In Brief
TOWN'S BIGGEST FUNDRAISER
Arts fair attracts thousands to Nevada's first settlement
The 90th annual Candy Dance Arts and Crafts Faire in Genoa is drawing thousands of people to Nevada's first settlement this weekend.
Genoa Town Board Member Dave Whitgob says the parking lot at the Genoa Cemetery filled up in the first hour Saturday morning. He says they expect as many as 30,000 visitors by the time the event wraps up today.
The fair serves as the town's biggest fundraiser of the year. It features more than 350 art and craft exhibitors and food vendors, along with 4,000 pounds of Genoa's famous homemade candy.
The first Candy Dance was in 1919. Genoa resident Lillian Finnegan organized it to raise money to purchase street lights for the town.
MOTOR HOME CRASH
Lawyer says fashion model won't appear on drug charges
A Hong Kong fashion model won't appear in a Nevada court this week on allegations she crashed her rented motor home into a landmark arch just one day after she was arrested on felony drug charges at the Burning Man counterculture festival.
Rosemary Vandenbroucke, 28, won't attend a Reno court hearing Wednesday or another hearing next month, her attorney said.
"She maintains her innocence but is not going to have any statements about the case until it is resolved," Reno-based attorney Tammy Riggs said late Friday.
Riggs said she will enter not guilty pleas Wednesday in Reno Municipal Court on her client's behalf at the arraignment on misdemeanor charges related to the crash.
Vandenbroucke was arrested on Sept. 5 with a small amount of Ecstasy at the festival, which attracts about 50,000 people to the Black Rock desert about 100 miles north of Reno. She was charged with possession of a controlled substance and released on $15,000 bail.
The next day she was arrested again after hitting a fire hydrant and crashing a motor home into downtown Reno's "Biggest Little City in the World" arch, substantially damaging the 40-foot rented motor home but causing only minor damage to the arch.
NINE PEOPLE ARRESTED
Police use tear gas to disperse crowd rioting in college town
More than 400 people spilled out onto a residential street in the college town of Eugene, Ore., throwing bottles at officers, breaking car windows and tearing down street signs, police said Saturday.
No injuries were reported during the riot late Friday in the West University neighborhood, which was dispersed after officers used tear gas. Police arrested nine people, mostly on alcohol-related charges.
Eugene police spokesman Doug Mozan said it's unclear what touched off the rioting. The town is the home of the University of Oregon, which has about 17,000 undergraduates.
"It's a high-density residential area chock-full of student renters in some very large houses with basements (that) can hold a couple hundred people each," Mozan said. "If people start to spill into the street and get drunk enough, sometimes they engage in group-think. It was like a flash mob, almost."
SUSPECT SOUGHT
Eight shot, including one dead, in fight at L.A. birthday party
Authorities said eight people were shot, one fatally, and another three stabbed after a fight broke out at a birthday party in east Los Angeles.
Police spokesman Cleon Joseph said Saturday that at least one suspect is being sought in the shootings that erupted just after 2 a.m. at a house in the Boyle Heights neighborhood.
Joseph said a dispute escalated to the point where several people pulled out knives and guns. Police said earlier that 10 people had been shot.
Police said 22-year-old Steven Lopez died at the scene and two other gunshot victims were taken to County-USC Medical Center with critical injuries.
No arrests have been made.
Joseph said the incident did not appear to be gang-related.
