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Nevada truckers go national

Brandon Hardy of Las Vegas was named the best professional truck driver in Nevada after winning the flatbed competition and receiving the highest overall score in the seven competing categories at the 2008 Nevada Truck Driving Championships in Reno. The annual event is sponsored by the Nevada Motor Transport Association, Inc.
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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 [...]

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Sparks earns yet another honor

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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One industry facing dire impacts from a slow-down economy and increasingly outrageous petrol prices received attention recently from none other than the real, true voice of quality American journalism: ABCNews.
The ‘News reports that Nevada prostitution is taking a hit from the country’s economic recession. Whorehouses, or brothels as some call them, are legally located only [...]

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Yes, folks, that headline is actually stolen right from the paper itself. I’m not really sure what I can say, other that to explain, perhaps.
“What was originally reported to be a body in the Truckee River, then thought to be a mannequin, has turned out to be a body.”
Ahh, the perils of UP TO THE [...]

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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 [...]

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North Valleys represent!

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), [...]

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