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Tribune file/Debra Reid - Shoppers can find high-end fashion and accessories at Olive & Lolo's in east Sparks. National retail sales increased by 0.3 percent in February.
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Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers refused to let snowstorms stop them from stepping up purchases for everything from clothes to appliances.
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RENO –– Republican candidates and public officials gathered at the Washoe County Republican Convention at the Peppermill Hotel and Casino Saturday to discuss their platforms for the election to tak...
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Washoe County School District Board of Trustees will decide on March 23 if they should apply for federal grants totaling more than $82 million. However one of the grants might require principals t...
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The annual Physicians’ Wives Rummage Sale is Saturday at the Livestock Events Center.
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A new three-day watering week schedule recently approved by the Truckee Meadows Water Authority Board of Directors shouldn’t be cause for concern for the water supply, even in the current drought, ...
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SPARKS — Nestled in a neighborhood in Wingfield Springs, residents can expect a new neighborhood park on Lepus Drive come spring. At a cost of more than $317,000, the park will have grass fields, ...
national news
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter said in an interview released Monday they are still in love, even if their relationship turned into something "different" around the time he acknowledged the affair in 2008....
Mon Mar 15 09:10:43 -0500 2010
MIAMI (AP) -- On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, outcast. He wondered if he was going crazy; he contemplated suicide....
Mon Mar 15 08:19:27 -0500 2010
CHICAGO (AP) -- Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal....
Mon Mar 15 05:55:28 -0500 2010
LEADVILLE, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado woman who says she is the mother of an American held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist said Sunday she does not know where her daughter or grandson may be....
Sun Mar 14 14:12:23 -0500 2010
LONDON (AP) -- With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?...
Mon Mar 15 07:23:32 -0500 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet....
Mon Mar 15 09:09:17 -0500 2010
ALPINE MEADOWS, Calif. (AP) -- On a ridge near the 8,600-foot summit of Alpine Meadows ski resort, 17-year-old snowboarder Lucas Fuller scopes out the many chutes and bowls that radiate out from Ward Peak....
Mon Mar 15 04:05:50 -0500 2010