Frank Morreale stands behind the glass counter and pats his holstered pistol - a Smith & Wesson .38 special. He likes it because it’s light and it hangs on his belt the way a cell phone might - both unobtrusive and useful.
“Every time,” he said. “When Hillary Clinton announced she was running, I was swamped. [...]
Category Archive for 'crime'
It made Mills Lane famous. It began Mike Tyson’s journey from star to laughing stock (”I’ll eat his children!”). It’s the ear bite. And it happened in Vegas, baby!
Not to be outdone by it’s much bigger and richer brother to the south, Reno has entered the ear biting fray in a way that only Reno [...]
Nevada once had the designation of being called “The Mississippi of the West.” Some years ago, Nevada was considered a pretty racist place, complete with the fact that Las Vegas Strip entertainers like Sammy Davis, Jr. were not allowed to stay in the hotels in which they played due to their skin color. It’s not [...]
LAS VEGAS—In what came as a surprise to the world’s most respected Nobel Peace Prize winners, University of Nevada, Las Vegas researchers released a study today that definitely proves a phenomenon that, until now, was a mystery.
The scientists, at a briefing held on one of the campus’s dozens of lush, green lawns, announced that they [...]
After listening repeatedly to Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire”–backwards–a young child sent a grandmother to a Las Vegas hospital after playing with matches yesterday.
According to the Las Vegas Sun–a paper that’s simply too hot to handle, and not just because of its name–”a young child playing with a lighter ignited a small sofa in a [...]
I know I feel like doing this all the time. And why not? People are riding their horses on your property, so you have to act to make them stop. Why not just run their dog over with your car and claim it was an accident?
The only thing less shocking than the crime itself was [...]
University anthropologists rush to the scene
Considered a social relic by many, a mullet was reportedly spotted today in Lemmon Valley, north of Reno.
University of Nevada, Reno anthropologist Richard Andreson said he and his colleagues are on the case.
“We received a report of a mullet sighting at a local hardware store,” Andreson said. “A number of [...]
Sex offender tries to set off sex explosion at Nevada supreme court
Posted in Uncategorized, animals, crime, nevada, politics on Jun 30th, 2008
Registered sex offender, Christopher Lee Hollis of Fallon, was arrested last Wed. for allegedly trying to blow up the Nevada Supreme Court building in Carson City.
According to the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal, “during questioning, Hollis and witnesses said he planned an event that would ’send a message’ during the special session, public [...]
When cyberdouche first heard this story sometime last week, it was broken by a local TV station who purposely didn’t name the guy so that investigators could continue to do their jobs. Um, hmm. So, if cyberdouche was the guy who had ripped off a few million for gambling and, presumably, hookers, and the news [...]
Dude, burning down a Habitat for Humanity houe is retarded. I mean really, who burns down a house that is built by friends and neighbors and meant to help out the less fortunate? Apparently, Stead does. If only they can catch the scumbags who did it (they’ll likely brag it up at Sneakers or something), [...]