PETITION SIGNATURES: Addition of names rejected

Police chief blames gambling for deaths

Days before he killed his family and then himself, a Michigan man endured heavy gambling losses at the MGM Grand despite already being in severe financial straits, a Michigan police chief said Wednesday.

Two days after the Nov. 19 losses, Jihad Hassan Moukalled returned from Las Vegas to his Farmington Hills, Mich., home, where he suffocated his three children, shot his wife and took his own life.
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Pigeons Preserved

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COLUMN: John L. Smith

Patrick Rummerfield's life has always moved fast, sometimes too fast. In September 1974, the fast lane nearly cost him his life when he was involved as a passenger in an alcohol-related auto accident.

State high court certifies results of Nov. 7 voting

CARSON CITY -- There were no arguments or recounts, but there was a little levity Wednesday, as the Nevada Supreme Court certified that George W.

Former Ohio man convicted in 1999 killing of Elko man

ELKO -- It took a jury barely two hours to convict a former Ohio man of first-degree murder in the baseball bat beating death more than a year ago of an Elko chef.

Deaths

Harold Anderson Harold C. Anderson, 82, died Monday. He was born April 18, 1918, in Melvina, Wis.

Judge allows talks on road to continue

RENO -- A federal judge extended a mediation deadline Wednesday in a dispute over a threatened fish and national forest road near Jarbidge, more than a year after he ordered the talks between the U.

POLITICAL PLACARDS: Deadline to pick up signs passes

Political placards remained in numerous locations Wednesday as the deadline passed for removal of campaign signs.

NEON THURSDAY: Have some jam on Thanksgiving

With a lot of people off work Friday, you'd think it would be a busier night on the town.

Second memorial to slain girl stolen

CARSON CITY -- Suddenly, the second memorial to Krystal Steadman is gone. Two days after a 4-foot wooden cross was erected along U.

PETITION SIGNATURES: Addition of names rejected

ELKO -- The final murder suspect in a string of violent deaths in Elko beginning with the May 1997 double murder at Domino's Pizza has pleaded to related charges before District Judge Mike Memeo.

Retired colonel named to post

RENO -- Retired Col. Charles W. "Chuck" Fulkerson, a Vietnam veteran who taught military science at the University of Nevada-Reno, has been named executive director of the Nevada Office of Veterans Services.

Teen dies after car crashes during pursuit

A 15-year-old Las Vegas boy was killed after the car he was riding in crashed while being chased by the California Highway Patrol.

Reno rail project gets $79.5 million federal loan

CARSON CITY -- Reno has been approved for a $79.5 million federal loan that Mayor Jeff Griffin said will let the controversial project to lower railroad tracks through the city proceed.

PHOTO: Closing for Turkey Day

Police chief blames gambling for deaths

Days before he killed his family and then himself, a Michigan man endured heavy gambling losses at the MGM Grand despite already being in severe financial straits, a Michigan police chief said Wednesday.

Self-defense claim rejected; jury convicts woman in slaying

Jurors determined Wednesday that a woman did not act in self-defense when she fatally stabbed her boyfriend at his Las Vegas apartment in October 1998.

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