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Washoe County and Waste Management will be offering residents two days to dispose of waste and unwanted goods at reduced rates or for free, depending on the item.The gesture is intended to try to reduce illegal dumping in the desert.
JACKPOT
A casino employee in Jackpot has arrested for allegedly threatening another worker with a steak knife.The Elko County sheriff's office says 22-year-old Rodrigo Romero was arrested Friday at Cactus Pete's Casino on the Nevada-Idaho line.
CARSON CITY
The Nevada Commission on Tourism has awarded 68 grants totaling more than $365,000 to help rural communities lure visitors.The grants are awarded twice a year to public agencies, such as visitor authorities or chambers of commerce. Grants much be matched in amount, either through local funds or in-kind services.
LAS VEGAS
Southern Nevada transit officials say they are again offering free bus rides to partiers in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and early New Year's Day.The free rides on all fixed-service routes are given in hopes of keeping traffic down and intoxicated drivers off the streets.
CARSON CITY
The Nevada Commission on Tourism has awarded 68 grants totaling more than $365,000 to help rural communities lure visitors.The grants are awarded twice a year to public agencies, such as visitor authorities or chambers of commerce. Grants much be matched in amount, either through local funds or in-kind services.
RENO
Luke Babbitt scored 22 points as Nevada held off Portland 78-69 Monday night.Brandon Fields added 17 points and Armon Johnson scored 16 as the Wolf Pack (8-5) improved to 7-0 at home this season.
LAS VEGAS
The head of the Nevada boxing commission ordered Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to submit to urine tests Monday as a way of trying to break the impasse that has threatened to derail their proposed March 13 megafight.Pacquiao and Mayweather must submit to the tests within 48 hours or face possible fines or suspension by the Nevada Athletic commission.
CARSON CITY
Justice Ron Parraguirre (pehr-ah-Geh-ree) will serve as chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court in 2010, taking over the position now held by Justice James Hardesty.Parraguirre's judicial career began in 1991 when he won a seat on the Las Vegas Municipal Court. He was re-elected twice and served until 1999, when he was appointed to the Clark County District Court bench by former Gov. Kenny Guinn.
RENO
Rick Kane, who played nine seasons in the NFL, has died. He was 55.Kane's family tells the Reno Gazette Journal that Kane died Friday of complications from pneumonia.
RENO
Gov. Jim Gibbons smiled when the judge presiding over what promised to be a salacious and sensational four-day divorce trial asked if Gibbons' settlement with the first lady was fair and equitable."Yes," the first-term Republican finally managed to utter, as if biting his tongue.
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