A Sparks man is accused in a large-scale mail theft and check fraud scam. Hector Salinas was arrested by Washoe deputies Wednesday after tips from area residents. Officers say they found multiple fake driver’s licenses, fraudulent checks, and stolen mail all in his car. Salinas was on probation at the time of his arrest.
A man faces DUI charges in connection with a chain-reaction crash in southern Nevada that left five bicyclists dead. Jordan Barson of Arizona told officers he fell asleep behind the wheel, but a tox screen showed a high level of meth in his system. He faces 12 felonies, including multiple counts of DUI causing death.
A Sparks man faces charges of child luring and lewdness. Dale Chibante, 63, is accused of initiating an online chat with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl, who was really an undercover detective. He was arrested when he showed up to allegedly meet the girl for sex.
Carson City Fire has a new ladder truck. Ladder 50 was commissioned Wednesday and is expected to be used for the next two decades. The state-of-the-art truck has a 70-gallon compressed air foam system that can extinguish car and dumpster fires. It can also assist in technical rescues. It lives at Station 52 on East … Read more
Truckee Meadows firefighters knock down an RV fire that had spread to a shed in Sun Valley. They were called to the 200 block of East Gepford Parkway last night. No one was hurt
A Reno man was killed when his SUV crashed into a school bus Monday on White Lake Parkway and US 395. Police identified him as 36-year-old Michael Highline. A few students on-board the school bus suffered minor injuries. Troopers say weather was a factor in the crash.
Rich Hancock reports on the arrival of COVID vaccines in Nevada; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-121720-HANCOCK-COVID%20Vaccines.mp3
Relief for frontliners in the COVID battle has arrived. Rich Hancock reports; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-121720-HANCOCK-COVID%20Vaccines.mp3
Front line caregivers are receiving COVID protection in Nevada. Rich Hancock has more; http://blogaudio.virtualnewscenter.com/KKFT-121720-HANCOCK-COVID%20Vaccines.mp3 [recorded copy] COVID-19 vaccine distribution is underway at Carson Tahoe Health for those in long term care facilities and healtth care providers statewide with the first of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine regimen beginning Wednesday. Carson Tahoe is also addressing the current … Read more
Washoe County’s Board of Commissioners abruptly pull a settlement agreement in a nearly two decade-old dispute with Lake Tahoe-area property owners. Commissioners were scheduled to vote on whether to hold the Washoe County School District responsible for paying back millions in taxes wrongly collected from Incline Village and Crystal Bay property owners. The Reno Gazette-Journal … Read more