient, at around 12:30 this morning at the 300 block of Hot Springs Road. Jacobsen was arrested for misdemeanor obstructing, misdemeanor drug paraphernalia, a felony parole violation, and a previously existing felony warrant.

Leave it to the Proscenium Players to stack the cards and place some outrageous bets beginning Friday, January 20. Celebrating their 47th season, the Carson City-based theater troupe will let the chips fall where they may during the murder mystery dinner “Dealt a Deadly Hand: Murder at the Carson City Casino Royale.” Check out the latest blog from the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Performances are Friday’s and

Normally a dusting of snow in my front yard would not merit a photo, but this has been anything but a normal winter. It's been two months since the last recorded trace of precipitation. Let's hope the storm forecast for later this week brings a lot more than this.

The action-thriller "Contraband," now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, stars Mark Wahlberg as Chris Farraday, a reformed former ace smuggler living in New Orleans with with wife Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and two sons (largely ignored) making home burglar alarms as a business.

Then his brother-in-law Ben Foster (Sebastian Abney) screws up a drug deal and Chris has to step in to save him and his family from the drug boss Tim Briggs' (Giovanni Ribisi) murder threats.