City OKs contract to redo its website SPARKS — Visitors to the city of Sparks’ website can expect to see something new in the coming years. The City Council agreed Monday to pay local company KPS |3 Marketing $44,500 to redesign Sp...
Woman arrested for abusing her fiancée’s 3-year-old girl RENO — A Reno woman was arrested Tuesday for allegedly abusing her fiancee’s 3-year-old daughter. Melissa Buschette, 31, surrendered to Washoe County Sheriff’s deputies after the authorities wer...
City wants federal fire dollars and job leeway SPARKS — The city of Sparks is looking to pursue a $2.3 million federal grant to hire 11 additional firefighters. However, when City Council members voted to go after the grant Monday, they adde...
SPARKS –– The Washoe County Library System Board of Trustees is ready for a little help and direction from the community. Now, it just needs to find a few good bookworms. The library system will b...
PHOENIX (AP) -- Opponents of Arizona's immigration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge's ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law, and dozens of people in Phoenix were arrested after peacefully confronting officers in riot gear....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist....
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- More than 1 million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law....
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) -- A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a major Michigan river was warned by government regulators in January that its monitoring of corrosion in the pipeline was insufficient....
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and TREVOR TOMPSON 2010-07-29T16:25:47Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 10 years have passed since she gave up her pursuit of a degree in computer science, but Yajahira Deaza still has regrets....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The government's point man for the Gulf oil spill says preparations for an attempt to plug the gusher from above are going well enough that the timeline for the "static kill" may be moved up....